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Terahertz 10 - Bookings open for the Terahertz - Technologies and Applications conference - to be held on 21st January at the IET, Savoy Place, London - Bringing together the academic, industry and end-user communities, this conference provides a unique opportunity to learn and discuss the latest developments in the generation, detection and applications of Terahertz frequencies. The conference builds on the previous highly successful conferences at Queen Mary, University of London (2008) and the Royal Society, London (2009). With expert presentations from IBM, TeraView, T-Ray, Universities of Leeds, Durham, QMUL, Frankfurt and Paris as well as many poster sessions and an exhibition there is an excellent opportunity to gain an international perspective on this exciting field. To register goto www.regonline.co.uk/thz10 By Nigel Rix (18/12/09) ... more

UKTI at CES2010 - Free directory listing, grants and discounted airfares for UK companies visiting CES - UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) will be exhibiting at CES 2010 in Las Vegas in January. They are producing a directory/publication for distribution at CES 2010 to promote the exhibiting and visiting UK companies. If you are exhibiting at or even just visiting CES 2010 you should contact UKTI and provide your company details. By Daniel Dearing (24/11/09) ... more

New Content in the High Power RF SIG - Two new papers (plus presentations derived from the published paper) have been added to the High Power RF Document Library. The papers are on: 1) Industrial Responses to RF Power Requirements by David M Wilcox 2) European Industry’s Potential Capabilities for High Power RF Systems for the Future ILC by David M Wilcox By Nigel Rix (19/11/09) ... more

HPRF Faraday Partnership becomes the High Power RF Special Interest Group of the Electronics KTN - Since the HPRF Faraday Partnership ceased its association with the IET on 31 March 2009, it has been reviewing its structure and operations in response to the desire of its members that it should continue. Good progress has been made in reconstituting the Partnership’s key activities through links and support from a number of organisations. We are pleased to announce that the Partnership has re-emerged as the High Power RF Special Interest Group of the Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network. This will give access to participating organisations and to the full benefits of the KTNs. By Nigel Rix (13/11/09) ... more

HPRF Faraday Partnership becomes the
High Power RF Special Interest Group of the Electronics KTN

Aims of SIG are:

• Generate and grow a world-class capability for the production and application of microwave power.
• Stimulate the exploitation of this technology in new as well as in its traditional market sectors.

The present situation of the individual groups is as follows:

Defence and Security. This is continuing as before as an inclusive national group with support from the MoD.

Accelerator Science and Technology. Agreement has been reached with the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science that the old Accelerator Club be reconstituted and funded as a part of the JAI and has been renamed the JAI Accelerator Technology Exploitation Centre.

Industrial Processing. The UK supports a highly active community of research working in the diverse fields associated with microwave heating and processing.

For more information contact
Doug Clunie: clunies@aol.com
David Wilcox: wilcox.dave@gmail.com

Terahertz 10 - Bookings open for the Terahertz - Technologies and Applications conference - to be held on 21st January at the IET, Savoy Place, London

by Nigel Rix (18 December 2009)

Bringing together the academic, industry and end-user communities, this conference provides a unique opportunity to learn and discuss the latest developments in the generation, detection and applications of Terahertz frequencies. The conference builds on the previous highly successful conferences at Queen Mary, University of London (2008) and the Royal Society, London (2009). With expert presentations from IBM, TeraView, T-Ray, Universities of Leeds, Durham, QMUL, Frankfurt and Paris as well as many poster sessions and an exhibition there is an excellent opportunity to gain an international perspective on this exciting field.

To register goto www.regonline.co.uk/thz10

The Terahertz Gap

The terahertz spectrum has a number of exciting properties:
it is non-ionising (and therefore safer than comparable technologies such as X-ray)
metal reflects
optically opaque or semi-opaque materials can appear transparent (such as some glasses, packaging, soil, brick, fabrics etc)
many substances have a readily identifiable frequency “fingerprints” so identification and inspection solutions are possible

These frequencies sit between mid-infrared and microwave frequencies (200Ghz – 30Thz) in the ‘gap’ between electronics and optics systems. Recent technological developments, both in electronics and optics, are closing this ‘gap’ facilitating new products and solutions.

Terahertz Applications

Early adopters needing non-destructive testing (NDT), imaging and substance identification in industries as diverse as military, aerospace, pharmaceutical, healthcare, food & drink, semiconductors and specialist communications are all starting to employ terahertz based solutions. For example: the technology is now used routinely for inspection of NASA’s space shuttle heat shield foam. Emerging terahertz based products are starting to work at full production speeds.

Who should Attend?

This event has been designed to educate and enthuse paticipants, across a variety of industries and research areas, on the potential and reality of terahertz technologies. In addition to the presentations there will be a mini exhibition and poster session to stimulate knowledge transfer and networking between delegates.

Everyone interested in the applications of terahertz radiation, or wanting to become informed to be able to monitor and assess the development of the technology and products, will gain a good level of understanding and useful contacts by attending this event.

With contributions from Canada, Israel, Germany, France, as well as the UK, the conference will reflect developments in the sector from around the world. Whether industrialist or researcher, current or potential user - or even just curious - you will find this a useful, interesting and stimulating day.

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