Laboratory for Terahertz Research

Areas of Research

• Interactions of terahertz waves with semiconductor, dielectric, composite materials, including nano-sized and metamaterials.

• Theoretical analysis and experimental study of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with multicomponent nanostructured composite environments to develop materials for passive components, effectively transforming radiations of terahertz and subterahertz bands.

• Natural environments (solid, liquid, gas) in the fields of terahertz and gigahertz bands.

• Interaction of terahertz waves with artificial and natural objects of different shapes and conductivity: hyperfine threadlike film materials, small lenses, anisotropic materials;

• Electronic database elements of terahertz bands (emitters, detectors, multipliers, transmitters, etc.);

• Use of terahertz radio waves in devices for contactless radiowave diagnostics, non-destructive testing, biomedical instrumentation.

• Field localization effects in arficial dielectric and metamaterials in THz.

• Photonic terajet effect and applications (including acoustic).

Partners

1. Research Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus).

2. Institute of Physical Materials Science, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia)

3. Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (NIIC, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia).

4. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia).

5. Department for Structural Macrokinetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia).

6. L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciencesn (Krasnoyarsk, Russia).

7. OJSC SPP Radio (Krasnoyarsk, Russia).

8. OJSC SPC Polyus (Tomsk, Russia).

Services

Research in the field of electromagnetic response and electromagnetic parameters of natural and artificial materials in a wide range of electromagnetic radiation frequencies.

Equipment

• Device for measuring dielectric permeability by condenser method and magnetic permeability by inductive method on the basis of a precision LRC meter Е4380А (Agilent Technologies) within 20 Hz – 2 MHz frequency range

• An experimental setup on the basis of E8363V network analyzer (Agilent Technologies) for measurement of S-parameters within 0.01-40 GHz frequency range. Sample cells: coaxial, waveguide, cavity resonators, irregular microstrip resonators, open resonators

• An experimental setup on the basis of N5247A vector network analyzer (Agilent Technologies) to study electromagnetic response within 0.01–67 GHz frequency range

• CTD-21 terahertz spectrometer to study absolute values of electromagnetic response within 0.03–1.5 THz frequency range (using continuous harmonic signal with power less than about 100 mV)

• Terahertz Pulse Time Domain Spectrometer (THz-TDS, Newport) to measure the absolute value and phase of THz beam within 100 GHz – 10 THz frequency range (using pulse signal with power up to 1 V)

• UV-IR spectrometers (13.6–200 THz, 150–750 THz)

Centre of Excellence