Complementary spectroscopic studies of materials of security interest

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6402, Issue , 2006, Pages

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

^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; INFRARED TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FAR-INFRARED VIBRATIONAL MODES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33846961829     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.689389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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