How to Use terahertz in a Sentence

terahertz

noun
  • But this past year has seen progress in closing the terahertz gap.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But terahertz waves stretch hundreds of microns long.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The mirror shields samples from the laser that triggers terahertz emission.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Even so, Singh cautions that terahertz will not form the backbone of 6G networks.
    — Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2025
  • As a result, conventional terahertz beams wash over tiny samples.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The clever bit—and what has prevented anyone from building a terahertz lidar before now—is what happens when the light bounces back to the sensor.
    — Mark Harris, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
  • Many studies have looked at various aspects of operating in the terahertz regime.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
  • As for the waveguide, it’s made of a dielectric at the center, which channels the terahertz signal, surrounded by cladding.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Northeastern said its Teranova project is the first that will be able to test terahertz transmissions.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • When struck by a laser, electrons inside the layers generate sharp pulses of terahertz radiation.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • When a pulse comprising a wide range of terahertz frequencies is directed between the plates, each frequency leaks out of the slit at a different angle.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Looking ahead, Singh sees sensing as an important new opportunity for terahertz tech.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Scientists may have solved a fundamental problem that would have put a snag in efforts to build wireless terahertz links for networks beyond 5G, a new study finds.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Next, the team plans to integrate antenna, sources, detectors, and signal processing on a single chip for complete terahertz systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Depending on the arrangement of these big and little triangular holes, terahertz radiation either flowed within the chip or leaked out.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Many fundamental excitations occur in the terahertz range.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • AttoTude is planning essentially the same thing, but at terahertz frequencies and with a different kind of svelte, flexible cable.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
  • This capability comes from the broadband nature of Rydberg atoms, which can operate from direct current to terahertz frequencies.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 June 2026
  • While the promise of terahertz data links looms on the horizon, the world today also can’t wait for technologies that might, in 2030 or beyond, be able to fulfill their early promise.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Until now, no instrument could directly visualize it at terahertz frequencies.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Their terahertz microscope compresses long terahertz waves into a microscopic spot.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • German researchers developed chip-ready tech to convert low-frequency signals into terahertz frequencies, suitable for high-frequency data links.
    — Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But compact terahertz lasers have only worked at ultralow temperatures, limiting them mostly to laboratory settings.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Sixth-generation wireless networks, or 6G, are expected to achieve terabit-per-second speeds using terahertz frequencies.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • In experiments, the researchers created terahertz switches on a platform of indium aluminum nitride and gallium nitride.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2023
  • To observe terahertz waves from astronomical sources first requires getting up above the atmosphere or at least up to altitudes where Earth’s atmosphere hasn’t completely quenched the signal.
    — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • To achieve high-resolution terahertz imaging without superlensing, Tuniz and Kuhlmey would have to place an expensive probe less than a millimeter away from the sample being observed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In future iterations, the team hopes to expand its sensing capabilities to incorporate WiFi, mmWaves, or terahertz waves.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2023

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