Analysis of drugs of abuse and explosives using terahertz time-domain and Raman spectroscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6120, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Burnett, Andrew ^a   Fan, Wenhui ^a   Upadhya, Prashanth ^a   Cunningham, John ^a   Linfield, Edmund ^a   Davies, Giles ^a   Edwards, Howell ^b   Munshi, Tasnim ^b   O'Neil, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband; Drugs; Explosives; Raman; Spectroscopy; Temperature Dependence; Terahertz; Time Domain

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; EXPLOSIVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INTRA-MOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL MODES; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY SPECTRA;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

EID: 33646688471     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.659662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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