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Search Publications by: Erich N. Grossman (Fed)

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Carbon nanotube arrays for absolute IR and THz radiometry

October 2, 2011
Author(s)
John H. Lehman, Kerry N. Betz, Erich N. Grossman
We have assembled and evaluated a novel electrically calibrated thermopile having an array of 1.5 mm long multiwalled carbon nanotubes as the radiation absorber. We find very low reflectance at the 390 υm laser wavelength and excellent agreement between

Terahertz metrology and instrumentation

August 29, 2011
Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Zoya Popovic
This paper gives an overview of measurement techniques used in the THz region of the electromagnetic spectrum, from about 100 GHz to several THz. Currently available components necessary for THz metrology, such as sources, detectors and passives, are

A general approach to low noise readout of terahertz imaging arrays

June 16, 2011
Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Jonathan D. Chisum, Zoya Popovic
This article describes the theory and design of an ultra-low noise electronic readout circuit for use with room temperature video-rate terahertz imaging arrays. First, the noise characteristics of various imaging detectors, including low resistance

Passive terahertz camera for standoff security screening

July 1, 2010
Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Charles Dietlein
We describe the construction and performance of a passive, real-time terahertz camera based on a modular, 64-element linear array of cryogenic hotspot microbolometers. A reflective conical scanner sweeps out a 2 m ×4 m(vertical × horizontal) field of view

Amorphous Nb-Si Barrier Junctions for Voltage Standard and Digital Applications

June 3, 2009
Author(s)
David I. Olaya, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz, Jon E. Bjarnason, Erich N. Grossman
Amorphous Nb-Si has been previously demonstrated as a Josephson junction barrier material for Nb-based superconducting voltage standard circuits, including both dc programmable and ac Josephson voltage standards operating at frequencies up to 20 GHz. This

Detection and segmentation of concealed objects in terahertz images

December 1, 2008
Author(s)
Xilin Shen, Charles Dietlein, Erich N. Grossman, Zoya Popovic, Francois Meyer
Terahertz imaging has been shown to successfully detect objects concealed underneath clothing, by measuring the radiometric temperatures of different objects on a human subject. The goal of this work is to automatically detect and segment concealed objects

Aqueous blackbody calibration source for millimeter-wave/terahertz metrology

October 20, 2008
Author(s)
Charles Dietlein, Zoya Popovic, Erich N. Grossman
This paper describes a calibrated broadband emitter for the millimeter-wave through terahertz frequency regime, called the aqueous blackbody calibration source. Due to its extremely high absorption, liquid water is chosen as the emitter on the basis of

Imaging with modular linear arrays of cryogenic Nb microbolometers

March 17, 2008
Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Charles Dietlein, Jon E. Bjarnason, Mabel Ramirez, M. Leivo, J. A. Penttila, P. Helisto, A. Luukanen
We present ultrawideband imagery obtained with modular, 8-element, superconducting Nb microbolometer arrays. Conically scanned images are presented and compared with raster-scanned images obtained on the same arrays and from similar NbN arrays at VTT

A W-band polarization converter and isolator

June 6, 2007
Author(s)
Charles Dietlein, A. Luukanen, Zoya Popovic, Erich N. Grossman
This paper presents a 95-GHz printed low-loss linear-to-circular polarizer designed as a component of an active direct-detection millimeter-wave imaging system. The periodic printed structure presents different reactances to the TE and TM polarizations