Universal nanocolloid deposition patterns: Can you see the harmonics of a taylor cone?

Abstract

Specific harmonics of the Laplace equation are selected near a conducting Taylor cone with discrete polar angles for the field maxima. Charged nanocolloids ejected along the discrete electric field lines of these mode maxima are observed to deposit a universal spectrum of rings on an intersecting plane, with particles of different sizes occupying different spectral lines due to different residue charge. After an affine transformation, nanocolloids ejected into a microslit and deposited onto one substrate are also shown to exhibit the same universal line spectra. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.