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Intern: Xerxes Lopez-Yglesias Mentors: Tom King, Matt Doty Faculty Supervisor: Profesor Mark Sherwin Department: Physics

ANTENNAE CREATION FOR TERAHERTZ RADIATION SENSORS

The aim of our project was to test the sensitivity of a terahertz radiation detector using the UCSB free electron laser as a radiation source. Unfortunately, many problems arose in the process of preparing the detector for use. The largest problem was creating antennas with a sharp enough tip to contact the detector. For the length of our internship, we focused on ways to chemically etch a sharp point on the tip of a gold wire to be used as our antennae.

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