Temperature control of terahertz metamaterials with liquid crystals

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 827-831

  Liu, Liming ^a   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^b   Powell, David A ^b   Raihan, Rezaur ^a   Hattori, Haroldo T ^a   Decker, Manuel ^b   Mironov, Evgeny ^a   Neshev, Dragomir N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c KHULNA UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals (LCs); metamaterials; terahertz; thermal tuning

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY-TUNING; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS (LCS); LOWER FREQUENCIES; RESONANT RESPONSE; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; TERA HERTZ; THERMAL TUNING;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84890127380     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2013.2285570     Document Type: Article

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