Rayleigh jets from levitated microdroplets

Denis Duft, Tobias Achtzehn, Rene Müller, Bernd A. Huber and Thomas Leisner ()
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Denis Duft: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau
Tobias Achtzehn: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau
Rene Müller: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau
Bernd A. Huber: Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Ions Lasers
Thomas Leisner: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau

Nature, 2003, vol. 421, issue 6919, 128-128

Abstract: Abstract Electrified droplets are generated in thunderstorm clouds, as well as in technological applications such as ink-jet printing and electrospray ionization, but they become unstable when charged beyond the Rayleigh limit1. Here we record the dynamics of the disintegration process by examining levitated droplets under high-speed microscopy. These images may help to explain one of the oldest unsolved problems in experimental and theoretical physics.

Date: 2003
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