Influence of slab thickness on the Casimir force

2008/01/15 by I. G. Pirozhenko, A. Lambrecht, Astrid Lambrecht · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #hep-th #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.77.013811

published as Phys.Rev.A77:013811,2008 · 10 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, v2, typos corrected

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Abstract

We calculate the Casimir force between slabs of finite thickness made of intrinsic and doped silicon with different concentration of carriers and compare the results to those obtained for gold slabs. We use the Drude and the plasma models to describe the dielectric function for the carriers in doped Si. We discuss the possibility of experimentally testing the appropriateness of these models. We also investigate the influence of finite thickness on VO₂, which has recently been proposed for Casimir effect measurements testing the metal-insulator transition.

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