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Theory of De-Pinning of Monolayer Films Adsorbed on a Quartz Crystal Microbalance
J. B. Sokoloff, I. Webman
In quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) studies of the friction between an adsorbed monolayer film and a metallic substrate, the films are observed to slide relative to the substrate…
Lack of Pinning for Rigid Sliding Monolayers in Microbalance Experiments
J. B. Sokoloff, I. Webman
Recent work on the dynamics of monolayers on a metallic substrate attached to a quartz oscillator has provided interesting data on kinetic friction at the microscopic level. Slidin…
A Mechanism for Lubrication between Surfaces with Atomic Level Roughness
J. B. Sokoloff
It is proposed that lubricant molecules adsorbed on an interface between two asperities in contact, which is rough on the atomic scale, can switch the interface from the strong to…
Refraction of Electromagnetic Energy for Wave Packets Incident on a Negative Index Medium is Always Negative
W. T. Lu, J. B. Sokoloff, S. Sridhar
We analyze refraction of electromagnetic wave packets on passing from an isotropic positive to an isotropic negative refractive index medium. We definitively show that in all cases…
Explaining the Virtual Universal Occurrence of Static Friction
J. B. Sokoloff
Perturbation theory, simulations and scaling arguments predict that there should be no static friction for two weakly interacting flat atomically smooth clean solid surfaces. The a…
Kinetic Friction due to Ohm's Law Heating
J. B. Sokoloff
Using both a recent calculation by Bruch of the damping of the motion of a monolayer nitrogen film oscillating harmonically on a metallic surface due to Ohm's law heating and a Tho…