Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy for material characterization

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1658-1665

  Naftaly, Mira ^a   Miles, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amorphous materials; Terahertz spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; PLASMONS; REFLECTOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; NON-POLAR; TERAHERTZ ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 42649102826     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.898835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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