Terahertz graphene optics

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 667-678

  Rouhi, Nima ^a   Capdevila, Santiago ^b   Jain, Dheeraj ^a   Zand, Katayoun ^a   Wang, Yung Yu ^a   Brown, Elliott ^c   Jofre, Lluis ^b   Burke, Peter ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband; conductance; multilayer graphene; Single layer graphene; terahertz

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867869871     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0251-0     Document Type: Article

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