OBSERVATION OF BOND-ORIENTATIONAL ORDER IN FLOATING AND TRANSFERRED MONOLAYERS WITH BREWSTER-ANGLE MICROSCOPY

Authors
OVERBECK GA HONIG D WOLTHAUS L GNADE M MOBIUS D
Citation
Ga. Overbeck et al., OBSERVATION OF BOND-ORIENTATIONAL ORDER IN FLOATING AND TRANSFERRED MONOLAYERS WITH BREWSTER-ANGLE MICROSCOPY, Thin solid films, 242(1-2), 1994, pp. 26-32
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied","Material Science","Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Thin solid films → ACNP
ISSN journal
00406090
Volume
242
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
26 - 32
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-6090(1994)242:1-2<26:OOBOIF>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Brewster angle microscopy facilitates the observation of optical aniso tropy in monolayers and multilayers of long-chain amphiphilic molecule s. With new model calculations based on the 4 x 4 matrix formulation o f Berreman we were able to distinguish between optical anisotropy indu ced by chain tilt and that caused by orthorhombic lattices. Thus long- range bond orientational order in monolayers and multilayers in a rang e of 100 mum could be identified.