Terahertz Science in Advanced Materials and Relevant Material Characterizations Leading to New Devices, Systems, and Applications

Dear Colleague,

Terahertz radiation, belonging to the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwave, has been gaining tremendous attention in recent years due to its fascinating properties in probing and manipulating matter. Terahertz science is an interdisciplinary research field that spans materials science, condensed matter physics, chemistry, biology, electronics, and photonics. This field holds great promise for developing new materials, devices, and systems with groundbreaking functionalities and for addressing a wide range of applications, from ultrafast communication and sensing to terahertz imaging and spectroscopy.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive platform for researchers to share their latest advances, original research articles, and review papers on terahertz science in advanced materials and relevant material characterizations leading to new devices, systems, and applications. The scope of this issue covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging on advanced materials, such as conductors, semiconductors, polymers, biomolecules, and composites.
• Development and characterization of terahertz materials for leading new devices, such as antennas, detectors, emitters, modulators, and waveguides.
• Terahertz technology based on integrated metamaterials and artificial materials with period metal structures for wireless communication, including wireless gigabit links, wireless sensor networks, and Internet-of-things applications.
• Terahertz sensing materials with specified sensitivities for security inspection, food-quality detection, environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis, and other applications.
• Terahertz-enabled photonics on the specified bases of solid-state substrates for signal and information processing, data storage, and computation.
• Terahertz sources and techniques for ultrafast and nonlinear optics, high-field physics, and quantum optoelectronics.

We invite researchers to contribute their original and high-quality research papers and reviews to this Special Issue. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field to ensure the highest scientific quality. We welcome theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies that advance the understanding and utilization of terahertz science in the broad areas of materials, devices, systems, and applications.

Dr. Borwen You
Guest Editor

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