Corrugated goubau lines to slow down and confine THz waves

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 340-344

  Laurette, Simon ^a   Treizebre, Anthony ^a   Bocquet, Bertrand ^a  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Corrugated waveguide; Planar Goubau lines; Plasmonics; Substrate mode; Terahertz (THz)

Indexed keywords

CORRUGATED WAVEGUIDE; CORRUGATING LINES; DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; EFFECTIVE INDEX; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GOUBAU LINE; PARAMETRIC SIMULATIONS; PLASMONICS; TERAHERTZ; THZ WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 84861198919     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2012.2189207     Document Type: Article

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