Study of Vacuum Energy Physics for Breakthrough Propulsion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781287265382)

This report summarizes the accomplishments during a three year research project to investigate the use of surfaces, particularly in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), to exploit quantum vacuum forces. During this project, we developed AFM instrumentation to repeatably measure Casimir forces in the nanoNewton range at 10 6 torr, designed an experiment to measure attractive and repulsive quantum vacuum forces, developed a QED based theory of Casimir forces that includes non-ideal material properties for rectangular cavities and for multilayer slabs, developed theoretical models for a variety of microdevices utilizing vacuum forces, applied vacuum physics to a gedanken spacecraft, and investigated a new material with a negative index of refraction.

Author: Marc G. Millis
ISBN-10: 1287265383
ISBN-13: 9781287265382
Publisher: Bibliogov
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2013
Pages: 60
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.12d