Broadband multi-layer terahertz metamaterials fabrication and characterization on flexible substrates

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6990-6998

  Han, N R ^a   Chen, Z C ^a,b   Lim, C S ^b   Ng, B ^b,c   Hon, M H ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LASER PULSES; METAMATERIALS; RESONANCE; RING GAGES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

BROADBAND RESPONSE; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; NARROW BANDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPERATING REGIONS; POLYETHYLENE NAPHTHALATE; RESONANCE RESPONSE; SINGLE LAYER; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN PARAMETERS; TERA HERTZ; THZ FILTERS; THZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 79953903106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006990     Document Type: Article

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