New artificial dielectric metamaterial and its application as a terahertz antireflection coating

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 6635-6642

  Zhang, J ^a   Ade, P A R ^a   Mauskopf, P ^a   Moncelsi, L ^a   Savini, G ^b   Whitehouse, N ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HOT PRESSING; MESH GENERATION; METAL PRESSING; POLYPROPYLENES; QUARTZ; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

ARTIFICIAL DIELECTRIC; BROADBAND ANTI REFLECTIONS; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; HIGH-FREQUENCY STRUCTURE SIMULATORS; OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; SUBMILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 73649084794     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006635     Document Type: Article

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