Effect of surface scattering on terahertz time domain spectroscopy of chemicals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6893, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Arbab, M Hassan ^a   Chen, Antao ^a   Thorsos, Eric I ^a   Winebrenner, Dale P ^a   Zurk, Lisa M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ABSORPTION PEAKS; DETECTION SCHEMES; ELECTRO OPTIC DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS; GRAIN SIZES; NONCONTACT (NC); ROUGH SURFACES; SURFACE SCATTERING; TERAHERTZ (THZ); TERAHERTZ (THZ) ABSORPTION SPECTRA; TERAHERTZ (THZ) FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ (THZ) SIGNALS; TERAHERTZ (THZ) SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ (THZ) TECHNOLOGY; TERAHERTZ (THZ) WAVES; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY (THZ TDS);

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTRA; CHEMICALS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FRICTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTORESISTS; PIGMENTS; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEEL ANALYSIS; SUGARS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; TARGETS; TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 42149163681     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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