Emerging Trends in Terahertz Engineering and System Technologies: Devices, Materials, Imaging, Data Acquisition and Processing

✍ Scribed by Arindam Biswas (editor), Amit Banerjee (editor), Aritra Acharyya (editor), Hiroshi Inokawa (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book highlights emerging trends in terahertz engineering and system technologies, mainly, devices, advanced materials, and various applications in THz technology. It includes advanced topics such as terahertz biomedical imaging, pattern recognition and tomographic reconstruction for THz biomedical imaging by use of machine learning and artificial intelligence, THz imaging radars for autonomous vehicle applications, THZ imaging system for security and surveillance. It also discusses theoretical, experimental, established and validated empirical work on these topics and the intended audience is both academic and professional.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
A Novel Integrated Power Module with Solid-State Diode at THz Frequency—The Concept and a Possible Way to Realize It
1 Introduction
2 Conceptual Visualization of the Integrated Power Module
2.1 Resonant-Cap Oscillator
2.2 Microstrip Patch Antenna
2.3 IMPATT Diode
2.4 The Integrated Power Module
3 Analytical Modelling to Realize the Power Module
3.1 Analytical Characterization of Resonant-Cap Cavity
4 Device-Circuit Interaction and Oscillator Characterization
5 Characterization of the Radiation Properties of the Improvised Slotted-Disc Microstrip Patch Antenna
6 Conclusion
References
Effects of Space Charges in IMPATT Source at Terahertz Regime
1 Introduction
2 Numerical Method and Design Parameters
3 Results and Discussion
4 Conclusion
References
Performance Estimation of Defected Ternary Photonic Crystal-Based Bandpass Filter Beyond 100 THz for All-Optical Circuit
1 Introduction
2 Objective
3 Results and Discussions
4 Conclusion
References
Terahertz Radiation from Gallium Phosphide Avalanche Transit Time Sources
1 Introduction
2 Structure and Fabrication Steps
3 Simulation
4 Lower Frequency THz Radiators
5 Performance at Higher THz Frequencies
6 Summary
References
Influence of Terahertz Frequency on the Elastic Constants in 2D Systems
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical Background
3 Results and Discussion
4 Conclusion
References
The Carrier Statistics, Terahertz Frequency, Extremely Degenerate Opto-electronic Materials and All That
1 Introduction
2 Results and Discussion
3 Conclusion
References
OFDM for Terahertz Wireless Communication Systems
1 Introduction
2 Principe of OFDM
3 Description of Signal OFDM
4 Baseband OFDM Signal
5 Theoretical Analysis of OFDM Tranceiver
5.1 Guard Interval
5.2 Analytical Calculation of the Power Spectral Density
6 Characteristics of the OFDM Signal
6.1 OFDM Signal Distribution
6.2 Definition and PAPR Analysis
6.3 Frequency Equalization
7 Advantages and Drawback of OFDM System
7.1 Advantages
7.2 Drawbacks
8 Numerical Results and Discussions
8.1 Structure of OFDM Transceiver
8.2 Simulation Parameters
8.3 Channel Model
8.4 Numerical Results
9 Conclusion
References
All Optical Universal Logic TAND Gate Using a Single Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifier at 2 Tbit/s
1 Introduction
2 Working Principle of the TAND Gate
3 Modeling and Results of Simulations
4 TAND as a Universal Logic
4.1 NOT Gate
4.2 AND Gate
4.3 OR Gate
5 Conclusions
References
TOAD-Based Frequency-Encoded All Optical XOR Gate, Half Adder, and Half Subtractor
1 Introduction
2 Working Principle of TOAD
3 Frequency-Encoded XOR Gate for SUM Generation
4 Frequency-Encoded AND Gate for Carry Generation
5 Frequency-Encoded Half Adder
6 Frequency-Encoded Half Subtractor
7 Simulation and Result
8 Conclusions
References
Highly Efficient Ultra-Wide Band MIMO Patch Antenna Array for Short Range THz Applications
1 Introduction
2 Design of Single Antenna Element for Terahertz Applications
2.1 Design of Proposed Single Antenna Element
2.2 Performance Evaluation of Proposed Antenna
3 MIMO Antenna for THz Applications
3.1 Design of 4 × 2 MIMO Antenna Array for Short-Range Wireless Terahertz Wireless
4 State-of-Art-of Comparison
5 Conclusion
6 Acknowledements
References
Ga2O3 Based Heterostructure FETs (HFETs) for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Applications
1 Introduction
2 Properties of β-Ga2O3
3 Defects, Scattering, and Transport Properties in β-Ga2O3
4 β-Ga2O3 Based Heterostructure Devices
4.1 β-(AlxGa1−x)2O3/Ga2O3 MODFETs
4.2 III-Nitrides/β-Ga2O3 Heterostructure
5 Conclusion
References