Casimir forces in nanostructures

R Esquivel‐Sirvent, C Villarreal… - … status solidi (b), 2002 - Wiley Online Library
force for the symmetric case (two metallic or two dielectric slabs). Our results show that the
Casimir force … interaction between the tip and sample in atomic force microscopy experiments. …

Measurement of non-monotonic Casimir forces between silicon nanostructures

L Tang, M Wang, CY Ng, M Nikolic, CT Chan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
… For an intuitive understanding of the origin of the non-monotonic behaviour, we apply the
proximity force approximation (PFA) 2 to estimate the Casimir forces between different parts of …

Strong Casimir force reduction through metallic surface nanostructuring

F Intravaia, S Koev, IW Jung, AA Talin… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
… We have designed and fabricated high aspect ratio nanostructured gold gratings with … of
the Casimir force in vacuum between a gold-coated sphere and the nanostructured gold gratings…

Opportunities and challenges involving repulsive Casimir forces in nanotechnology

C Shelden, B Spreng, JN Munday - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Casimir force for levitation, other experiments have been carried out using repulsive
electrostatic forces 48 and critical Casimir forces 49 … experiments using repulsive Casimir forces. …

Casimir force-induced instability in freestanding nanotweezers and nanoactuators made of cylindrical nanowires

A Farrokhabadi, N Abadian, F Kanjouri… - International Journal of …, 2014 - World Scientific
… In this section, the instability of the abovementioned nanostructures (Fig. 1) due to the
presence of the Casimir force is demonstrated. Two applied cases, including the SSA and LSA, …

Modeling the influence of the Casimir force on the pull-in instability of nanowire-fabricated nanotweezers

A Farrokhabadi, J Mokhtari, R Rach… - International Journal of …, 2015 - World Scientific
… However, under certain considerations and simplifications, the present model can be used
for approximating the Casimir force in nanostructures fabricated from conductive nanotubes. …

Theoretical modeling of the Casimir force-induced instability in freestanding nanowires with circular cross-section

A Farrokhabadi, N Abadian, R Rach… - … and Nanostructures, 2014 - Elsevier
… In the present study, the Casimir force per unit length of the actuator for the Cylinder–Plate
and Cylinder–Cylinder nanostructures are considered by several idealization. To develop …

The Casimir effect in microstructured geometries

AW Rodriguez, F Capasso, SG Johnson - Nature photonics, 2011 - nature.com
… A recent experiment by Chan and co-workers 26 reported measurements of the Casimir
force between nanostructured silicon surfaces (periodic rectangular trenches) and a gold-coated …

Casimir forces and quantum electrodynamical torques: Physics and nanomechanics

F Capasso, JN Munday, D Iannuzzi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… measurements of the Casimir force using … Casimir force are presented. The dielectric
response of materials enters in a nonintuitive way in the modification of the Casimir–Lifshitz force

Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a periodic nanostructure

V Yannopapas, NV Vitanov - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2010 - APS
… , that the Casimir-Polder potential for a metallic nanostructure is practically independent of
the type of the metal from which the nanostructure is made. Also, the Casimir-Polder potential …