The detection of agricultural products and food using terahertz spectroscopy: a review

J Qin, Y Ying, L Xie - Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Demand for high levels of quality and safety in agricultural products and food requires
appropriate analytical techniques for analysis both during and after production. Desirable …

Metamaterials in the terahertz regime

W Withayachumnankul, D Abbott - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metamaterials are artificial composites that acquire their electromagnetic properties from
embedded subwavelength metallic structures. In theory, the effective electromagnetic …

Identification and classification of chemicals using terahertz reflective spectroscopic focal-plane imaging system

H Zhong, A Redo-Sanchez, XC Zhang - Optics express, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We present terahertz (THz) reflective spectroscopic focal-plane imaging of four explosive
and bio-chemical materials (2, 4-DNT, Theophylline, RDX and Glutamic Acid) at a standoff …

T-ray sensing and imaging

W Withayachumnankul, GM Png, X Yin… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
T-ray wavelengths are long enough to pass through dry, nonpolar objects opaque at visible
wavelengths, but short enough to be manipulated by optical components to form an image …

T-ray sensing applications: review of global developments

TJ Rainsford, SP Mickan… - Smart Structures, Devices …, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Terahertz wavelengths can pass through dry, non-polar, non-metallic materials that are
opaque at visible wavelengths. Moreover they can be manipulated using millimeter wave …

Preparation and Optical Properties of Nd:Bi2Ti2O7 Laser Crystal with Disordered Structure and Attractive Multiwavelength Emission Characteristics

M Fan, G Wu, X Duan, Y Li, C Wang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Laser crystals with multiwavelength emission characteristics are potential light sources for
terahertz radiation. Herein, the pure and Nd-doped Bi2Ti2O7 (BTO) laser crystals with sizes …

Detection of foreign-body in milk powder processing based on terahertz imaging and spectrum

J Hu, Z Xu, M Li, Y He, X Sun, Y Liu - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and …, 2021 - Springer
The safety of milk powder is closely related to everyone's life. In the production of milk
powder, it is often easy to mix in foreign bodies, such as light and thin plastic, insects …

Classification of THz pulse signals using two-dimensional cross-correlation feature extraction and non-linear classifiers

X Yin, S Hadjiloucas, Y Zhang - Computer methods and programs in …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work provides a performance comparison of four different machine learning classifiers:
multinomial logistic regression with ridge estimators (MLR) classifier, k-nearest neighbours …

Polarization-maintaining reflection-mode THz time-domain spectroscopy of a polyimide based ultra-thin narrow-band metamaterial absorber

MD Astorino, R Fastampa, F Frezza, L Maiolo… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
This paper reports the design, the microfabrication and the experimental characterization of
an ultra-thin narrow-band metamaterial absorber at terahertz frequencies. The metamaterial …

Laser-based detection methods of explosives

CA Munson, JL Gottfried, FC De Lucia Jr… - … Detection Techniques of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Lasers offer multiple approaches for explosive detection that are not
possible with other techniques. In general, these can be separated into two types: those …