Tailoring the thermal Casimir force with graphene

Svetovoy, V. and Moktadir, Z. and Elwenspoek, M. and Mizuta, H. (2011) Tailoring the thermal Casimir force with graphene. EPL: A Letters Journal Exploring the Frontiers of Physics, 96 (1). p. 14006. ISSN 0295-5075

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Abstract:	– The Casimir interaction is omnipresent source of forces at small separations between bodies, which is difficult to change by varying external conditions. Here we show that graphene interacting with a metal can have the best known force contrast to the temperature and the Fermi level variations. In the distance range 50–300nm the force is measurable and can vary a few times for graphene with a bandgap much larger than the temperature. In this distance range the main part of the force is due to the thermal fluctuations. We discuss also graphene on a dielectric membrane as a technologically robust configuration.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2011 IOP Publishing
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Transducers Science and Technology (TST)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/78589
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/14006
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