Observation of the skin-depth effect on the Casimir force between metallic surfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 11989-11992

  Lisanti, Mariangela ^a   Iannuzzi, Davide ^b,c   Capasso, Federico ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Casimir effect; Microelectromechanical systems; Vacuum fluctuations; Zero point energy

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; CASIMIR FORCE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FILM; FORCE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEASUREMENT; METAL BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS;

EID: 24744451940     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0505614102     Document Type: Article

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