Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structures

A Redo-Sanchez, B Heshmat, A Aghasi, S Naqvi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Spatial resolution, spectral contrast and occlusion are three major bottlenecks for non-
invasive inspection of complex samples with current imaging technologies. We exploit the …

Highly accurate optical material parameter determination with THz time-domain spectroscopy

I Pupeza, R Wilk, M Koch - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We improve the existing data extraction algorithms for THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz
TDS) in two aspects. On the one hand, we merge the up-to-date knowledge of THz TDS …

Review of THz-based semiconductor assurance

J True, C Xi, N Jessurun, K Ahi… - Optical …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Terahertz radiation for inspection and fault detection has been of interest for the
semiconductor industry since the first generation and detection of THz signals. Until recent …

Highly accurate THz time-domain spectroscopy of multilayer structures

R Wilk, I Pupeza, R Cernat… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We extract the optical material parameters of a layer within a multilayer sample from
terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy data. To this aim, we derive a suited transfer …

Identification of heavy metal pollutants in wheat by THz spectroscopy and deep support vector machine

H Ge, X Ji, X Lu, M Lv, Y Jiang, Z Jia… - Spectrochimica Acta Part A …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes to detect heavy metal pollutants in wheat using terahertz spectroscopy
and deep support vector machine (DSVM). Five heavy metal pollutants, arsenic, lead …

Identification of biological tissue using chirped probe THz imaging

B Ferguson, S Wang, D Gray, D Abbott… - Microelectronics Journal, 2002 - Elsevier
We consider the application of pulsed THz imaging systems in biomedical diagnostics and
mail/packaging inspection. The sub-millimetre spectroscopic measurements obtained from T …

Terahertz time-of-flight tomography beyond the axial resolution limit: autoregressive spectral estimation based on the modified covariance method

M Zhai, A Locquet, C Roquelet, DS Citrin - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter …, 2020 - Springer
We present a time-of-flight tomography method for exceeding the naïve axial (ie, depth)
resolution limit of terahertz (THz) deconvolution by autoregressive spectral extrapolation …

Restoration of integrated circuit terahertz image based on wavelet denoising technique and the point spread function model

Z Zhang, Y Lu, C Lv, Q Mao, S Wang, S Yan - Optics and Lasers in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, terahertz (THz) imaging technology has attracted much attention in the
detection of the integrated circuit (IC). However, limited by the hardware of the imaging …

Material parameter extraction for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy using fixed-point iteration

W Withayachumnankul, B Ferguson… - Photonic materials …, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A simple method to extract the far-infrared dielectric parameters of a homogeneous material
from terahertz signals is explored in this paper. Provided with a reference, sample-probing …

Compound explosives detection and component analysis via terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

J Choi, SY Ryu, WS Kwon, KS Kim… - Journal of the Optical …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present qualitative and quantitative component analyses on compound explosives via
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) based on a combination of wavelet …