How to Use terahertz in a Sentence
terahertz
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Northeastern said its Teranova project is the first that will be able to test terahertz transmissions.
—Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
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What’s more, Hu says, the same strategy should enable the team to eventually make room temperature terahertz lasers.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020
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To make the jump to a many-terahertz microprocessor — that is, trillions of operations per second — some scientists are now considering augmenting electronics with optics.
—Mark K. Anderson, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2001
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In experiments, the researchers created terahertz switches on a platform of indium aluminum nitride and gallium nitride.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2023
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But optical interferometry is far trickier: The short wavelengths of visible light, running at terahertz frequencies, cannot yet be digitized by any electrical system.
—Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2018
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But compact terahertz lasers have only worked at ultralow temperatures, limiting them mostly to laboratory settings.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020
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But now Caltech researchers have succeeded in crafting terahertz-emitting silicon chips that are smaller than a dime using a standard, inexpensive electronics manufacturing technique.
—Adam Kucharski, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2013
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The tunneling transistor’s high sensitivity very quickly and effectively identifies a terahertz signal.
—Gary Fowler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
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Their experiments showed the diffractive network could successfully operate using two submillimeter-wavelength terahertz-frequency channels.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2022
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