Crystalline multilayers of charged colloids in soft confinement: experiment versus theory.

@article{Ouz2012CrystallineMO,
  title={Crystalline multilayers of charged colloids in soft confinement: experiment versus theory.},
  author={Erdal C. Oğuz and Alexander Reinm{\"u}ller and H J Sch{\"o}pe and Thomas Palberg and Ren'e Messina and Hartmut L{\"o}wen},
  journal={Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal},
  year={2012},
  volume={24 46},
  pages={
          464123
        }
}
We combine real-space experiments and lattice sum calculations to investigate the phase diagram of charged colloidal particles under soft confinement. In the experiments we explore the equilibrium phase diagram of charged colloidal spheres in aqueous suspensions confined between two parallel charged walls at low background salt concentrations. Motivated by the experiments, we perform lattice sum minimizations to predict the crystalline ground state of point-like Yukawa particles which are… 
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