Study of Vacuum Energy Physics for Breakthrough Propulsion

Download or read book Study of Vacuum Energy Physics for Breakthrough Propulsion written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.Millis, Marc G. (Technical Monitor) and Maclay, G. Jordan and Hammer, Jay and Clark, Rod and George, Michael and Kim, Yeong and Kir, AsitGlenn Research CenterMICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; ANTIGRAVITY; VACUUM; CAVITIES; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL; GRAVITATION; ELECTROSTATIC PROBES