Switching Casimir forces with phase-change materials

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Torricelli, G ^a   Van Zwol, P J ^b   Shpak, O ^b   Binns, C ^a   Palasantzas, G ^b   Kooi, B J ^b   Svetovoy, V B ^c   Wuttig, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SAMPLES; CASIMIR FORCE; HEAT SOURCES; NANO-SWITCHES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS; PHASE CHANGES; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION;

BINARY MIXTURES; METADATA; NANOSYSTEMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILVER; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 77954846254     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.010101     Document Type: Article

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