%0 Journal Article %@ 0003-6951 %A Navarro-Cia, M %A Natrella, M %A Dominec, F %A Delagnes, JC %A Kuzel, P %A Mounaix, P %A Graham, C %A Renaud, CC %A Seeds, AJ %A Mitrofanov, O %D 2013 %F discovery:1416553 %J APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS %N 22 %T Terahertz imaging of sub-wavelength particles with Zenneck surface waves %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1416553/ %V 103 %X Impact of sub-wavelength-size dielectric particles on Zenneck surface waves on planar metallic antennas is investigated at terahertz (THz) frequencies with THz near-field probe microscopy. Perturbations of the surface waves show the particle presence, despite its sub-wavelength size. The experimental configuration, which utilizes excitation of surface waves at metallic edges, is suitable for THz imaging of dielectric sub-wavelength size objects. As a proof of concept, the effects of a small strontium titanate rectangular particle and a titanium dioxide sphere on the surface field of a bow-tie antenna are experimentally detected and verified using full-wave simulations. %Z © 2013 Author(s).. All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.