Broadband spectroscopy of polymer waveguide and its sensing applications in the THz region

LIU Jing; XIAO Ming-Fei; SHEN Jing-Ling; ZHANG Bo; ZHANG Wei; ZHANG Cun-Lin

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2016.05.003

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