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Confinement Between Rough Substrates: Fluctuation-Induced Forces, and Other Manifestations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Mehran Kardar  and
Hao Li
Mehran Kardar
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Hao Li
Affiliation:
The James Frank Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
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Abstract

Most surfaces are rough. In many cases the roughness is self-affine, with a width w that scales with the observation length L as w ∼ LC. We consider the medium confined between two such plates, and discuss how the dependence of various quantities on the separation of plates is modified by their roughness. Specific examples include fluctuation–induced forces, shifts in critical temperatures, and capacitance.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 290: Symposium N – Dynamics in Small Confining Systems , 1992 , 153
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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