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October 28, 2013

Engineered nanostructures could offer way to control quantum effect
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2013
You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like strangers passing in the night-so close but destined never to meet. Thanks to quantum mechanics, you would be wrong. Scientists working to engineer nanoscale machines know this only too well as they have to grapple with quantum forces and all the weirdness that comes with them. These quantum forces, most notably the Casimir effect, can play havoc if you n ... read more

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