• DocumentCode
    2714655
  • Title

    Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of protein single crystals

  • Author

    Tych, Kataryzna M. ; Burnett, Andrew D. ; Wood, Christopher D. ; Cunningham, John E. ; Pearson, Arwen R. ; Linfield, Edmund H. ; Davies, A. Giles

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    5-10 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Broadband time-domain spectroscopy has been used to measure the terahertz frequency absorption of single crystal proteins. A dehydration study of tetragonal hen egg-white lysozyme is presented as a proof of concept.
  • Keywords
    biological techniques; crystals; enzymes; molecular biophysics; terahertz wave spectra; boadband time domain spectroscopy; dehydration study; protein single crystals; terahertz frequency absorption; tetragonal hen egg white lysozyme; trahertz time domain spectroscopy; Absorption; Broadband communication; Crystals; Physics; Proteins; Spectroscopy; Time domain analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2010 35th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6655-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIMW.2010.5612707
  • Filename
    5612707