Elastomeric silicone substrates for terahertz fishnet metamaterials

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Khodasevych, I E ^a   Shah, C M ^a   Sriram, S ^a   Bhaskaran, M ^a   Withayachumnankul, W ^b,c   Ung, B S Y ^b   Lin, H ^b   Rowe, W S T ^a   Abbott, D ^b   Mitchell, A ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; SILICONE SUBSTRATES; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

METAMATERIALS; MICROCHANNELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES;

SILICONES;

EID: 84863116475     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3665180     Document Type: Article

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