Features of Propagation and Absorption of Electromagnetic Signals in Periodic Structures of Conducting and Dielectric Layers

Different regimes of electromagnetic signal transmission through heterostructures formed by a sequence of conducting and non-conducting layers are discussed for various ratios between the frequency of radiation and the transport frequency of electron scattering in the conducting layers. Possibility to increase the efficiency of detecting or filtering electromagnetic radiation in a wide range of frequency range (from subTHz to far IR) in such structures is analyzed.