Silk foam terahertz waveguides

Silk foam-based terahertz waveguides are fabricated using lyophilisation and casting techniques. This work is motivated by the lack of biocompatible waveguides for low-loss guidance of THz for applications in remote sensing in biomedical and agro-alimentary industries.

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