Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of selected layered silicates

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 416-424

  Janek, Marián ^a,b   Bugár, Ignác ^c   Lorenc, Dušan ^c,d   Szöcs, Vojtech ^b   Velic, Dušan ^b,c   Chorvát, Dušan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Absorption index; Biotite; Far infrared; Index of refraction; Layered silicates; Muscovite; Phlogopite; THz TDS; Vermiculite

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION INDEX; BIOTITE; FAR-INFRARED; INDEX OF REFRACTION; LAYERED SILICATES; MUSCOVITE; PHLOGOPITE; THZ-TDS; VERMICULITE;

CLAY MINERALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDRATES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; MICA; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PLASMONS; POSITIVE IONS; REFLECTOMETERS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER ABSORPTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

MINERALS;

BIOTITE; CLAY MINERAL; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MUSCOVITE; NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHLOGOPITE; SILICATE MINERAL; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VERMICULITE;

EID: 70350125999     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2009.0570402     Document Type: Article

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