Foam that popped off the shuttle Discovery, halting future missions, was inspected before launching using new imaging technology adapted by scientists at Langley Research Center.
As NASA prepares for Tuesday’s planned launch of the first space shuttle in more than two years, a Michigan company is playing a role in checking the safety of the vehicle’s insulation. Among its products is a terahertz, or T-Ray machine, that NASA used to scan the foam insulation on the Discovery’s fuel tank.
A UK start-up has developed a new type of security scanner that exploits terahertz waves. ThruVision has started trialing its terahertz imaging technology at an airport in the UK.
International School of Solid State Physics welcomes you to the 35th Workshop: Physics and Technology of THz Photonics which will be held from July 20 to July 26, 2005 in Erice, Italy.
A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is available at Syracuse University.
International Conference on Quantum Electronics 2005 and the Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2005 (IQEC/CLEO-PR 2005) will be held on July 11-15 at Toshi Center Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan in conjunction with the technical exhibition: InterOpto 2005.
With the mass transit systems in Britain and the United States on high alert, the best available defense the governments can provide against a terrorist armed with a bomb is decidedly low-tech: vigilance with dogs, video cameras and security officers. Terahertz devices may be promising since they could sound an alarm if someone entering a subway or train station had traces of elements used in bombs on them. But such machines are years away from being ready for use, one Homeland Security official said.
Last week’s events show that we must be vigilant and innovative in reducing the threat from terrorism. That means finding better ways of scanning people for hidden weapons and bombs. T-cameras may be the answer.
Studying drug coatings is just one use the pharmaceutical industry has found for terahertz radiation. John Paul Cerroti, vice-president of product development at Teraview, tells Jacqueline Hewett about its current research and potential markets for the technology.
Researchers have made a nanowire device that can detect microwave radiation up to 110 GHz at room temperature. The team, from the University of Manchester, UK, VTT Information Technology, Finland, University of Würzburg, Germany, University of Salamanca, Spain, and Lund University, Sweden, believes the devices could have applications in detecting terahertz radiation and in plastic electronics.
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