Photon16 - Call for abstracts - THz Applications

This years Photon 16 Conference will be hosting a session on Terahertz Near-Field Interactions, with the aim of organising a focused, stimulating and productive discussion of recent advances in this area of research.
Whether you develop THz sensors that take advantage of near-field coupling, investigate interactions within THz metamaterials or enable sub-wavelength spatial resolution using THz near-field microscopy methods, this meeting will be a fantastic opportunity to present your recent achievements and share your ideas.

Photon 16 is the largest photonics conference in the UK, and will take place in Leeds on 5th-8th September, 2016.

Full details are available here

Active Control of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Analog in Terahertz MEMS Metamaterial

Prakash Pitchappa ; Manukumara Manjappa ; Chong Pei Ho ; Ranjan Singh ; Navab Singh ; Chengkuo Lee

Abstract

Independent control of near-field-coupled bright and dark resonators for active modulation and frequency tuning of electromagnetically induced transparency analog in terahertz spectral region is experimentally demonstrated. Out-of-plane reconfigurable microcantilever is the active element for resonator control. The proposed metamaterial is miniaturized, electrically controlled, and can achieve up to an order of magnitude change in THz group-delay bandwidth product.

Full article here

Innovate UK 2016 - Emerging Imaging Showcase

TeraView's Mike Evans will be giving a talk at this years Innovate UK event discussing the recent project 'Sensor Array for Terahertz Imaging in Non-destructive test' (SATIN), a collaboration between TeraView and The Engineering & Computing Science Department at the University of Durham, which focused on non-destructive testing for industrial applications.

The event itself is hosted by Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network and will be held on Tuesday, 26 January 2016, in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Event Details

To celebrate the successful conclusion of the projects funded by Innovate UK under the Emerging Imaging call, “Seeing more than before”, Innovate UK and the KTN are pleased to host a showcase event for each of the projects. 

The event will give you a chance to hear from each of the project teams on the work they have done and the benefit their technology can bring to your problems.

You will also hear from our access to finance team about the opportunities to appear on our new investor showcase platform – the growth showcase and there will also be an overview of the current and future european funding opportunities from the Enterprise Europe Network.

For those companies receiving Innovate UK grants, there will be a chance to speak to the access to finance team to discuss options for accessing the investor market.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emerging-imaging-showcase-tickets-19706404386

OMICS International Best Poster Award

TeraView would like to congratulate Dan Sporea, Laura Mihai, Adelina Sporea and Ion Vata on being presented with the Best Poster Award at the Third International Conference and Exhibition on Lasers, Optics and Photonics, for their paper entitled:

‘Testing of ZnSe, CaF₂, BaF₂ and sapphire windows under alpha particles irradiation’

Our TPS Spectra 3000 was used by the team to investigate IR materials under ionizing radiation exposure, and is the first time that such materials have been studied under alpha particle irradiation and Terahertz.

Terahertz filter integrated with a subwavelength structured antireflection coating

Abstract

Micro-pyramid shaped subwavelength structures (SWSs) were integrated on both sides of a terahertz (THz) filter by means of stamping methods. Two silicon-based stamping molds fabricated via crystallographic wet etching were utilized to replicate SWSs onto cyclo-olefin copolymer (COC) films coated onto both sides of a THz filter at the same time. The SWSs act as an broadband antireflection coating to reduce the surfacereflection loss in a frequency range of 0.2 THz to 1.4 THz. Compared to a THz filter without SWSs, the filter integrated with double-sided SWSs exhibits a low standing wave ratio inside the substrate and THz signal transmission enhancement of up to 10.8%.

Full article available here