Instrumentation, Detection & Analysis

News Releases / In the Press

• Bakhtiari Named "Best Reviewer" by IEEE - EESA News & Highlights (Mar. 2014)
• Argonne team helps map Fukushima radiation release — Argonne Press Release (Oct. 10, 2011)
• 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)
• 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)
• "Argonne, NASA team up on shuttle safety"
  Argonne News Release (Aug. 29, 2003)
• Tiny device can detect hidden nuclear weapons, materials
  Argonne News Release (Jun. 21, 2002)

Featured Documents

Fact Sheets:

• 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 - Select publications by the MMW Group

Multimedia

Visit the Instrumentation, Detection & Analysis Multimedia Gallery.
Items recently added to the gallery:
“Millimeter-Wave Remote Biometric Identification and Tracking (RBIT) System for Security Applications”

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

• Superabsorbing gel for actinide, lanthanide, and fission product decontamination, M. Kaminski, C. Mertz, U.S. Patent 9,359,582 (Jun. 2016)
• Interferometric millimeter wave and THz wave doppler radar, S. Liao, N. Gopalsami, S. Bakhtiari, A. Raptis, T. Elmer, U.S. Patent 9,103,904 (Aug. 2015)
• Radar detection of radiation-induced ionization in air, N. Gopalsami, A. Heifetz, H.T. Chien, S. Liao, E. Koehl, A. Raptis, U.S. Patent 9,086,487 (Jul. 2015)
• Compressive passive millimeter wave imager, N. Gopalsami, S. Liao, T.W. Elmer, E.R. Koehl, A. Heifetz, A.C. Raptis, U.S. Patent  8,941,061 (Jan. 2015)
• Millimeter wave sensor for far-field standoff vibrometry, S. Bakhtiari, N. Gopalsami, T.W. Elmer, A.C. Raptis, U.S. Patent  8,686,362 (Apr. 2014)