
THz Science and Technology Seminar (TSTS) Series: Mobile Material Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing (MARIE)
May 5 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
More than 100 years ago, scientists invented a mobile image receiver to take pictures anywhere. More than 30 years ago, engineers invented a Mobile Communication Transceiver to make phone calls anywhere. 8 years ago, at the MARIE Collaborative Research Center, we began researching a Mobile Material Transceiver to map surface and subsurface materials anywhere. Now, in the final phase ending in 2028, we want to realize the vision of Mapping Materials for Dynamic Environments. All of the necessary breakthrough inventions are based on major technological advances that will allow us to move successively from electronic, photonic, and micromechanical components through integrated circuits to compact mobile devices. Following these steps, we aim to greatly extend the benefits of today’s static and bulky materials characterization systems to mobile materials transceivers. This will lead to significant innovations in a wide range of societal applications: mobile detection of the source of a fire or of unconscious people in a burning building, rapid detection of cables and artifacts inside a wall, or, in general, autonomous creation of material maps, e.g. for localization and classification of objects in arbitrary indoor and outdoor environments. The talk will present the structure of MARIE, the main results and the goal for the last four years until its end in 2028. Co-sponsored by: Stracom Speaker(s): , Thomas Kaiser Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/481946