Template-stripped gold surfaces with 0.4-nm rms roughness suitable for force measurements: Application to the Casimir force in the 20-100-nm range

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 062104-062101

  Ederth, Thomas ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SURFACE CHEMISTRY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; FORCE MEASUREMENT; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CASIMIR FORCES; TEMPLATE STRIPPING METHODS;

GOLD PLATING;

EID: 4143109263     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.062104     Document Type: Article

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