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Interplay of roughness/modulation and curvature for surface interactions at proximity

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Krueger, Matthias Helmut Guenter; Golyk, Vladyslav A.; Bimonte, Giuseppe; Kardar, Mehran
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Abstract
Employing the proximity approximation, we show that roughness or surface modulations change the distance dependence of (power-law) interactions between curved objects at proximity. The modified scaling law is simply related to the order of the first non-vanishing coefficient of the Taylor expansion of the distribution of separations between the surfaces. The latter can in principle be estimated by scanning measurements, or computed for well characterized modulations, and then used to predict short-distance scaling behavior in disparate experiments. For example, we predict that the radiative heat transfer between a rough sphere and a plate approaches a constant with decreasing separation. Similar saturation is expected for the Casimir force between dielectric or metallic surfaces with appropriate modulations over distinct length scales.
Date issued
2013-11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88481
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Journal
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing
Citation
Krüger, Matthias, Vladyslav A. Golyk, Giuseppe Bimonte, and Mehran Kardar. “Interplay of Roughness/modulation and Curvature for Surface Interactions at Proximity.” EPL (Europhysics Letters) 104, no. 4 (November 1, 2013): 41001.
Version: Original manuscript
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0295-5075
1286-4854

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