On-Chip Terahertz Nanophotonics for Single Molecule Spectroscopy

该项目旨在通过开发模块化、低成本、高效的基于芯片的设备，集中并产生纳米体积的强烈太赫兹场，来解决活体太赫兹光谱学的根本局限性。该项目希望利用几种创新的太赫兹纳米聚焦技术，在太赫兹物理、非线性光学和生物光谱学领域发展新的知识。该项目的预期结果包括提供改进的太赫兹场与光子纳米结构的接口技术，以及进行体内单分子的太赫兹光谱。这应该会在生物化学和药物研究以及电信方面带来显著的好处。

This project aims to address fundamental limitations of in-vivo terahertz spectroscopy by developing modular, low-cost, efficient chip-based devices that concentrate and generate intense terahertz fields in nanometer volumes. This project expects to develop new knowledge in the areas of terahertz physics, nonlinear optics and biospectroscopy using several innovative terahertz nano-focusing techniques. Expected outcomes of this project include providing improved techniques to interface terahertz fields to photonic nanostructures and performing in-vivo terahertz spectroscopy of single molecules. This should provide significant benefits in biochemistry and drug research, as well as telecommunications.