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In each of its target markets, TeraView
identifies key partners who can work with the company
to transform its core TPI™ engine into the final product
meeting customer specifications. Collaborative activities
can include engineering of end-user interfaces as well
as marketing and sales and distribution of the product.
TeraView is a partner in TeraNova,
an ambitious, 48-month, Integrated Project within
the Information Science and Technologies programme
of the
European Community’s Framework VI Research
activity. The TeraNova Consortium is made up of 18
members throughout
Europe including large companies, SMEs, Universities
and Research Centres
Begun in September 2004, TeraNova is developing new
functional components, undertaking basic scientific
research, and developing new applications in the
Terahertz region of the spectrum. Targeting healthcare,
bio-analytics,
security, process control and many other areas, the
overall objective of TeraNova is to create new knowledge,
wealth and job opportunities that can be used for
the benefit of all of Europe’s citizens. TeraView
is working on a number of emerging materials applications
and analysis techniques for non destructive evaluation
using hyperspectral imaging and scattering. We are
also collaborating with other partners on the development
of terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) able to operate
at lower frequencies and higher temperatures. Recent
achievements include QCL operation below 2THz – the
first time in the World that this has been achieved.
Published
work includes:
C. Worral, J. Alton, M.
Houghton, S. Barbieri, H. E. Beere, D. A.
Ritchie, and C. Sirtori, “Continuous
wave operation of a superlattice quantum cascade laser
emitting at 2 THz” Opt. Expr. 14, 171 (2006).
M.
C. Kemp, A. Glauser, and C. Baker, ‘Recent
developments in people screening using terahertz technology – seeing
the world through terahertz eyes’, SPIE,
6212, 2006.
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Project Coordinator: Dr Martyn Chamberlain
(m.chamberlain@ee.leeds.ac.uk)
Teravision/Teravision-EAST Administrator: Dr Karen Steenson (k.a.steenson@ee.leeds.ac.uk)
- The University of Leeds, UK
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- School of Medicine
- Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
- Femtolasers Produktions GmbH, Vienna, Austria
- Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany
- Institut für Festtkörperelektronik, Technische
Universität Wien, Austria
- Institute of Electron Technology (IET), Warsaw,
Poland
- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
(IFPAN), Warsaw, Poland
Teravision was a 3-year research
project, funded by the European Commission to develop
compact terahertz frequency systems for imaging and
other applications. The system developed utilized terahertz
generation from pulsed near infra red lasers using
suitable semiconductor (and other) "photoconverters".
Within the project a compact near
infrared laser was fabricated and a compact system
assembled capable of obtaining near real-time images.
TeraView’s role in the Teravision
consortium was to construct the world’s first
and only proof-of-principle mobile Terahertz Pulsed
Imager. The finished machine was capable of taking
a one inch square image consisting of ten thousand
spectra pixels in under five minutes.
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Project coordinator: Dr Gian Piero
Gallerano - ENEA Frascati
- ENEA- Centro Ricerche Frascati, Frascati, Italy
- Forschungzentrum, Rossendorf-Dresden, Germany
- Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- Stuttgart University, GermanyJ.W. Goethe University–Frankfurt,
Germany
- ICEmB, Italy
- National Hellenic Research Foundation– Athens,
Greece
- University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
A RTD Project in the framework of
the EU "Quality of Life" program. In this
project, terahertz (THz) radiation is used to study
structural and functional properties of biological
systems, following a streamline of increasing complexity:
from bio-molecules to cell membranes, cell nuclei and
tissues. The aim of THz-BRIDGE is also to investigate
the potential damage of electromagnetic radiation on
biological systems in the above spectral ranges, and
to guide the development of biomedical imaging at terahertz
frequencies
http://www.frascati.enea.it/THZ-BRIDGE
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Project coordinator: Dr Edmund Linfield
(ehl10@cam.ac.uk)
- University of Cambridge, UK
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia,
Italy
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
- University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
- Thales, France
The aim of the WANTED (Wireless
area networking of THz emitter and detectors) program
is to develop both terahertz emitter and detectors
which, together, could be used for wireless area networking
applications. The program was established with two
parallel paths for developing terahertz sources: the
first based on fabricating a quantum cascade laser
(QCL); the second on investigating intermixing of two
visible or two mid-infrared lasers.
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(Silicon Heterostructure INtersubband
Emitters)
Project coordinator: Dr Paul Douglas (dp109@cam.ac.uk)
- Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, Austria
- Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Universita' degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata",
Italy
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland
- Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
- Linkoepings Universitet, Sweden
- Thales, France
It is the aim of the project to
investigate and demonstrate an infrared Si/SiGe quantum
cascade laser. While the indirect bandgap of silicon
prohibits efficient recombination of electrons and
holes, inter sub and electroluminescence has been demonstrated
by Si/SiGe cascade structures. Theoretical modelling
will be used to design parallel and perpendicular injection
structures aimed at producing light amplification /
gain. Laser cavities and waveguides will also be investigated
before being combined with a gain medium to demonstrate
a laser.
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TeraView has a collaborative agreement with Bruker
Optics to aid in the distribution and support its
spectroscopy and imaging products on a non exclusive
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