Design and analysis of perfect terahertz metamaterial absorber by a novel dynamic circuit model

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16455-16465

  Hokmabadi, Mohammad Parvinnezhad ^a   Wilbert, David S ^a   Kung, Patrick ^a   Kim, Seongsin M ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; CIRCUIT THEORY; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES; METAMATERIALS; RESONANCE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ABSORPTION FREQUENCIES; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE (FSS); FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; INTERFERENCE THEORY; METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; MATERIALS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANALYSIS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84880518680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016455     Document Type: Article

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