Manufacturing process effects on the terahertz spectra of RDX

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6949, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wilkinson, John ^a   Caulder, Stanley M ^a   Portieri, Alessia ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b TERAVIEW LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defects in energetics; Explosives; Explosives detection; Spectroscopy; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MANUFACTURE; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; VEGETATION;

CO CRYSTALLIZATIONS; ENERGETIC MATERIALS; EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES; INTERNATIONAL (CO); MANUFACTURING PROCESSES; SECURITY APPLICATIONS; SPECTRA (CO); SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; TERAHERTZ (THZ); TERAHERTZ (THZ) SPECTROSCOPY; THZ SPECTRUM;

MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

EID: 45149119880     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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