Priority Programme “INtegrated TERahErtz sySTems Enabling Novel Functionality (INTEREST)” (SPP 2314)
Deadline: 12. April 2024
In May 2020, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) established the Priority Programme “INtegrated TERahErtz sySTems Enabling Novel Functionality (INTEREST)” (SPP 2314). The programme is designed to run for six years. The present call invites proposals for the second three-year funding period. Until recently, terahertz science and technology was driven by rather isolated scientific communities. Terahertz scientists followed an either photonic, electronic or physical sciences approach to foster mostly disciplinary knowledge. This traditional approach led to bottlenecks and thus to a resistance to expansion (modernisation, renewal, integration) because the terahertz range has quite a few peculiarities that need to be considered. The Priority Programme INTEREST (SPP 2314) aims at the vision to establish a well-defined terahertz community by following a holistic “integration” approach in a dedicated coordinated initiative. The theme “Integrated Terahertz Systems” will enable as yet unknown functionalities and applications in the field of terahertz science and applications. It fosters interdisciplinary science by leveraging the best of historically isolated scientific disciplines.
The following list includes the research areas of the Priority Programme along with some examples:
Area 1: novel physical phenomena, technologies, and devices enabling integrated terahertz systems
- Heterointegration of III-V with BiCMOS
- Integration of novel materials or material systems (graphene, spintronics, etc.)
- Novel scalable integrated THz arrays
Area 2: novel multi-functional integrated systems
- Novel THz system partitions & integrated radio transceivers
- Integrated broadband laser-induced THz generation in silicon technologies
- Complete electronic & photonic integration of THz measurement systems on a chip level
Area 3: novel terahertz science and applications based on integrated terahertz systems
- Integrated THz systems for biomedical applications
- Integrated THz systems for space applications
- Integrated THz systems for communications
