Coupled surface polaritons and the Casimir force

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 238081-238087

  Henkel, C ^a   Joulain, K ^b,c   Mulet, J Ph ^b,d   Greffet, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^c ENSMA   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DAMPING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VACUUM; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CASIMIR ENERGY; CASIMIR FORCE; STRESS TENSORS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 1942442979     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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