Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5302–5305 (1999)

Cooperative Evaporation in Ordered Arrays of Volatile Droplets

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C. Schäfle¹, C. Bechinger¹, B. Rinn¹, C. David², and P. Leiderer¹
¹Fakultät für Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
²Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland

Received 23 April 1999; published in the issue dated 20 December 1999

We study the evaporation behavior of regular arrays of volatile droplets on a solid substrate. We observe that under certain conditions the droplets do not evaporate independently of each other but in a cooperative manner. This results in the development of a superlattice which is explained in terms of matter exchange between adjacent droplets.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5302

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5302

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64.70.Fx, 05.70.Ln, 64.70.Rh

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5302–5305 (1999)

Cooperative Evaporation in Ordered Arrays of Volatile Droplets