Repulsive casimir force in chiral metamaterials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Zhao, R ^a,b   Zhou, J ^a   Koschny, Th ^a,c   Economou, E N ^c,d   Soukoulis, C M ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASIMIR FORCE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCIES; INTERACTION ENERGIES; LIFSHITZ THEORY; LIMITING VALUES; REPULSIVE FORCES;

BINARY MIXTURES; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 69949170017     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.103602     Document Type: Article

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