Dsp. Smith et Bm. Law, ELLIPSOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SURFACE AMPLITUDE RATIO NEAR A CRITICAL END-POINT, The Journal of chemical physics, 99(12), 1993, pp. 9836-9841
We present the experimental determination of a universal surface ampli
tude ratio near a critical end point. From ellipsometric measurements
on five critical binary liquid mixtures, three with an upper critical
point and two with a lower critical point, we obtain a value for the m
odified critical adsorption amplitude ratio of R(ma) = 1.18 +/- 0. 13,
where the error represents three standard deviations. Reasonable agre
ement is obtained with the theoretical results of H. W. Diehl and A4.
Smock [Phys. Rev. B 47, 5841 (1993)], from which we obtain R(ma) = 1.3
3.