Highly absorbing nano-scale metal films for terahertz

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8119, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Alves, Fabio ^a   Karamitros, Apostolos ^a   Grbovic, Dragoslav ^a   Kearney, Brian ^a   Karunasiri, Gamani ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Metal films; Sensors; Terahertz; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING LAYERS; ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; BI-MATERIAL; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FILL FACTOR; METAL FILM; NANOSCALE METALS; NICKEL FILM; SPECTRAL BAND; TERA HERTZ; THERMAL IMAGERS; THERMAL SENSORS;

METALLIC FILMS; METALS; NANOSENSORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SENSORS; THIN FILMS;

CHROMIUM;

EID: 80053495051     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.894088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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