TéraHertz Occitanie

THz platform

The THz platform was created as part of the "TeraPole" technology platform subsidized by the Languedoc-Roussillon region (2006-2009).

From its inception to the present day, the THz Platform has continued to develop and acquire the equipment needed for research projects, and to benefit from their funding. In part, acquisition has been subsidized by the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, for example, through the GEPETOS project.

The platform is also open to internal and external users. External users are generally researchers from member laboratories of national or international THz Research Groups, of which the THz team is also a member. Often, external users and the THz team share projects that are carried out on the THz Platform and/or on partner experimental sites.

In recent years, the THz Platform has been used for the following national projects (ANR projects, regional projects, industrial contracts) and international programs (European and International Projects):

  • 2020-2023 FLAG-ERA international DeMeGRaS project "Detection mechanisms in graphene radiation sensors
  • 2019-2022 ANR project COLECTOR "Collective excitations in topological matter".
  • 2019- IRP TeraMIR "Laboratory of Terahertz and Mid-Infrared Collective Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanostructures".
  • 2014-2019 LIA TeraMIR "Laboratory of Terahertz and Mid-Infrared Collective Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanostructures".
  • 2017-2020 Biosensors for Terahertz Spectroscopy of Proteins
  • 2018-2020 ANR DIRAC3D "Low-energy excitations in 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals".
  • 2016-2018 European Project EraNet Rus Plus "TeraSense " Construction of "all solid state" gas spectrometer for medical diagnostics of exhaled breath.
  • 2015-2017 Contract with DGA "IMagerie Pénétrante dans les conditions Atmosphériques Degradées" (Penetrating Imaging in Degraded Atmospheric Conditions)
  • 2014-2017 ANR NADIA project "Integrated NAno-Detectors for terahertz Applications".

Recently, thanks to the Platform, collaboration has been established with CIRAD and the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil (LMGC), University of Montpellier, which has given rise to cross-disciplinary projects:

  • "Sorghum characterization by THz image technique": CIRAD - L2C collaboration;
  • "Terahertz Observation of Moisture Convection-Diffusion in Wood": collaboration Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil (LMGC) - L2C
  • Terahertz radiation for detecting wood diseases