An Empirical Correction for Moderate Multiple Scattering in Super-Heterodyne Light Scattering

Frequency domain super-heterodyne laser light scattering is utilized in a low angle integral measurement configuration to determine flow and diffusion in charged sphere suspensions showing moderate to strong multiple scattering. We introduce an empirical correction to subtract the multiple scatterin...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2017-04
Hauptverfasser: Botin, Denis, Ludmilla Marota Mapa Holger Schweinfurth, Sieber, Bastian, Wittenberg, Christopher, Palberg, Thomas
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Zusammenfassung:Frequency domain super-heterodyne laser light scattering is utilized in a low angle integral measurement configuration to determine flow and diffusion in charged sphere suspensions showing moderate to strong multiple scattering. We introduce an empirical correction to subtract the multiple scattering background and isolate the singly scattered light. We demonstrate the excellent feasibility of this simple approach for turbid suspensions of transmittance T>0.4. We study the particle concentration dependence of the electro-kinetic mobility in low salt aqueous suspension over an extended concentration regime and observe a maximum at intermediate concentrations. We further use our scheme for measurements of the self-diffusion coefficients in the fluid samples in the absence or presence of shear, as well as in polycrystalline samples during crystallization and coarsening. We discuss the scope and limits of our approach as well as possible future applications.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1607.02968