Fluid sensitive nanoscale switching with quantum levitation controlled by $\alpha$-Sn/$\beta$-Sn phase transition

Mathias Boström, Maofeng Dou, Oleksandr I. Malyi +4

We analyse the Lifshitz pressure between silica and tin separated by a liquid mixture of bromobenzene and chlorobenzene. We show that the phase transition from semimetallic $\alpha$-Sn…