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Comparative Study of Material Parameter Extraction Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy in Transmission and in Reflection

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As no terahertz signal is transmitted through opaque materials, reflection terahertz time-domain spectroscopy is obviously the dedicated setup. On the other hand, optical properties of transparent and thick samples are extracted more accurately with transmission terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. In this paper, we report the intrinsic frontier above or below which it is preferable to use either reflection or transmission setup for probing with the best accuracy possible a given sample.

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The author would thank M. Urs J. Hänggi from the German company Biomer for giving them the bioplastic materials that constitute the samples tested in this article.

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  1. Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Grenoble INP, IMEP-LAHC, 73376, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France

    Maxime Bernier, Frédéric Garet, Benjamin Blampey & Jean-Louis Coutaz

  2. Advantest Corp., 48-2 Matsubara, Kamiayashi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-3124, Japan

    Eiji Kato

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Bernier, M., Garet, F., Kato, E. et al. Comparative Study of Material Parameter Extraction Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy in Transmission and in Reflection. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 39, 349–366 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-018-0463-9

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