Ultrathin metallic coatings can induce quantum levitation between nanosurfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Boström, Mathias ^a,b   Ninham, Barry W ^b   Brevik, Iver ^a   Persson, Clas ^c,d   Parsons, Drew F ^b   Sernelius, Bo E ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SEPARATION; METALLIC COATING; NANO-COATINGS; NANOSURFACES; SILICA SURFACE; ULTRA-THIN;

SEPARATION; SILICA; TOLUENE;

METAL COATINGS;

EID: 84863299538     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4729822     Document Type: Article

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