Training School in Terahertz, Infrared and Millimetre Wave technology and its Application on Sensing and Imaging

Joint School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and BM1205 and MP1204 COST Actions Training School in Terahertz, Infrared and Millimetre Wave technology and its Application on Sensing and Imaging
will be held at the University of Leeds, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Leeds, UK, from 14-16 July 2014.

Download Lecture Materials and Proceedings (PDF, 18 MB)

Organization

Training School Chairs:
Dragan Indjin, Chair of the BM1205 COST Action
Mauro Fernandes Pereira, Chair of the MP1204 COST Action

Training School Director:
Ian Robertson, Head of School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Organisation Committee:
Dragan Indjin
Paul Dean
Alexander Valavanis
Nutapong Somjit
Andrew Grier

Training School Secretary :
Sian Owen, PA to the Head of School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Programme

Download the School Programme

List of lecturers and topics includes:

  1. Sukhdeep Dhillon – Merging Quantum Cascade Lasers with THz time domain spectroscopy
  2. Alfredo Bismuto – High performance Quantum Cascade Lasers across the Mid-IR range, novel applications and challenges
  3. Vincenzo Spagnolo – Mid-IR and THz gas sensors photoacoustic spectroscopy
  4. Wojicek Knap – Physics of Teraherz Detection by Plasma Nanotransistors
  5. Feodor Kusmartsev – THz Radiation Devices made from Semiconductor Superlattices and other novel materials
  6. Vladimir Vaks – THz and IR spectroscopy for exhaled breath analysis
  7. Silvano Donati – Introduction to Self-mixing Interferometry and its Applications
  8. Massimo Brambilla – Optical feedback effects in diode and Quantum-cascade semiconductor lasers, spatiotemporal dynamics and potential applications
  9. Karl Bertling – Laser-Feedback Interferometry with Terahertz Quantum-cascade lasers and Mid-IR Interband cascade lasers
  10. Paul Dean and Alex Valavanis – Laboratory demonstration: THz QCL imaging
  11. Ian Hunter – Recent Developments in the Theory of Microwave Metamaterials
  12. Stepan Lucyszyn – Understanding Material Parameters for THz CAD Modelling
  13. Brian Ellison – Terahertz heterodyne technology used in ground and space based remote sounding
  14. John Cunningham – Time-domain measurements of lithographically defined THz waveguides for spectroscopy, imaging and sensing applications
  15. Stephen Lynch – Optics of Infrared and THz Systems
  16. Alex Valavanis – Self-consistent modelling of the electronic, optical and thermal properties of THz quantum-cascade lasers
  17. Jelena Radovanovic – Optimisation algorithms for design of THz and MIR structures
  18. Mauro Fernandes Pereira – Microscopy Theory of (TERA-MIR) THz and MIR Materials and Quantum Optics

Venue

School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, web site:

http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/electronic/

Useful link with contacts and information how to find University of Leeds campus and School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering:

http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/electronic/contact.shtml

The School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering is located in building 51 on the University of Leeds campus map. See: http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/electronic/documents/map.pdf

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