Figure 5
From: Accelerated annealing of colloidal crystal monolayers by means of cyclically applied electric fields
Performance and kinetics of colloidal crystals annealing as a function of melting time ratio \(t_{off} /\tau_{50}\). (a) Relative changes of system order parameters as a function of \(t_{off} /\tau_{50}\) for simulated systems. The difference of local order (\(\psi_{6}\)) and global order (I) are shown alongside rate of energy exchange with the Langevin thermostat. (I is measured by simulated SALS.) The change in \(\psi_{6}\) is most sharply peaked around \(t_{off} /\tau_{50}\) = 0.5. SALS peak intensity shows a somewhat broader peak distribution. Energy exchange rate with the thermostat is also broad; it furthermore shows a shift in peak position to \(t_{off} /\tau_{50}\) = 0.25 (inset). (b) Relative changes of annealing rate constant k as a function of \(t_{off} /\tau_{50}\) for both simulated systems and experiments. Here k has units of s−1.
