Terahertz near-field imaging of electric and magnetic resonances of a planar metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3826-3834

  Bitzer, Andreas ^a   Merbold, Hannes ^b   Thoman, Andreas ^a   Feurer, Thomas ^b   Helm, Hanspeter ^a   Walther, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; METAMATERIALS;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANCE; MAGNETIC NEAR FIELD; MEASUREMENTS OF; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; TERA HERTZ;

RING GAGES;

EID: 61549092225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003826     Document Type: Article

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