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Terahertz Tech Sets Stage for "Wireless Wired" Chips

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Actual applications at the moment are mostly imaging, the 'nudie scanners' at airports and THz imaging at various frequencies is in use for food inspection as it can easily show blemishes/defects in produce that would otherwise be invisible. I read a paper once on detecting counterfeit money. Analysis of airborne contaminants / weather prediction are other possible applications. For telecom it has been considered (at…

A terrahertz rectifier would be a boon for solar energy.

I’m curious, how so?

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A terrahertz rectifier would be a boon for solar energy.

I’m curious, how so?

With terrahertz rectifiers you can use antennas and diodes to convert light to DC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rectenna

Re: Terahertz Tech Sets Stage for "Wireless Wired" Chips

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I’m curious, how so?

With terrahertz rectifiers you can use antennas and diodes to convert light to DC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rectenna

Ooooh yeah! They’d have to work right at the antenna, but maybe some kind of metamaterial process could make more efficient solar panels that way? Hard To imaging that they would be cheap Though.
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