Van der Waals interactions at the nanoscale: The effects of nonlocality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 52, 2014, Pages 18422-18427

  Luo, Yu ^a   Zhao, Rongkuo ^a   Pendry, John B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nonlocality; Plasmonics; Transformation optics; Van der waals

Indexed keywords

DIMER; NANOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON; FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; SURFACE CHARGE; VAN DER WAALS FORCE;

EID: 84924308790     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420551111     Document Type: Article

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