Compressed Silica Aerogels for the Study of Superfluid 3He

Journal Article · Thu Sep 07 04:00:00 EDT 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2354681· OSTI ID:20884814

Pollanen, J; Choi, H; Davis, J P; Blinstein, S; Lippman, T M; Halperin, W P ^[1]; Lurio, L B ^[2]; Mulders, N ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 (United States)
3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 (United States)

We have performed Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) on uniaxially strained aerogels and measured the strain-induced structural anisotropy. We use a model to connect our SAXS results to anisotropy of the 3He quasiparticle mean free path in aerogel.

• OSTI ID: 20884814
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 850; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ANISOTROPY
GELS
HELIUM 3
MEAN FREE PATH
SILICA
SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING
SUPERFLUIDITY
X-RAY DIFFRACTION