Detection & Diagnostic Systems

News Releases / In the Press

• NE Scientists Chien, Sheen, Raptis and Wang win R&D 100 Award
  NE Highlight (Aug. 26, 2011)
• Sasan Bakhtiari (NDE Section) to take part in annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium
  NE Highlight (Sep. 8, 2008)
• CNN reports on Passive millimeter-wave spectroscopy (PmmWS)
  CNN's "Situation Room" recently focused on Argonne technologies with anti-terrorism applications. Passive millimeter-wave spectroscopy is one of the technologies featured in the report.
  The video clip is available on the CNN website.
• New T-ray source could improve airport security, cancer detection
  Argonne News Release (Nov. 23, 2007)
• BioTime Announces Joint Hypothermic Medicine Study With Argonne National Laboratory
  BioTime Press Releases (Nov. 2, 2007)
• New system could provide safer, cheaper, more detailed mammograms
  Argonne News Release (Oct. 26, 2007)
• Gopalsami interviewed on security technology
  See Multimedia Gallery
• New instrument covertly detects signals from illicit chemicals
  Argonne News Release (Aug. 31, 2007)
• NE researchers win two R&D 100 Awards
  NE Highlights (Aug.21, 2007)
• New sensor technology detects chemical, biological, nuclear and explosive materials
  Argonne News Release (Mar. 21, 2006)
• Inspection technologies protect and enhance materials for power plants
  Argonne News Release (Aug. 5, 2005)
• NASA honors Argonne's Ellingson
  Argonne News Release (Feb. 8, 2005)
• "Researchers Honored in 2004: Saving lives instead of cooling buildings"
  Argonne News Release (Aug. 23, 2004)
• "Argonne, NASA team up on shuttle safety"
  Argonne News Release (Aug. 29, 2003)
• "Ice smoothie gives heart attacks the 'big Chill', may save lives"
  Argonne logos, Spring 2003
• Tiny device can detect hidden nuclear weapons, materials
  Argonne News Release (Jun. 21, 2002)

Featured Documents

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• Argonne innovations in nondestructive evaluation technologies aid many industries - Fact Sheet -- [756KB];
• Millimeter-Wave Radar Detection of Chemicals, Gases, and Radiation - Fact Sheet -- [234KB]; also available at Argonne Technology Transfer Office
• Gallium Arsenide Semiconductor-based  Neutron Detector - Fact Sheet
  [174KB]; also available at Argonne Technology Transfer Office
• Terahertz- and Millimeter-Wave Test Facility —  Detect Terrorist-Related Contraband with Terahertz Technology - Fact Sheet -- [176KB]; also available at Argonne Technology Transfer Office
• Joining Advanced Materials By Plastic Flow Provides Solution For Oxygen Sensor Applications - Fact Sheet -- [191KB]; also available at Argonne Technology Transfer Office

Millimeter Wave Group’s Publications

Millimeter Wave Group’s Publications - The most recent publications by the MMW Group led by Argonne Expert Sami Gopalsami

Other featured publications

Emission of Coherent THz Radiation from Superconductors by L. Ozyuzer, A. E. Koshelev, C. Kurter, N. Gopalsami, Q. Li, M. Tachiki, K. Kadowaki, T. Yamamoto, H. Minami, H. Yamaguchi, T. Tachiki, K. E. Gray, W.-K. Kwok, U. Welp
Compact solid-state sources of terahertz (THz) radiation are being sought for sensing, imaging, and spectroscopy applications across the physical and biological sciences. We demonstrate that coherent continuous-wave THz radiation of sizable power can be extracted from intrinsic Josephson junctions in the layered high-temperature superconductor Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈. In analogy to a laser cavity, the excitation of an electromagnetic cavity resonance inside the sample generates a macroscopic coherent state in which a large number of junctions are synchronized to oscillate in phase. The emission power is found to increase as the square of the number of junctions reaching values of 0.5 microwatt at frequencies up to 0.85 THz, and persists up to ~50 kelvin. These results should stimulate the development of superconducting compact sources of THz radiation... ~~ Excerpt from Science Magazine, Vol. 318, 23 Nov. 2007
Download paper [  PDF (387KB)];  or read the HTML version on Science Magazine website 

Multimedia

Visit the Detection & Diagnostic Systems Multimedia Gallery.
Items recently added to the gallery:
“Millimeter-Wave Remote Biometric Identification and Tracking (RBIT) System for Security Applications” and “Compressive Passive Millimeter-Wave Imager”

Awards

• 2011 R&D 100 Awards: Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (PAS) System for Remote Detection of Explosives and Chemicals (Safety and Security)
  NE Scientists Chien, Sheen, Raptis and Wang win R&D 100 Award - NE Highlight
• 2007 R&D 100 Awards: Passive millimeter-wave spectroscopy (PmmWS)
• 2007 R&D 100 Awards: Ultra-High-Resolution Mammography System (UHRMS)

Recent Patents

• Surface acoustic wave probe implant for predicting epileptic seizures, N. Gopalsami, S. Kulikov, I. Osorio, A.C. Raptis, U.S. Patent  8,165,682 (Apr. 2012)
• High-temperature potentiometric oxygen sensor with internal reference, J.L. Routbort, D. Singh, P.K. Dutta, R. Ramasamy, J.V. Spirig, S. Akbar, U.S. Patent  8,057,652 (Nov. 2011)