Flexible metamaterial absorbers for stealth applications at terahertz frequencies

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 635-643

  Iwaszczuk, Krzysztof ^a   Strikwerda, Andrew C ^b   Fan, Kebin ^c   Zhang, Xin ^c   Averitt, Richard D ^b   Jepsen, Peter Uhd ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); METAMATERIALS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR REFLECTION; SAMPLING; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

BEAM DIAMETERS; BISTATIC RADAR CROSS SECTION; DESIGN FREQUENCIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; FAR-FIELD; FINITE SAMPLES; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; METALLIC CYLINDERS; REFLECTION SPECTRA; RESONANT STRUCTURES; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; THZ WAVES;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG MODULUS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84855467328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000635     Document Type: Article

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