Terahertz plasmonic composites.

composed of periodi-cally distributed, very thin, electrically conducting wires. In the microwave regime, such plasmon/polymercomposites have been studied analytically, computationally, and experimentally. This work reports the design,fabrication, and characterization of similar composites for operation at terahertz frequencies. Such compositesrequire significant reduction in the thickness and spacing of the wires. We used numerical modeling to designartificial effective plasmonic media with