Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

Amount

$410,000.00

Award Date

8/04/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This research project aims to achieve a better understanding of the Casimir-Polder potential-the force between an electrically neutral atom and a surface due solely to fluctuations of the quantum- mechanical vacuum-in regimes of novel geometries and mater