Casimir forces and quantum electrodynamical torques: Physics and nanomechanics

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 400-414

  Capasso, Federico ^a,b   Munday, Jeremy N ^b   Iannuzzi, Davide ^a,c   Chan, H B ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Casimir effect; Electromagnetic properties; MEMS; Microelectromechanical devices; Quantum electrodynamics (QED); Van der Waals forces

Indexed keywords

CASIMIR EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED); ZERO POINT ENERGY;

BIREFRINGENCE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NANOMECHANICS; TORQUE; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 34247529110     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.893082     Document Type: Article

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