Measured long-range repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7226, 2009, Pages 170-173

  Munday, J N ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Parsegian, V Adrian ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; FORCE; FRICTION; LIQUID; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 58149336363     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07610     Document Type: Article

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