Sensing self-assembled alkanethiols by differential transmission interrogation with terahertz metamaterials

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 4877-4883

  Wu, Xiaojun ^a   Quan, Baogang ^a   Pan, Xuecong ^a   Xu, Xinlong ^a,b   Lu, Xinchao ^c   Xia, Xiaoxiang ^a   Li, Junjie ^a   Gu, Changzhi ^a   Wang, Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ALKANETHIOL MOLECULES; CHAIN-LENGTH DEPENDENCE; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; ELECTRON TRANSFER; RESONANT REGIONS; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SURFACE DIPOLE;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84880622013     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.004877     Document Type: Article

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