Active Terahertz Metamaterial for Biomedical Applications (eBook)

Balamati Choudhury, Rakesh Mohan Jha, Arya Menon (Autoren)

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2015 | 1st ed. 2016
XXI, 49 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-287-793-2 (ISBN)

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This book describes a metamaterial-based active absorber for potential biomedical engineering applications. Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is an important tool for imaging in the field of biomedical engineering, due to the non-invasive, non-ionizing nature of terahertz radiation coupled with its propagation characteristics in water, which allows the operator to obtain high-contrast images of skin cancers, burns, etc. without detrimental effects. In order to tap this huge potential, it is important to build highly efficient biomedical imaging systems by introducing terahertz absorbers into biomedical detectors. The biggest challenge faced in the fulfilment of this objective is the lack of naturally occurring dielectrics, which is overcome with the use of artificially engineered resonant materials, viz. metamaterials. This book describes such a metamaterial-based active absorber. The design has been optimized using particle swarm optimization (PSO), eventually resulting in an ultra-thin active terahertz absorber. The absorber shows near unity absorption for a tuning range of terahertz (THz) application.

Dr. Balamati Choudhury is currently working as a Scientist at Centre for Electromagnetics of CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India since April 2008. She obtained her M.Tech. (ECE) degree in 2006 and Ph.D. (Engg.) degree in Microwave Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela, Orissa, India in 2013. During the period of 2006-2008, she was a Senior Lecturer in Department of Electronics and Communication at NIST, Orissa India. Her active areas of research interests are in the domain of soft computing techniques in electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics for aerospace applications and metamaterial design applications. She was also the recipient of the CSIR-NAL Young Scientist Award for the year 2013-2014 for her contribution in the area of Computational Electromagnetics for Aerospace Applications. She has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific research papers and technical reports including a book and three book chapters. Dr. Balamati is also an Assistant Professor of AcSIR, New Delhi.

Ms. Arya Menon has obtained her Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University. During the course of her studies, she interned at the Centre for Electromag

netics, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), and worked on soft computing for electromagnetics, conformal antennas, and metamaterials.

Dr. Rakesh Mohan Jha was Chief Scientist & Head, Centre for Electromagnetics, CSIR-National Aero space Laboratories, Bangalore. Dr. Jha obtained a dual degree in BE (Hons.) EEE and MSc (Hons.) Physics from BITS, Pilani (Raj.) India, in 1982. He obtained his Ph.D. (Engg.) degree from Department of Aerospace Engineering of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1989, in the area of computational electromagnetics for aerospace applications. Dr. Jha was a SERC (UK) Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science in 1991. He worked as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for High-Frequency Techniques and Electronics of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (1992-1993, 1997). He was awarded the Sir C.V. Raman Award for Aerospace Engineering for the Year 1999. Dr. Jha was elected Fellow of INAE in 2010, for his contributions to the EM Applications to Aerospace Engineering. He was also the Fellow of IETE and Distinguished Fellow of ICCES. Dr. Jha has authored or co-authored several books, and more than five hundred scientific research papers and technical reports. He passed away during the production of this book of a car

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Inhalt

Preface 8
Acknowledgments 10
Contents 11
About the Authors 12
Abbreviations 14
List of Figures 15
List of Tables 17
1 Active Terahertz Metamaterial for Biomedical Applications 18
Abstract 18
1 Introduction 18
1.1 Terahertz Radiation 19
1.2 Motivation 20
2 Background Theory 21
2.1 Terahertz Spectroscopy for Biomedical Applications 22
2.2 Metamaterials 23
2.3 Tuning Mechanisms for Active Metamaterial Based Applications 28
2.4 Metamaterial Absorbers 30
2.5 Particle Swarm Optimization for Improvement of Design 31
3 Methodology 35
3.1 Metamaterial Design Procedure 35
3.2 Design of Terahertz Metamaterials Using Scaling 38
3.3 Absorber Design 41
3.4 Development of PSO-Based Computational Engine 44
4 Design and Result Analysis 45
4.1 Selection of Metamaterial Structure 45
4.2 Design of Circular Split Ring Resonator 46
4.3 Design of Absorber Using SRR 47
4.4 Design of Active Absorber Array 50
4.4.1 Selection of Tuning Mechanism 50
4.4.2 Implementation of Tuning Mechanism 52
5 Conclusion 54
References 55
About the Book 59
Author Index 60
Subject Index 63

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.9.2015
• Reihe/Serie: SpringerBriefs in Computational Electromagnetics
• Reihe/Serie: SpringerBriefs in Computational Electromagnetics
• Reihe/Serie: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Reihe/Serie: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 49 p. 29 illus., 20 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Singapore
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Absorber for biomedical imaging • Active Terahertz • Metamaterial • Particle swarm optimization • Time domain spectroscopy
• ISBN-10: 981-287-793-2 / 9812877932
• ISBN-13: 978-981-287-793-2 / 9789812877932