Plasmonics book gives overview of technology that could revolutionize computing
...erating at the frequencies of visible light and at terahertz frequencies....T-ray breakthrough could make detecting disease far easier
...gh in the harnessing of 'T-rays' - electromagnetic terahertz waves - which could dramatically improve the dete... said they have found a way to control the flow of terahertz radiation down a metal wire. Their findings are set out in a letter published in the current journal...Terahertz imaging may reduce breast cancer surgeries
...plored region of the electromagnetic spectrum--the terahertz region--to examine excised breast tissue and deter...ples to get clear surgical margins. "We found that terahertz light could reliably distinguish between normal breast tissue, tumor and even early-stage 'in situ' ...... radiation at a record highfrequency of around 100 terahertz (equivalently, a 3-micronwavelength), in the infrared portion of the electromagneticspectrum. The material does not yet exhibit a negative index ofrefraction, and there is no "perfect lensing" of the 3-micronwavelength radiation, but the Karlsruhe-I...