Many-sided investigation of a liquid droplet lying on a substrate by different optical techniques

This paper presents the results of applying several optical techniques (refractive, frustrated total internal reflection, interference and surface plasmon resonance methods) to determine such parameters of droplets as time dependence of a contact spot area of an evaporating droplet, evaporation rate, shape of a droplet surface, wetting contact angle and temperature distribution in the thin boundary layer of liquid while heating and cooling.