Precision measurement of the Casimir force using gold surfaces

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 052109-052101

  Harris, B W ^a   Chen, H F ^a   Mohideen, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROSTATICS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; GOLD; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTODIODES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BOLTZMANN CONSTANT; CASIMIR FORCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC VACUUM FLUCTUATIONS; RELAXATION FREQUENCIES; RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 3543036231     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.052109     Document Type: Article

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