Study of the transmission of subwavelength metallic grids in the THz frequency range

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 513-520

  Armand, Damien ^a   Todorov, Yanko ^b   Garet, Frédéric ^a   Minot, Christophe ^b,c   Coutaz, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

1 D photonic crystal; Extraordinary transmission; Grating; Surface plasmon (SP); Terahertz (THz)

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; EVAPORATION; GOLD; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; WAVELENGTH;

EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON (SP); TERAHERTZ (THZ);

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 41949096013     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.910766     Document Type: Article

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