Modeling terahertz heating effects on water

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4727-4739

  Kristensen, Torben T L ^a   Withayachumnankul, Withawat ^b,c   Jepsen, Peter Uhd ^a   Abbott, Derek ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; MATLAB; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

A-SPOTS; AVERAGE POWER; BEAM POWER; BIO-TISSUE; CW BEAM; GENERALIZED MODELS; HEAT EQUATION; HEATING EFFECT; HIGH WATER CONTENT; HUMAN BODIES; KIRCHHOFF; MATERIAL CONSTANT; OPEN SOURCES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE ANTENNAS; SAMPLE TEMPERATURE; STEADY-STATE TEMPERATURE; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ LIGHT; THZ PULSE; TIME DOMAIN SYSTEMS; TRANSMITTED POWER;

WATER CONTENT;

EID: 77749344616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004727     Document Type: Article

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