Microscope at the Brewster angle : Direct observation of first‐order phase transitions in monolayers

Sylvie Hénon (1) , Jacques Meunier (1, 2)

1 LPS - Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS
2 MSC - Matière et Systèmes Complexes

A microscope employing the characteristics of the reflection at the Brewster angle has been built for the study of first‐order phase transitions in monolayers and the growth of two‐dimensional domains without adding fluorescent impurities. It takes about 2.4 s to constitute an image.

Domaines: Biophysique [physics.bio-ph]

Sylvie Hénon, Jacques Meunier. Microscope at the Brewster angle : Direct observation of first‐order phase transitions in monolayers. Review of Scientific Instruments, 1991, 62 (4), pp.936-939. ⟨10.1063/1.1142032⟩. ⟨hal-03876112⟩