Influence of random roughness on the Casimir force at small separations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Van Zwol, P J ^a   Palasantzas, G ^a   De Hosson, J Th M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 40949142887     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075412     Document Type: Article

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