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.
An artist’s rendering of molecules being “screened” by a nanoscale terahertz spectrometer. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Pittsburgh |
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