Near-field measurement of infrared coplanar strip transmission line attenuation and propagation constants

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21678-21686

  Krenz, Peter M ^a   Olmon, Robert L ^b,c,e   Lail, Brian A ^d   Raschke, Markus B ^b,e   Boreman, Glenn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ANTENNA-COUPLED; COPLANAR STRIP TRANSMISSION LINES; FULL-WAVE MODEL; LOW LOSS TRANSMISSION LINES; MEASURED RESULTS; METAL-AIR INTERFACE; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENT; NOVEL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVES; OPTIMAL ENERGY; PLASMONIC; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; STANDING WAVE; TRANSMISSION LINE; VOLTAGE WAVES;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78049507297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021678     Document Type: Article

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