Terahertz metamaterials on free-standing highly-flexible polyimide substrates

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Tao, Hu ^a   Strikwerda, A C ^b   Fan, K ^a   Bingham, C M ^c   Padilla, W J ^c   Zhang, Xin ^a   Averitt, R D ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATES; LOW LOSS; MULTI LAYERS; POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATES; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

POLYIMIDES; POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 65249144038     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/23/232004     Document Type: Article

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