Terahertz techniques encompass a set of experimental and analytical methods that generate, manipulate, and detect electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (THz) frequency range, typically 0.1–10 THz, for probing material properties and dynamical processes. Core approaches include time-domain spectroscopy using ultrafast lasers and nonlinear crystals or photoconductive antennas, frequency-domain spectroscopy with continuous-wave THz sources, and imaging modalities exploiting THz transmission, reflection, or near-field interactions. These techniques enable characterization of low-energy excitations, carrier dynamics, vibrational and rotational modes, and dielectric responses in solids, liquids, gases, and biological tissues, often with depth resolution and spectroscopic contrast.
How could we noninvasively distinguish between healthy and cancerous tissue? And how could we increase the speed of wireless communications? These two seemingly unrelated questions may share the same answer: terahertz (THz) ...
Optics & Photonics
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Scientists have demonstrated a noninvasive technique that uses light to reveal the hidden contents of chicken eggs, potentially helping to curb the meat industry's practice of killing billions of male chicks at birth. The ...
Biotechnology
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The terahertz (THz) frequency regime, sitting between microwaves and infrared light, has long promised revolutionary advances in wireless communication, security imaging and nondestructive sensing. A key roadblock, however, ...
Nanophysics
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Biophotonics is a multidisciplinary field that involves the development and application of light-based technologies to study, monitor and treat biological systems. The ability to directly image cells and molecules has led ...
Biotechnology
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Being able to see light and detect radiation is of utmost importance at any frequency. While this challenge has been solved in the visible range, radiation detectors in the far-infrared and terahertz regimes are either not ...
Optics & Photonics
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Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a novel image projection system that delivers super-resolution images over an extended depth of field. By combining a neural network-based digital ...
Optics & Photonics
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In new research published in Nature Materials, a team of researchers led by Columbia University chemist Xiaoyang Zhu, in collaboration with fellow Columbians Xavier Roy, Milan Delor, Dmitri Basov, and James McIver, has observed ...
Condensed Matter
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A two-dimensional lamellar crystal composed of atomically thin layers of lead iodide (PbI2) could be used to manufacture a new generation of circuits that use light and mechanical vibrations (rather than electrons) to transmit ...
Condensed Matter
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Today, I want to walk you through a deceptively simple innovation from the lab at Loughborough University (PI: Prof Marco Peccianti): what happens when we decorate a spintronic heterostructure with a sparse layer of plasmonic ...
A tiny crystal chip which uses terahertz radiation to see clearly through a wide range of materials could find applications in health care, biological research, and security screening. Researchers from Scotland and Japan ...
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