Experimental demonstration of reflectarray antennas at terahertz frequencies

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2875-2889

  Niu, Tiaoming ^a,b   Withayachumnankul, Withawat ^a   Ung, Benjamin S Y ^a   Menekse, Hakan ^c   Bhaskaran, Madhu ^c   Sriram, Sharath ^c   Fumeaux, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; INCIDENT BEAMS; MICROSTRIPES; OPERATION FREQUENCY; PATCH ARRAYS; PATCH SIZE; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; REFLECTION PHASE; SPECULAR DIRECTION; TE POLARIZATIONS; TERAHERTZ COMMUNICATION; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84874064929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002875     Document Type: Article

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