Domain coarsening in electroconvection

We report on experimental measurements of the growth of regular domains evo lving from an irregular pattern in electroconvection. The late-time growth of the domains is consistent with the size of the domains scaling as tn. We use two isotropic measurements of the domain size: the structure factor an d the domain wall length. Measurements using the structure factor are consi stent with t(1/5) growth. Measurements using the domain wall length are con sistent with t(1/4) growth. One source of this discrepancy is the fact that the distribution of local wave numbers is approximately independent of the domain size. In addition, we measure the anisotropy of the growing domains .