Terahertz sources and detectors and their application to biological sensing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1815, 2004, Pages 365-377

  Crowe, Thomas W ^a,c   Globus, Tatiana ^a   Woolard, Dwight L ^b   Hesler, Jeffrey L ^a,c   Citrin, D ^d   Roskos, H ^e   Shen, Y ^f   Mittleman, D M ^g   Zhang, X C ^h   Haring Bolivar P ⁱ   Davies, A G ^j   Unterrainer, K ^k   Crompton, A ^l   Appelquist, I ^m   Smith, G ⁿ  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA DIODES INC   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g Rice University   (United States)

^h RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^k VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^l Cybernet Mach Grp Brit Comp S   (United Kingdom)

^m UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Biological sensing; Terahertz sources; Terahertz spectroscopy; Terahertz technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 10744233153     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1327     Document Type: Review

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