Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy as a tool to monitor the glass transition in polymers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19006-19014

  Wietzke, Steffen ^a   Jansen, Christian ^a   Jung, Tilmann ^b   Reuter, Marco ^b   Baudrit, Benjamin ^c   Bastian, Martin ^c   Chatterjee, Sangam ^b   Koch, Martin ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Suddeutsches Kunststoff Zentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAL RESINS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GLASS; PLASMONS; POLYMERS; REFLECTOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

AMORPHOUS PHASE; NON DESTRUCTIVE; SEGMENTAL MOTION; SEMICRYSTALLINES; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 70350329377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019006     Document Type: Article

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