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
List of lecturers and topics includes:
- Sukhdeep Dhillon – Merging Quantum Cascade Lasers with THz time domain spectroscopy
- Alfredo Bismuto – High performance Quantum Cascade Lasers across the Mid-IR range, novel applications and challenges
- Vincenzo Spagnolo – Mid-IR and THz gas sensors photoacoustic spectroscopy
- Wojicek Knap – Physics of Teraherz Detection by Plasma Nanotransistors
- Feodor Kusmartsev – THz Radiation Devices made from Semiconductor Superlattices and other novel materials
- Vladimir Vaks – THz and IR spectroscopy for exhaled breath analysis
- Silvano Donati – Introduction to Self-mixing Interferometry and its Applications
- Massimo Brambilla – Optical feedback effects in diode and Quantum-cascade semiconductor lasers, spatiotemporal dynamics and potential applications
- Karl Bertling – Laser-Feedback Interferometry with Terahertz Quantum-cascade lasers and Mid-IR Interband cascade lasers
- Paul Dean and Alex Valavanis – Laboratory demonstration: THz QCL imaging
- Ian Hunter – Recent Developments in the Theory of Microwave Metamaterials
- Stepan Lucyszyn – Understanding Material Parameters for THz CAD Modelling
- Brian Ellison – Terahertz heterodyne technology used in ground and space based remote sounding
- John Cunningham – Time-domain measurements of lithographically defined THz waveguides for spectroscopy, imaging and sensing applications
- Stephen Lynch – Optics of Infrared and THz Systems
- Alex Valavanis – Self-consistent modelling of the electronic, optical and thermal properties of THz quantum-cascade lasers
- Jelena Radovanovic – Optimisation algorithms for design of THz and MIR structures
- 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
Suggested Hotels Close to the University
Info at the University of Leeds Website
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Further list of hotels
www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/144/Leeds-Central-hotel
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