Impacts of terahertz scattering on the reflection spectrum for explosive detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6772, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zhou, Zhen ^a   Chen, Antao ^a   Zhang, John ^a   Zurk, Lisa M ^b   Orlowski, Brian ^b   Thorsos, Eric ^a   Winebrenner, Dale ^a   Dalton, Larry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Reflection spectrum; Scattering; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR MODELING;

REFLECTION SPECTRUM; SURFACE SCATTERING; TERAHERTZ SCATTERING;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 42449143513     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.733305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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