CENTERA

The Centre is implementing a project entitled: „Center for Tera hertz Research and Applications (CENTERA)”. It was created to develop breakthrough technologies that use terahertz radiation (THz), such as rapid scanners and chemical composition analy sers, which can be applied in various sectors of the economy and safety oversight. Practical application of THz radiation has not been previously possible because of the high costs and large size and energy consumption of existing THz trans miters and detectors. In order to introduce THz technology to the general market, CENTERA is conducting interdisciplinary research on possible ways of generating, emitting, processing, and receiving THz waves by systems based on well-known and cheap technologies for semiconductor equipment (transistors, integrated circuits).

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Project Creators

Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Knap

Prof. Wojciech Knap, PhD Hab. – graduated from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. For many years he has been associated with the University of Montpellier and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France. As part of the LIA-TERAMIR International Lab he has coordinated the activities of Terahertz Radiation Lab (TeraGaN) at the Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 articles in the international scientific journals, and author of several patents. Prof. Knap’s scientific pursuits cover numerous fields, including the absorption and emission of terahertz light by free and trapped carriers in shallow dopant states, heterostructures involving GaN/AlGaN nitrides, plasma excitation in nanotransistors, and terahertz radiation of plasmonic structures.

Prof. dr hab. inż. Thomas Skotnicki

Prof. Thomas Skotnicki, PhD Hab. Eng – he graduated from the Faculty of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, and teaches there. He obtained his PhD degree at the Institute of Electron Technology in Warsaw and postdoctoral degree at INPG (Grenoble). He is a world-class specialist in semiconduc tor devices and advanced microelectronic technologies. He has long-standing experience both as a scientist and as an entrepreneur. He has worked in the famous CNET research labs in France, and was the lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne (Switzerland), Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), and SUPELEC in Rennes (France). He spent 19 years at Europe’s leading electronics manufacturing company, STMicroelectronics, where he was Vice-President and Director for the Advanced Devices and Technologies Programme. He developed UTBB FDSOI, a leading CMOS technology at STMicroelectronics, implemented in Globalfo undries Dresden and in SAMSUNG. Author and co-author of 350 scientific articles, holder of over 85 patents. He is an IEEE Fellow and an STMicroelectronics Company Fellow.