Primary Recipient

RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY

Amount

$180,000.00

Award Date

7/31/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Casimir effects are macroscopic manifestations of changes in the energy of the quantum ground state. They result from changes in boundary conditions or of classical backgrounds for quantized fields. The corresponding Casimir forces can dominate at micro-