Dynamic Light Scattering
- Page ID
- 334

The correlation function for a system experiencing Brownian motion \(G(t)\) decays exponentially with decay constant \(\Gamma\).
\[G(t)=e^{-\Gamma t}\]
\(\Gamma\) is related to the diffusivity of the particle by
\[\Gamma=-Dq^{^{2}} \]
where
\[q=\frac{4\pi n }{\lambda}\sin(\dfrac{\Theta }{2})\]
Contributors and Attributions
- Ben Nail (University of California Davis Chemistry Department)