Terahertz near-field microscopy with subwavelength spatial resolution based on photoconductive antennas

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Bitzer, Andreas ^a,b   Ortner, Alex ^a   Walther, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PACKAGING MATERIALS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY;

CHARACTERISTIC ABSORPTION; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; METALLIC STRUCTURES; MICROSCOPIC RESOLUTION; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE ANTENNAS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77953476868     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.0000E1     Document Type: Article

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