Inkjet Printed Wire-Grid Polarizers for the THz Frequency Range
Optics
2016-11-23 v1 Materials Science
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
We have investigated the use of inkjet printing technology for the production of THz range wire-grid polarizers using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy (TDTS). Such technology affords an inexpensive and reproducible way of quickly manufacturing THz range metamaterial structures. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, numerous thin silver-nanoparticle ink lines were printed using a Dimatix DMP-2831 printer. We investigated the optimal printing geometry of the polarizers by examining a number of samples with printed wires of varying thickness and spacing. We also investigated the polarization properties of multiply-stacked polarizers.
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@article{arxiv.1610.03586,
title = {Inkjet Printed Wire-Grid Polarizers for the THz Frequency Range},
author = {A. Farid and N. J. Laurita and B. Tehrani and J. G. Hester and M. M. Tentzeris and N. P. Armitage},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03586},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
To appear International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves