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B R Jennings1, P J Rudd, D R Waterman
1Physics Department, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, UK.
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
|June 2, 2005
Abstract:
Electrically induced birefringence is increasingly used as a fast procedure to characterise the size, shape, polarisation and charge parameters of colloids and their interactions. By considering the optical apparatus generally used, attention is drawn to the significant errors that can arise in such experiments if optical component selection and setting are not critically considered.
