Terahertz Frequency Detection and Identification of Materials and Objects

Theme 1. Devices

1. Terahertz Emission from Semiconductors Excited by Ultrafast Laser Pulses
Arunas Krotkus, R. Adomavicius, Vitaly Malevich

2. Terahertz Generation by Multiplication
Jan Stake, Tomas Bryllert, T. Arezoo Emadi, Josip Vukusic

3. Towards Superlattice Terahertz Amplifiers and Lasers
Alvydas Lisauskas, Ernst Mohler, Hartmut G. Roskos, Nataliya V. Demarina

4. Tailoring the Emission of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Richard Green, Lukas Mahler, Cosimo Mauro, Tonia Losco, Ji-Hua Xu, Alessandro Tredicucci, Fabio Beltram, Harvey Beere, David Ritchie

5. Guided Propagation of Terahertz Pulses on Metal Wires
Kanglin Wang, Daniel M. Mittleman

6. Superlattice and Other Negative-Differential-Resistance Devices: Current Status
Heribert Eisele

Theme 2. Interactions with Materials

7. Molecular and Organic Interactions
A. G. Davies, E. H. Linfield

8. Terahertz Beam Interactions with Amorphous Materials
Mira Naftaly, Robert E. Miles

9. Development of Tagless Biosensors for Detecting the Presence of Pathogens
Jing–Yin Chen, Joseph R. Knab, Shuji Ye, Yunfen He, Andrea G. Markelz

Theme 3. Detection and Sensing

10. Improvements to Electronic Techniques for Terahertz Spectroscopic Detection
Daniel W. van der Weide, Alan D. Bettermann, Min K. Choi, John Grade

11. Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Crystalline and Aqueous Systems
Peter Uhd Jepsen, Hannes Merbold, Zhengxin Li, Xiaoyu Xing, Stewart Clark

12. Continuous-Wave Terahertz Photomixer Systems for Real-World Applications
Ian S. Gregory, Hideaki Page, Lee Spencer

Theme 4. Systems for Security

13. Systems Requirements for A Multi-Channel Terahertz Contraband Scanner
William S. Truscott

14. Challenges to Terahertz Counter-Terrorism and Security-Related Applications
Howard Cummins

15. Terahertz Detection of Illegal Objects
Roger Appleby, Peter R. Coward, Gordon N. Sinclair

16. Terahertz Rays to Detect Drugs of Abuse
Kodo Kawase, Adrian Dobroiu, Masatsugu Yamashita, Yoshiaki Sasaki, Chiko Otani

17. Terahertz Spectroscopy for Explosive, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Sensing Applications
Hai-Bo Liu, Xi-Cheng Zhang

18. Terahertz Communications: A 2020 vision
Martin Koch

Theme 5. Overview

19. Applied Terahertz Science: The Technology of the Future, and Always Will Be?
Martyn Chamberlain

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Keywords: SCIENCE / Chemistry / General SCI013000