Process development for the fabrication of terahertz transmitter and receiver photoconductive antennas.

太赫兹发射器和接收器光电导天线制造的工艺开发。

• 批准号: 501093-2016
• 负责人: Wasilewski, Zbigniew
• 金额: $ 17.48万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=618457
• 关键词: Process; development; fabrication; terahertz; transmitter

Terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves have frequencies of order 10^12 Hz and wavelengths in the range of 100 micrometers. Terahertz spectroscopy for material imaging/sensing and characterization has received a great deal of attention over the past decade. It has been shown that many materials including organic materials, explosives, pharmaceutical compounds and biological agents have distinct signatures in the terahertz frequencies. Consequently, THz technology has many potential applications in areas such as pharmaceutical industry, food industry, organic light emitters manufacturing, security, aerospace, oil industry, medical imaging, medicine, as well as ultra-high-data-rate wireless communications. The distinct characteristics of THz radiation, along with recent advances in the enabling technologies behind, have created the opportunity for the terahertz technology to provide unique solutions to many critical industrial problems. TeTechS Inc. (www.tetechs.com) is a terahertz technology solution company committed to developing terahertz sensor and imaging systems for industrial and scientific applications. TeTechS Inc. is currently offering a variety of leading-edge terahertz products ranging from photo-conductive antenna chips to terahertz spectroscopy systems, to industry and academic customers worldwide. The current project aims to fabricate next generation photo-conductive antenna (PCA) transmitter and receiver chips. The innovative device design along with new highly advanced nano-scale material structures will offer considerably improved device performance: faster response time, greatly enhanced sensitivity and easy deployment in the field of application thanks to compatibility with telecom fiber-optic cables.

太赫兹 (THz) 电磁波的频率为 10^12 Hz 量级，波长在 100 微米范围内。用于材料成像/传感和表征的太赫兹光谱在过去十年中受到了广泛关注。研究表明，许多材料，包括有机材料、炸药、药物化合物和生物制剂，在太赫兹频率上都具有明显的特征。因此，太赫兹技术在制药工业、食品工业、有机发光体制造、安全、航空航天、石油工业、医学成像、医学以及超高数据速率无线通信等领域具有许多潜在的应用。太赫兹辐射的独特特征以及背后支持技术的最新进展，为太赫兹技术创造了机会，为许多关键的工业问题提供独特的解决方案。 TeTechS Inc. (www.tetechs.com) 是一家太赫兹技术解决方案公司，致力于开发用于工业和科学应用的太赫兹传感器和成像系统。 TeTechS Inc. 目前正在向全球工业和学术客户提供各种领先的太赫兹产品，从光电导天线芯片到太赫兹光谱系统。当前的项目旨在制造下一代光电导天线（PCA）发射器和接收器芯片。创新的器件设计以及新型高度先进的纳米级材料结构将显着提高器件性能：响应时间更快，灵敏度大大提高，并且由于与电信光纤电缆的兼容性而易于在应用领域部署。