Transmission line model and fields analysis of metamaterial absorber in the terahertz band

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20256-20265

  Wen, Qi Ye ^a   Xie, Yun Song ^a   Zhang, Huai Wu ^a   Yang, Qing Hui ^a   Li, Yuan Xun ^a   Liu, Ying Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; METAMATERIALS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

DESIGN STRATEGIES; ITS APPLICATIONS; METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS; SPECIFIC LOCATION; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; STRONG ABSORPTIONS; TERAHERTZ BAND; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 70749114897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020256     Document Type: Article

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