Physics and Applications of Terahertz Radiation

Matteo Perenzoni received the Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Padua, Padua, Italy, in 2002. In 2002, he was with the University of Padua, working on the design of integrated circuit for analog channel decoders. Since January 2004, he has been with the Center for Materials and Microsystems of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-CMM), Trento, Italy, as a Researcher working in the Smart Optical Sensors and Interfaces research unit. He is in charge of the research line taking care of readout circuits and interfaces for X-ray, infrared and THz sensors. He collaborates on teaching courses of electronics and sensors for the ICT Doctoral School, Trento. He has been Director of 6th Optoelectronics and Photonics Winter School – Physics and Applications of T-Rays. He is reviewer for several scientific journals on integrated circuits and sensors. His research interests include the design of advanced vision sensors for X-ray, visible, infrared, andterahertz wavelengths, as well as modeling and optimization of analog integrated circuits. Douglas Paul has an MA degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics and a PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a chartered physicist, a Senior Member of the IEEE, was a Fellow of St. Edmund's College in Cambridge, an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship and managed all the Si/SiGe research in the Cavendish Laboratory before taking up a Professorial position at the University of Glasgow in 2007. He has or presently sits on a number of government department advisory committees including the Home Office, DTI Foresight , Government Office of Science , the Defence Scientific Advisory Council and was the U.K. representative to the NATO CBP Science Panel between 2004 and 2008. He was one of the editors for the 1st Technology Roadmap on European Nanoelectronics, a significant part of which is now in the ITRS Roadmap Future Emerging Technology section and gave evidence at the House of Lords to the Lords Select Committee panel on 'Chips for Everything'. He sits on the scientific, programme and / or organising committees for a number of international conference series including the International IEEE LEOS Conference on Group IV Photonics, the International SiGe Technology and Device Meeting, the Electrochemical Society SiGe Conferences and the International Conference on Silicon Epitaxy and Heterostructures. Prof Paul is on the Editorial Board of the IoP Semiconductor Science and Technology journal. His research interests include Si/SiGe heterostructures, CMOS, quantum cascade lasers, quantum devices, silicon photonics, terahertz systems, inorganic molecular electronics and thermoelectrics.

THz Detectors.- 1 Quantum Well Photodetectors; Fabrizio Castellano.- 2 Bolometric Detectors; François Simoens.- 3 Terahertz Plasma Field-Effect Transistors; Wojciech Knap, Dominique Coquillat, Nina Dyakonova, Dmitry But, Taiichi Otsuji and Frederic Teppe.- THz Sources.- 4 Quantum Cascade Lasers; Douglas Paul.- 5 Relativistic Electrons Based Sources; Andrea Doria.- 6 Non-linear Optical Generation; Graeme Malcolm, David A. Walsh, Marc Chateauneuf.- Systems and Applications.- 7 THz Control with Metamaterials; David R. S. Cumming, Timothy D. Drysdale, James P. Grant.- 8 Time Domain Spectroscopy; Jean-François Roux, Frederic Garet, Jean-Louis Coutaz.- 9 Security and Safety; Roger Appleby, Martyn Chamberlain.