Low loss and magnetic field-tunable superconducting terahertz metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 17504-17509

  Jin, Biaobing ^a   Zhang, Caihong ^a   Engelbrecht, Sebastian ^b   Pimenov, Andrei ^b   Wu, Jingbo ^a   Xu, Qinyin ^a   Cao, Chunhai ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Xu, Weiwei ^a   Kang, Lin ^a   Wu, Peiheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; METAMATERIALS; NIOBIUM; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TUNING;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; LOW LOSS; QUALITY FACTORS; RESONANCE MODE; TERAHERTZ; THERMAL TUNING; THZ SPECTROSCOPY; TUNING METHOD; WORKING TEMPERATURES;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

NIOBIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETICS; NIOBIUM; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77955637991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017504     Document Type: Article

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