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An Ultra Low Noise CMOS THz Imager

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The demand for terahertz (THz) detectors with the capability of delivering real-time imaging increases for an ever broader range of applications such as security (Liu et al. in Proc IEEE 95:1514–1527, 2007, [1]), non destructive testing (Yakovlev et al. in IEEE Trans Terahertz Sci Technol 5:810–816, 2015, [2]), medical imaging (Taylor et al. in IEEE Trans Terahertz Sci Technol 1:201–219, 2011, [3]), pharmaceutical applications (Kim et al. in J Lightwave Technol 32:3768–3773, 2014, [4]), soil inspection (Dworak et al. in Sensors 11:9973, 2011, [5]) and food inspection (Han et al. in Development of sub-thz gyrotron for real-time food inspection,pp. 1–2, 2011, [6]).

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Boukhayma, A. (2018). An Ultra Low Noise CMOS THz Imager. In: Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors . Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68774-2_10

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