{"id":2447,"date":"2007-05-01T20:37:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T20:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2016-06-20T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:56:53","slug":"multilayered-polymeric-materials-for-terahertz-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/multilayered-polymeric-materials-for-terahertz-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilayered Polymeric Materials for Terahertz Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Louis Kosnosky with Jie Shan<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2007\/05\/LouisKosnoskyPOSTER.pdf\">Multilayered Polymeric Materials for Terahertz Applications<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Advances in technology have spurred an increased interest in the terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with applications in wireless communication, spectroscopy, imaging, and high-speed device characterization.\u00a0 Manipulating THz radiation has been investigated with semiconductor or other crystalline components.\u00a0 A limited number of studies with polymeric materials shows their viability as an alternative to the commonly-used inorganic materials (semiconductors et cetera).\u00a0 Polymers offer advantages in their low cost and ease of fabrication.\u00a0 Their main drawback in application is their low and small range of refractive index (RI), or equivalently, dielectric permittivity.\u00a0 In almost all component designs, a large difference in RI between layers is required for adequate performance.\u00a0 Nanostructured dopants offer a potential solution to this problem.\u00a0 Materials with high RIs can be added to the polymers (in low volume fractions) to increase their dielectric permittivity.\u00a0 Multilayered polymeric optical components for the THz region such as reflectors\/filters and phase retarders will be designed and characterized.\u00a0 Designs will incorporate films, gratings, and nanostructured additives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Kosnosky with Jie Shan<a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2007\/05\/LouisKosnoskyPOSTER.pdf\">Multilayered Polymeric Materials for Terahertz Applications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advances in technology have spurred an increased interest in the terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with applications in wireless communication, spectroscopy, imaging, and high-speed device characterization.\u00a0 Manipulating THz radiation has been investigated with semiconductor or other crystalline components.\u00a0 A limited number of studies with polymeric materials shows their viability as an alternative to the commonly-used inorganic materials (semiconductors et cetera).\u00a0 Polymers offer advantages in their low cost and ease of fabrication.\u00a0 Their main drawback in application is their low and small range of refractive index (RI),<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/multilayered-polymeric-materials-for-terahertz-applications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Multilayered Polymeric Materials for Terahertz Applications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[83,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}