Noncontact rack and pinion powered by the lateral casimir force

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Ashourvan, Arash ^a   Miri, Mirfaez ^a   Golestanian, Ramin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; VELOCITY;

CASIMIR FORCES; NONCONTACT RACKS; PINION;

CONTACT ANGLE;

EID: 34147119065     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.140801     Document Type: Article

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