Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions

LM Woods, DAR Dalvit, A Tkatchenko… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir
forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems …

Hyperbolic metamaterials as an analog of a blackbody in the near field

SA Biehs, M Tschikin, P Ben-Abdallah - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We study the near-field heat exchange between hyperbolic materials and demonstrate that
these media are able to support broadband frustrated modes which transport heat by photon …

Casimir‐Lifshitz Optical Resonators: A New Platform for Exploring Physics at the Nanoscale

V Esteso, D Frustaglia… - Advanced Physics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Casimir‐Lifshitz force, FC− L, has become a subject of great interest to both
theoretical and applied physics communities due to its fundamental properties and potential …

Repulsive Casimir force in chiral metamaterials

R Zhao, J Zhou, T Koschny, EN Economou… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We demonstrate theoretically that one can obtain repulsive Casimir forces and stable
nanolevitations by using chiral metamaterials. By extending the Lifshitz theory to treat chiral …

Modulation of near-field heat transfer between two gratings

SA Biehs, FSS Rosa, P Ben-Abdallah - Applied Physics Letters, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We present a theoretical study of near-field heat transfer between two uniaxial anisotropic
planar structures. We investigate how the distance and relative orientation (with respect to …

Near-field radiative heat transfer with doped-silicon nanostructured metamaterials

XL Liu, RZ Zhang, ZM Zhang - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2014 - Elsevier
The objective of this work is to evaluate different practically achievable doped-silicon (D-Si)
nanostructured metamaterials (including nanowires and nanoholes, multilayers, and one …

Influence of hBN orientation on the near-field radiative heat transfer between graphene/hBN heterostructures

X Wu, C Fu, Z Zhang - Journal of Photonics for Energy, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The influence of the optic axis orientation of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on the near-field
radiative heat transfer between hBN slabs as well as between graphene/hBN …

Demonstration of the Casimir Force between Ferromagnetic Surfaces of a Ni-Coated Sphere<? format?> and a Ni-Coated Plate

AA Banishev, GL Klimchitskaya, VM Mostepanenko… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
We demonstrate the Casimir interaction between two ferromagnetic boundary surfaces
using the dynamic atomic force microscope. The experimental data are found to be in …

Strong Casimir force reduction through metallic surface nanostructuring

F Intravaia, S Koev, IW Jung, AA Talin… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The Casimir force between bodies in vacuum can be understood as arising from their
interaction with an infinite number of fluctuating electromagnetic quantum vacuum modes …

Near-field radiative heat transfer in hyperbolic materials

R Liu, C Zhou, Y Zhang, Z Cui, X Wu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In the post-Moore era, as the energy consumption of micro-nano electronic devices rapidly
increases, near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) with super-Planckian phenomena has …