Geometry-Induced Casimir Suspension of Oblate Bodies in Fluids

Geometry-Induced Casimir Suspension of Oblate Bodies in Fluids

We predict that a low-permittivity oblate body (disk-shaped object) above a thin metal substrate (plate with a hole) immersed in a fluid of intermediate permittivity will experience a metastable equilibrium (restoring force) near the center of the hole. Stability is the result of a geometry-induced...

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Main Authors: Rodriguez, Alejandro W. (Author), Reid, M. T. Homer (Contributor), Intravaia, Francesco (Author), Woolf, Alexander (Author), Dalvit, D. A. R. (Author), Capasso, Federico (Author), Johnson, Steven G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2014-02-18T16:55:15Z.
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