Introducing quasi-optical terahertz circular dichroism spectroscopy
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICATT.2017.7972579Keywords:
sub-Terahertz, circular dichroism, absorption, protein structural changeAbstract
A sub-Terahertz circular dichroism spectrometer is developed and built based on a vector network analyzer driven quasi-optical system at 220-325 GHz sub-THz frequency domain (VNA-CD). The main goal is to explore the potentially significant absorption features in THz signatures of aqueous protein samples.References
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