Sensing the hygroscopicity of polymer and copolymer materials using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2262-2266

  Balakrishnan, Jegathisvaran ^a   Fischer, Bernd M ^a   Abbott, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

HIGH TRANSMISSION; LINEAR ABSORPTION; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; THZ SPECTROSCOPY; WINDOW MATERIALS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; WETTABILITY;

LINEAR MODELS; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYMERS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 65349109919     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002262     Document Type: Article

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