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Terahertz Planar Antennas for Next Generation Communication

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Terahertz frequency (THz) band is coarsely defined as a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which extends from 0.1 to 10 THz and occupies an extremely large regime of the electromagnetic spectrum between the infrared and microwave bands. This far-infrared region is important because of the rich physical and chemical processes with spectrographic footprints.

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