Terahertz_2011

RSC East Anglia Region and RSC Molecular Spectroscopy Group joint meeting on:

Recent Developments in Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging

The RSC EAR and RSC MSG held a joint meeting on THz spectroscopy on 27 October 2011 at the Royal Society of Chemistry venue of Thomas Graham House, Cambridge. This was a follow up meeting to a very successful THz spectroscopy meeting held almost two years previously, again in Cambridge (see: http://sites.google.com/site/rscmolecularspectroscopygroup/home/meeting-reports/thz-meeting).

As with the first meeting, the programme was put together by Dr. Axel Zeitler (University of Cambridge), who also chaired the meeting.

The meeting, including speakers, attracted 33 delegates, including one from Sweden and one from Australia, although the latter was already in the UK! As with the first such THz spectroscopy meeting (held in October 2009), this meeting was considered again to be both a technical and networking success, by bringing together many current practitioners in the technique from a diverse range of application, development and study areas.

Post-meeting feedback was again very positive, and the possibilities of a 3^rd meeting in about two year’s time are under consideration.

A brief for THz spectroscopy was given with the report from the previous meeting; see website address given above.

The technical presentations at the 2^nd meeting are listed below:

Technical talks:

1. Industrial applications of terahertz technology

Alessia Portieri (Teraview Ltd., Cambridge)

2. Hydrogen bonding dynamics in binary mixtures

Ruoyu Li (Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

3. The value of terahertz spectroscopy to protein chemistry

Robert Falconer (Chemical & Biological Engineering, Leeds University)

4. THz plasmonics

Andrew Gallant (School of Engineering & Computer Sciences, Durham University)

5. Modelling of terahertz spectra/biomolecules

Andrew Burnett (Institute of Microwaves & Photonics, Leeds University)

6. How best to extract the optical constants from the time domain signal in THz-TDS

Aarun Chung (Quantum Light & Matter Group, Southampton University)

7. A comparison between terahertz pulsed imaging and optical coherence tomography

Yaochun Shen (Electrical Engineering & Electronics, University of Liverpool)

8. Terahertz spectroscopy of concentrated sorbitol solutions and glasses

Juraj Sibik (Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

John Chalmers, RSC MSG. February 2011.