SCATTERING CELL-BASED ON FERROELECTRIC NM-PARTICLE SUSPENSIONS

A new kind of stable suspensions of nm-ferroelectric particles has bee n prepared using chemical precipitation and adapted stabilizers. We ob serve both a field-induced decrease and enhancement of the transparenc y but under different field conditions, which we connect with differen t kinds of agglomerates. A factorial separation of the transparency, i .e. into Kerr activity and field-induced opaqueness and the use of rat e equations for the calculation of the agglomerate number densities ap pears to be possible.