Qptical characteristics of biological molecules in the Terahertz gap

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5584, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-10

  Globus, Tatiana ^a   Parthasarathy, Ramakrishnan ^a   Khromova, Tatyana ^a   Woolard, Dwight ^b   Swami, Nathan ^a   Gatesman, Andrew J ^c   Waldman, Jerry ^c  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption coefficient; Bio materials; Dispersion; Reflection; Refractive index; Spectroscopy; Terahertz; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; ANOMALOUS DISPERSIONS; REFLECTION SPECTRA; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION SPECTRA;

BIOMATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PROTEINS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RNA; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 16644362005     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.580838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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