| Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 4, February 2007
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| Article Number | 44006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/44006 | |
| Published online | 12 February 2007 | |
The Casimir effect for silicon and gold slabs
1
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS, ENS, UPMC - Campus Jussieu case 74, 75252 Paris, France
2
CEA/LETI - MINATEC, Silicon Heterogen Integration Division, Microsystems Component Laboratory 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Received:
23
November
2006
Accepted:
22
December
2006
We present calculations of the Casimir force between silicon and gold slabs of variable thickness. For silicon, the force is found to depend strongly on slab thickness and to decrease rapidly when the slab separation exceeds the thickness. For gold, Drude and plasma models give qualitatively different predictions for the Casimir force at large slab separations. We explain the influence of slab thickness by analyzing the phase factor acquired by the vacuum field when propagating inside the material slab. The present results could be interesting for nanotechnologies to eliminate an unwanted Casimir force.
PACS: 42.50.Ct – Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments / 12.20.Ds – Specific calculations / 12.20.-m – Quantum electrodynamics
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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