Continuously tunable terahertz metamaterial employing magnetically actuated cantilevers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5741-5752

  Ozbey, Burak ^a   Aktas, Ozgur ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; METAMATERIALS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; CONTINUOUS TUNING; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FILTER APPLICATIONS; FREQUENCY RANGES; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; TERA HERTZ; TUNABLE BANDWIDTH;

TUNING;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETICS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79953217104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005741     Document Type: Article

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