Emerging Trends in Terahertz Solid-State Physics and Devices

Dr. Arindam Biswas received his M.Tech. in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta, India, in 2010, and Ph.D. from NIT Durgapur, in 2013. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Pusan National University, South Korea, under the prestigious BK21PLUS Fellowship. He was a Visiting Professor at Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Japan. Currently, Dr. Biswas is working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mines and Metallurgy, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. His research interests are in the area of carrier transport in low-dimensional systems and electronic devices, nonlinear optical communications and THz semiconductor sources.  Dr. Amit Banerjee received his Ph.D. in Semiconductor Technology from the Energy Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. He joined the Advanced Device Research Division, Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, National University Corporation, Japan, as a Scientific Researcher in 2016 and was also part of the Innovative Photonics Evolution Research Center at Hamamatsu, Japan. He later joined the Microelectronic Technologies & Devices, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His current work is on Terahertz Technology, including THz devices (sensors and sources) fabrication, materials engineering and optimization for surveillance, inspection, biomedical, imaging and deep space exploration applications.  Dr. Aritra Acharyya obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication at Cooch Behar Government Engineering College, West Bengal. His research interests are in the area of high-frequency semiconductor devices.  Prof. Hiroshi Inokawa received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. In 1985, he joined the Atsugi Electrical Communications Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Kanagawa, Japan. Since then, he has been engaged in the research and development of scaled-down CMOS devices and silicon single-electron devices. During the course of his research, he invented the basic structure of FinFET and single-electron multiple-valued logic. In 2006, he became a Professor of the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, where he has been studying nanodevices for advanced circuits and systems.  Dr. Jitendra Nath Roy received his Ph.D. in Physics from Vidyasagar University, India. Presently, he is working as a Professor and Dean (science) in the Department of Physics at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. His current research interest is in terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) based switch in computing, communication and control.

Chapter 1 - THz Bandpass Filter Design using Metamaterial-based Defected 1D Photonic Crystal Structure (Dr. Angsuman Sarkar).- Chapter 2 - Terahertz Radiators Based on Silicon Carbide Avalanche Transit Time Sources – Part I: Large-Signal Characteristics (Dr. Aritra Acharyya).- Chapter 3 - Terahertz Radiators Based on Silicon Carbide Avalanche Transit Time Sources – Part II: Avalanche Noise Characteristics (Dr. Aritra Acharyya).- Chapter 4 - RF Performance of Ultra Wide Band Gap HEMTs (Dr. T R Lenka).- Chapter 5 - Potentiality of Impact Avalanche Transit Time diode as Terahertz Source based on Group-IV and III-V semiconducting materials (Girish Chandra Ghivela).- Chapter 6 - Analysis of InN based Surrounded gate tunnel field effect transistor for terahertz applications (Dr. Nitai Paitya).- Chapter 7 - Thermoelectric Power in Heavily Doped Nano-Structures In The Presence of  Terahertz Radiation (K P Ghatak).- Chapter 8 - Heterostructure Devices for THz Signal Recognition (Dr. ManasChand).- Chapter 9 - Data transmission with Terahertz Communication Systems (Dr. Sudipta Das).- Chapter 10 - Advances in Terahertz Imaging (Dr. Arijit Saha).- Chapter 11 - Terahertz emission mechanisms in III-V semiconductors: The influence of isoelectronic dopants (Rajeev N. Kini and C. P. Vaisakh).- Chapter 12 - Group III – Nitride and other semiconductor for terahertz detector(Bijit Choudhuri and Aniruddha Mondal).

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