Casimir Force with Chiral Metamaterials

Rongkuo Zhao; Eleftherios Economou; Thomas Koschny; Costas Soukoulis

META 2021, META'12

Rongkuo Zhao, Eleftherios Economou, Thomas Koschny, Costas Soukoulis

Last modified: 2012-01-04

Abstract

It was theoretically demonstrated that repulsive Casimir forces and stable nanolevitations can be obtained by using chiral metamaterials if the chirality is strong enough. Possible challenges exiting in our proposal will also be discussed.

Keywords

metamaterials, chiral metamaterials, Casimir force