Abstract
The terahertz conductivities of plates of Cu and Al were measured to remain the same at 295 and 77K using waveguide terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). This result was true for a variety of commercial alloys and surface preparations. Consequently, carrier scattering by lattice defects within the 100nm THz skin depth is much larger than scattering by phonons at room temperature. However, an exception was found to be the THz skin-depth layer of an evaporated 300nm Al film in contact with a polished Si surface. For this interface Al layer, the conductivity increased by a factor of 4 when cooled to 77K.
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