Photon force measurement

Dynamic Analysis Using Photon Force Measurement... 

Using this photon force measurement technique, radiation pressure induced by a focused laser beam and an evanescent field [12, 14, 19, 20] was investigated for polymer latexes and metallic particles. Electrostatic forces of charged particles in... 

Figure 7.3 shows the two-beam photon-force measurement system using a coaxial illumination photon force measurement system. Two microparticles dispersed in a liquid are optically trapped by two focused near-infrared beams ( 1 pm spot size) of a CW Nd YAG laser under an optical microscope (1064 nm, 1.2 MWcm , lOOX oil-immersion objective, NA = 1.4). The particles are positioned sufficiently far from the surface of a glass slide in order to neglect the interaction between the particles and the substrate. Green and red beams from a green LD laser (532 nm, 21 kWcm ) and a He-Ne laser (632.8 nm, 21 kW cm ) are introduced coaxially into the microscope and slightly focused onto each microparticle as an illumination light (the irradiated area was about 3 pm in diameter). The sizes of the illumination areas for the green and red beams are almost the same as the diameter of the microparticles (see Figure 7.4). The back scattered light from the surface of each microparticle is...

Figure 7.3 A schematic of a two-beam photon-force measurement system. Obj objective lens (lOOx oil immersion, N.A. 1.4), PBS polarization beam splitter, FI color filter for eliminating red illumination laser beam, F2 color filter for eliminating green illumination laser...

We introduced the technique for measuring the weak interaction forces acting between two particles using the photon force measurement method. Compared with the previous typically used methods, such as cross-correlation analysis, this technique makes it possible to evaluate the interaction forces without a priori information, such as media viscosity, particle mass and size. In this chapter, we focused especially on the hydrodynamic force as the interaction between particles and measured the interaction force by the potential analysis method when changing the distance between particles. As a result, when the particles were dose to each other, the two-dimensional plots of the kinetic potentials for each particle were distorted in the diagonal direction due to the increase in the interaction force. From the results, we evaluated the interaction coeffidents and confirmed that the dependence of the... 

In photocathodes or photomultipliers the incident photons force electrons to leave the material. This external photoeffect can be calibrated and amplified by acceleration and multiplication of the electrons in multi-electrode arrangements (dynodes). These devices have very short response times and can be successfully used to control the stability of a light source. Therefore such devices are frequently included in commercially available set-ups. An example is given in Fig. 4.32 combining an irradiation source with a measurement set-up. This is commercially available [119] and allows simple control of a photoreaction. However, due to geometry and inhomogeneity of the sensitive layer of the photodiode, non-homogeneous irradiation can cause errors. 

In addition, well-characterized polymer colloids will continue to serve as tools and models in various optical techniques (atomic force microscopy, optical tweezers, photonic force microscopy etc.) for investigating direct measurements of colloidal forces and studying physical properties of biological membranes and vesicles. All these techniques should be useful in different fields of applications, especially in microfluidics systems. 

Another largely unexplored area is the change of dynamics due to the influence of the surface. The dynamic behavior of a latex suspension as a model system for Brownian particles is determined by photon correlation spectroscopy in evanescent wave geometry [130] and reported to differ strongly from the bulk. Little information is available on surface motion and relaxation phenomena of polymers [10, 131]. The softening at the surface of polymer thin films is measured by a mechanical nano-indentation technique [132], where the applied force and the path during the penetration of a thin needle into the surface is carefully determined. Thus the structure, conformation and dynamics of polymer molecules at the free surface is still very much unexplored and only few specific examples have been reported in the literature. 

We can siunmarize all of the above research carried out over the last two centuries in that a photon is a qucuitum of radiation and a carrier of force between particles, whereas an electron is a quantum of matter. Now, let us examine the more mundane aspects of light measurement including color measurement. 

Several experimental parameters have been used to describe the conformation of a polymer adsorbed at the solid-solution interface these include the thickness of the adsorbed layer (photon correlation spectroscopy(J ) (p.c.s.), small angle neutron scattering (2) (s.a.n.s.), ellipsometry (3) and force-distance measurements between adsorbed layers (A), and the surface bound fraction (e.s.r. (5), n.m.r. ( 6), calorimetry (7) and i.r. (8)). However, it is very difficult to describe the adsorbed layer with a single parameter and ideally the segment density profile of the adsorbed chain is required. Recently s.a.n.s. (9) has been used to obtain segment density profiles for polyethylene oxide (PEO) and partially hydrolysed polyvinyl alcohol adsorbed on polystyrene latex. For PEO, two types of system were examined one where the chains were terminally-anchored and the other where the polymer was physically adsorbed from solution. The profiles for these two... 

Perhaps the most obvious strategy for a chemist is to use an actual chemical reaction involving covalent bond formation rather than the interplay of supramo-lecular forces. The following section thus illustrates the use of chemical reactions in the context of luminescence signaling, concentrating on two different phenomena (i) the production of a fluorophore in a chemical reaction, which still requires a conventional fluorescence measurement setup, and (ii) chemiluminescence (CL), where photons are produced by a chemical reaction, but which only needs a detector for registration of the emitted light. 

Allen et a/. (1991) performed these computations for 1-octadecene droplets, and they measured the evaporation rate of the droplets as a function of laser power. To determine the absolute irradiance /, of the laser beam, they also measured the force on the particle exerted by the laser beam using the techniques discussed above. The photon pressure force is given by Eq. (87), which involves the complex refractive index. The real component of the refractive index n was determined from optical resonance measurements, and the imaginary component was obtained iteratively. That is, they assumed a... 

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