The symposium aims to promote collaboration between Japan and Sweden within THz technology.

Schedule November 18-20

Wednesday: Keynote lectures, Reception (Chalmerska huset)
Thursday: Workshop, Banquet
Friday: Workshop and Lab Tours

Speakers

Keynote lectures

Prof. Jun-ichi Nishizawa, Sophia University
From Maser to Laser
How the Laser happened and was extended to terahertz in my laboratory
Fourth part of my research life

Prof. Erik Kollberg, Chalmers
GHz to THz receivers: 50 years of development

Invited speakers

Masanori Hangyo, Osaka University
Materials in the Terahertz Region

Toshitaka Idehara, University of Fukui
High power THz technologies using gyrotrons as high power THz radiation sources

Keita Ohtani, Tohoku University
Development of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers at Tohoku University

Kiyomi Sakai, National institute of Information and Communication Technology
Plasmonic devices in the terahertz-waves region

Nobuhiko Sarukura, Osaka University
Terahertz waveguides and proposed optical parametric devices

Tetsuo Sasaki, Sophia University
High resolution terahertz spectroscopy for defect detection

Tadao Tanabe, Tohoku University
GaP Terahertz signal generator and its applications for spectral monitoring of dynamic reaction

Keisuke Tominaga, Kobe University
Low-Frequency Dynamics in Condensed Phases Studied by Terahertz Radiation Spectroscopy

Yoshizumi Yasuoka, National Defense Academy in Japan
Uncooled antenna coupled terahertz radiation detectors

Victor Belitsky, Chalmers
Terahertz instrumentation for radio astronomy

Tomas Bryllert, Caltech/JPL A 670
GHz imaging radar for concealed objects detection

Leonid Kuzmin, Chalmers
Ultra-sensitive cold-electron bolometers for THz receivers

Gunnar Malm, Royal Institute of Technology KTH
Understanding the noise floor in uncooled silicon-germanium bolometers

Sergey Cherednichenko, Chalmers, Omnisys Instruments AB
Optical design and verification of the 183 GHz Water Vapor Radiometer for ALMA

Jan Stake, Chalmers Integrated
Schottky receivers and graphene for future THz electronics

Jan Svedin, Swedish Defence Research Agency
A 210 GHz 3D imaging radar system based on an antenna-integrated MMIC receiver front-end and an ultracompact HBV transmitter source module

Stanley Wissmar, ACREO
Group IV materials for THz sensing

Josip Vukusic, Chalmers
High power compact multiplier sources and imaging applications

Herbert Zirath, Chalmers
Highly integrated receivers for millimetre wave applications based on mHEMT technology

Organising committee

Prof. Jun-ichi Nishizawa, Chair  Sophia University
Prof. Mikael Östling, Royal Institute of Technology
Prof. Stefan Bengtsson, Chalmers University of Technology
Prof. Masanori Hangyo, Osaka University

Local organising committe

Jan Stake
Eva Hellberg
Aik-Yean Tang
Aleksandra Malko
Biddut Banik
Herbert Zirath
Sergey Cherednichenko