Enhancing THz detectors.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: academic)

The potential of sensors and detectors operating in the terahertz (THz) range has not yet been realized because signals in that range have traditionally been incompatible with conventional microelectronics. This may soon change with the recent appointment of a 4-year, $1.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to researchers at the Univ. at Buffalo (UB), N.Y. The grant, under the NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) initiative, will help the UB researchers to develop semiconductor-based THz detectors that can be integrated seamlessly with conventional electronics.

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"We are developing new types of sensitive, electromagnetic detectors that can be used at frequencies where no reliable technology currently...

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