Scattering experiments for the microscopic understanding of the glass transition

@article{bartsch95, abstract = {Scattering experiments studying the dynamics of glass-forming systems have become of special importance for understanding glass transition phenomena. They monitor the density autocorrelation function which has become a key observable since it is calculated within a new concept of the glass transition, the mode coupling theory (MCT). After a short reference to the main predictions and examples of scattering experiments where these phenomena have been observed, results for two model systems will be analyzed with MCT: a recently reported analysis of neutron scattering data for orthoterphenyl in the [beta]-regime is improved and photon correlation spectroscopy data on colloidal spheres are described by simultaneously analyzing the [beta]- and [alpha]-relaxation dynamics using the MCT scaling laws.}, author = {Bartsch, E. }, booktitle = {Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials 6}, citeulike-article-id = {1706440}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(95)00379-7}, journal = {Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids}, keywords = {colloids, dls, glass, mct, soft-sphere}, month = {December}, pages = {384--392}, posted-at = {2007-09-28 22:18:01}, priority = {3}, title = {Scattering experiments for the microscopic understanding of the glass transition}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(95)00379-7}, volume = {192-193}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - bartsch95 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1706440 TI - Scattering experiments for the microscopic understanding of the glass transition T2 - Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials 6 JF - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids VL - 192-193 SP - 384 EP - 392 N2 - Scattering experiments studying the dynamics of glass-forming systems have become of special importance for understanding glass transition phenomena. They monitor the density autocorrelation function which has become a key observable since it is calculated within a new concept of the glass transition, the mode coupling theory (MCT). After a short reference to the main predictions and examples of scattering experiments where these phenomena have been observed, results for two model systems will be analyzed with MCT: a recently reported analysis of neutron scattering data for orthoterphenyl in the [beta]-regime is improved and photon correlation spectroscopy data on colloidal spheres are described by simultaneously analyzing the [beta]- and [alpha]-relaxation dynamics using the MCT scaling laws. KW - colloids KW - dls KW - glass KW - mct KW - soft-sphere AU - Bartsch, E PY - 1995/12/02/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(95)00379-7 ER -