{"id":227183,"date":"2025-12-16T01:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/3d-printed-helixes-show-promise-as-thz-optical-materials"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:39:28","slug":"3d-printed-helixes-show-promise-as-thz-optical-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/3d-printed-helixes-show-promise-as-thz-optical-materials","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed helixes show promise as THz optical materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-helixes-show-promise-as-thz-optical-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have optimized and 3D-printed helix structures as optical materials for terahertz (THz) frequencies, a potential way to address a technology gap for next-generation telecommunications, non-destructive evaluation, chemical\/biological sensing and more.<\/p>\n<p>The printed microscale helices reliably create circularly polarized beams in the THz range and, when arranged in patterned arrays, can function as a new type of Quick Response (QR) for advanced encryption\/decryption. Their results, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/advs.202507931\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Advanced Science<\/i><\/a>, represent the first full parametric analysis of helical structures for THz frequencies and show the potential of 3D printing for fabricating THz devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have optimized and 3D-printed helix structures as optical materials for terahertz (THz) frequencies, a potential way to address a technology gap for next-generation telecommunications, non-destructive evaluation, chemical\/biological sensing and more. The printed microscale helices reliably create circularly polarized beams in the THz range and, when arranged in patterned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,3,19,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}