| Language: | English |
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| Type: | Article |
| Authors: | Sadaatsu Mukai, Nobuyuki Magome, Hiroyuki Kitahata and Kenichi Yoshikawa |
| Journal: | Applied Physics Letters |
| ISSN: | 0003-6951 |
| Volume: | 83 |
| Number: | 13 |
| Month: | 9 |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Actual year: | 2003 |
| Pages: | 2557-2559 |
| doi: | 10.1063/1.1613795 |
| Abstract: | We found that a focused laser can generate microscopic phase separation in an oil/water system. An oil droplet emerges and grows at the focus of the laser in a water-rich homogeneous medium. In contrast, in an oil-rich homogeneous phase, water droplets spring out in a successive manner from the focus of the laser, move away, and disappear in the surroundings, forming a flower-like pattern. The mechanism of this dynamic phase separation is discussed under the framework of the mean field theory. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics. |
Sadaatsu Mukai, Nobuyuki Magome, Hiroyuki Kitahata and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Applied Physics Letters, 83, 2557-2559 (2003)