Research Projects

The Terahertz spectrum, located at the intersection of electronics and photonics, offers promising prospects for futuristic science and technologies. However, there is a bottleneck in terahertz technologies due to the lack of natural materials for generating, detecting, and controlling terahertz waves. This creates an undesirable 'terahertz-gap' between electronics and photonics technologies. Recent breakthroughs in interdisciplinary terahertz research have shown promise in bridging this gap. The terahertz spectrum, consisting of sub-millimeter waves, can be combined with micro-nanophotonic structures to create a new regime of 'deep-sub-wavelength photonics'. Developing a platform to drive, probe, and control the macroscopic properties of terahertz waves at the nanoscales will provide new opportunities in Terahertz Nanotechnology for futuristic applications in 6G communications, information processing, high-resolution bio-imaging, sensing, and metrology. The project aims to develop a new class of 'tera-nano' metamaterial that can confine submillimeter THz waves into the nano-gap region for enhanced light-matter interactions and ultrasensitive sensing capabilities. The focus is on developing novel and sustainable terahertz solutions for applications in ultrasensitive sensors, high-resolution imaging, wave engineering, and communication technologies in the emerging 6G THz band.