Molecules could soon be “scanned” in a fashion similar to imaging
screenings at airports, thanks to a detector developed by University of
Pittsburgh physicists.
The detector, featured in a recent issue of Nano Letters,
may have the ability to chemically identify single molecules using
terahertz radiation—a range of light far below what the eye can detect.
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| An artist’s rendering of molecules being “screened” by a nanoscale terahertz spectrometer. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Pittsburgh |
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