Award Abstract # 0832304
Collaborative Research: THz Application Center Planning Grant

NSF Org: EEC
Division of Engineering Education and Centers
Recipient: OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: July 16, 2008
Latest Amendment Date: August 9, 2009
Award Number: 0832304
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Rathindra DasGupta
EEC
 Division of Engineering Education and Centers
ENG
 Directorate for Engineering
Start Date: August 1, 2008
End Date: July 31, 2010 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $10,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2008 = $10,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • Weili Zhang (Principal Investigator)
    weili.zhang@okstate.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Oklahoma State University
401 WHITEHURST HALL
STILLWATER
OK  US  74078-1031
(405)744-9995
Sponsor Congressional District: 03
Primary Place of Performance: Oklahoma State University
401 WHITEHURST HALL
STILLWATER
OK  US  74078-1031
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
03
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): NNYDFK5FTSX9
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): IUCRC-Indust-Univ Coop Res Ctr
Primary Program Source: 01000809DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, 1049, 122E, OTHR
Program Element Code(s): 576100
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.041

ABSTRACT

Planning Grant for an I/UCRC for THz Application

0832302 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xi-Cheng Zhang
0832304 Oklahoma State University; Weili Zhang

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Oklahoma State University propose a planning grant for a collaborative center to investigate applications of Terahertz radiation. The proposed center "Terahertz Technology and Applications Center" (THz-TAC) will focus on developing new knowledge, tools, hardware, and personnel required for THz wave non-destructive testing and stand-off sensing for industrial and security applications. The center will leverage industry support and enhance the impact of the fundamental research at academic campuses to the application-driven tasks promoted by the industry members. The research to be pursued at the proposed center will address frontier areas of the electromagnetic spectrum from 0.3 to 10 THz in a number of challenging topics. The investigator experience and facilities appear to be well aligned with this project.

THz-TAC will present an excellent platform for interdisciplinary research with broad applicability. There should be significant benefits through academic program development and technology transfer is highly likely, leading to more rapid utilization of terahertz technologies in industry and improved industrial competitiveness. THz-TAC will have an immediate impact on non-destructive analysis, a short term application (3 to 5 years) for homeland security and a longer term interest (5 to 10 years) in biomedicine. The THz-TAC's performance plan clearly addresses the interaction with underrepresented students. RPI has excellent track records on the enrollment of female and minority students. Diversity is well addressed in this planning grant proposal. The non-invasive nature of the technology holds potential for many areas of application in numerous fields.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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4.Jianqiang Gu, Ranjan Singh, Zhen Tian, Wei Cao, Qirong Xing, Mingxia He, Jingwen W. Zhang, Jiaguang Han, Hou-Tong Chen, and Weili Zhang "Terahertz superconductor metamaterial" Applied Physics Letters , v.97 , 2010 , p.071102
6.Zhen Tian, Abul K. Azad, Xinchao Lu, Jianqiang Gu, Jiaguang Han, Qirong Xing, Antoinette J. Taylor, John F. Oâ??Hara, and Weili Zhang "Large dynamic resonance transition between surface plasmon and localized surface plasmon modes" Optics Express , v.18 , 2010 , p.12482
8.Ranjan Singh, Zhen Tian, Jiaguang Han, Carsten Rockstuhl, Jianqiang Gu, and Weili Zhang "Cryogenic temperatures as a path towards high-Q terahertz metamaterials" Applied Physics Letters , v.96 , 2010 , p.071114
Ranjan Singh, Carsten Rockstuhl, Christoph Menzel, Todd P. Meyrath, Mingxia He, Harald Giessen, Falk Lederer, and Weili Zhang "Spiral-type terahertz antennas and the manifestation of the Mushiake principle" Optics Express , v.17 , 2009 , p.9971
Ranjan Singh, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer, and Weili Zhang "Coupling between a dark and a bright eigenmode in a terahertz metamaterial" Physical Review B , v.79 , 2009 , p.085111
Ranjan Singh, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer, and Weili Zhang "The impact of nearest neighbor interaction on the resonances in terahertz metamaterials" Applied Physics Letters , v.94 , 2009 , p.021116
Ranjan Singh, Eric Plum, Weili Zhang, and Nikolay I. Zheludev "Highly tunable optical activity in planar achiral terahertz metamaterials" Optics Express , v.18 , 2010 , p.13425
Ranjan Singh, Ibraheem A. I. Al-Naib, Martin Koch, and Weili Zhang "Asymmetric planar terahertz metamaterials" Optics Express , v.18 , 2010 , p.13044
Xinchao Lu and Weili Zhang "Terahertz localized plasmonic properties of subwavelength ring and coaxial geometries" Applied Physics Letters , v.94 , 2009 , p.181106
Xinchao Lu, Jiaguang Han, and Weili Zhang, "Transmission field enhancement of terahertz pulses in plasmonic, rectangular coaxial geometries" Optics Letters , v.35 , 2010 , p.904
Zhen Tian, Jiaguang Han, Xinchao Lu, Jianqiang Gu, Qirong Xing, and Weili Zhang "Surface plasmon enhanced terahertz spectroscopic distinguishing between isotopes" Chemical Physics Letters , v.475 , 2009 , p.132
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