Advanced Materials for Future Terahertz Devices, Circuits and Systems

This book highlights the properties of advanced materials suitable for realizing THz devices, circuits and systems, and processing and fabrication technologies associated with those. It also discusses some measurement techniques exclusively effective for THz regime, newly explored materials and recently developed solid-state devices for efficient generation and detection of THz waves, potentiality of metamaterials for implementing THz passive circuits and bio-sensors, and finally the future of silicon as the base material of THz devices. The book especially focuses on the recent advancements and several research issues related to THz materials and devices; it also discusses theoretical, experimental, established, and validated empirical works on these topics.

Dr. Aritra Acharyya is currently working at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Cooch Behar Government Engineering College, Harinchawra, Ghughumari, West Bengal, 736170, India, as Assistant Professor. He was born in 1986. He received B.E. and M.Tech. degrees from IIEST, Shibpur, India, and Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India, in the years 2007 and 2010, respectively. Finally, he obtained Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, in the year 2016. His research interests are high-frequency semiconductor devices, nano-structures, semiconductor physics, transport phenomena, quantum mechanics, optoelectronics, etc. He has published 81 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals, 60 research papers in national and international conference proceedings, and several book chapters. He also authored and edited 06 and 02 numbers of books, respectively. 

Dr. Palash Das is currently working at Cooch Behar Government Engineering College as Assistant Professor. He did his M.S. and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur and B.Tech. from Kalyani Government Engineering College, West Bengal, India. His current research interest involves GaN optical devices, GaN HEMT, HRXRD of GaN/AlGaN thin film, ideation of new device structures, simulation and modeling, simulation tool development using Visual Basic 6, automated measurement instrument development with embedded hardware, and Visual Basic-based software. He is currently guiding one Ph.D. scholar working on GaN optical devices for Intra Device Communication Applications. He has guided around 15 B.Tech. projects as well. Palash is owning 1 US patent and 3 Indian patents; he authored 11 journal papers,19 conference papers, and 02 book chapters. He developed a few software to simulate/demonstrate/measure certain semiconductor physical characteristics. He recently developed one measurement instrument product for automated I-V characterization of electronic devices.