THz-micro-spectroscopy

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 470-475

  Gompf, Bruno ^a   Dressel, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aperture scanning near field optical microscopes (SNOM); Near field imaging; Submillimeter spectroscopy; Terahretz (THz) image contrast; THz spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

APERTURE SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPES (SNOM); NEAR-FIELD IMAGING; SUBMILLIMETER SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHRETZ (THZ) IMAGE CONTRAST; THZ SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 41949112830     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.910560     Document Type: Article

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