{"id":235674,"date":"2026-04-21T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/tiny-light-concentrating-particles-boost-terahertz-technology-study-shows"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:20:09","slug":"tiny-light-concentrating-particles-boost-terahertz-technology-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/tiny-light-concentrating-particles-boost-terahertz-technology-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Tiny \u2018light-concentrating\u2019 particles boost terahertz technology, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-light-concentrating-particles-boost-terahertz-technology-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found a way to boost terahertz technology using particles thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand. Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-026-42758-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i> by Loughborough University\u2019s Emergent Photonics Research Center shows how a sparse layer of nanoparticles can make materials that produce terahertz radiation more efficient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-02-physicist-advancing-skin-cancer-screening.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">Terahertz radiation<\/a> sits between microwaves and infrared on the electromagnetic spectrum and has a range of potential uses. It can \u201csee\u201d through materials like clothing or plastic and detect chemical fingerprints, with applications in security screening, medical imaging, materials testing, and wireless communications.<\/p>\n<p>But existing devices are limited by how efficiently they can generate terahertz waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found a way to boost terahertz technology using particles thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand. Research published in Scientific Reports by Loughborough University\u2019s Emergent Photonics Research Center shows how a sparse layer of nanoparticles can make materials that produce terahertz radiation more efficient. Terahertz radiation sits between microwaves and infrared [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235674","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=235674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}