Metal wires for terahertz wave guiding

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7015, 2004, Pages 376-379

  Wang, Kanglin ^a   Mittleman, Daniel M ^a  

^a The NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND PULSES; FINITE CONDUCTIVITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ WAVE GUIDING;

INFRARED RADIATION;

INFRARED RADIATION;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DISPERSION; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SAMPLING; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM;

EID: 9244223129     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03040     Document Type: Article

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