terahertz
noun
tera·hertz ˈter-ə-ˌhərts 
-ˌherts
plural terahertz
: a unit of frequency equal to one trillion hertz
Visible light occupies the neighborhood of 300 terahertz, which is 300 x 1012 cycles per second.
Dave Doody
Dave DoodyTerahertz waves also occupy a unique window of the electromagnetic spectrum where a large number of molecules emit and absorb radiation. Michael C. Wanke et al.
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Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This latest project builds on Citrin's 2017 work applying terahertz scanners and data processing to examine the layers of a 17th-century painting: the Madonna in Preghiera, attributed to the workshop of Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2022 Recently, scientists from three international universities — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester — created a highly-sensitive terahertz detector. Gary Fowler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021 The tunneling transistor’s high sensitivity very quickly and effectively identifies a terahertz signal. Gary Fowler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021 What’s more, Hu says, the same strategy should enable the team to eventually make room temperature terahertz lasers. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020 But compact terahertz lasers have only worked at ultralow temperatures, limiting them mostly to laboratory settings. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020 Those photons were infrared in the first QCL, but in 2002 researchers in Italy and the United Kingdom created QCL lasers that emitted terahertz photons. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020 Optical clocks operate at 100s of terahertz – more than 100 trillion cycles per second – and can now provide 16 digits of precision in one second or better. Andrew Ludlow, The Conversation, 22 May 2020 But optical interferometry is far trickier: The short wavelengths of visible light, running at terahertz frequencies, cannot yet be digitized by any electrical system. Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2018 See More
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2022 Recently, scientists from three international universities — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester — created a highly-sensitive terahertz detector. Gary Fowler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021 The tunneling transistor’s high sensitivity very quickly and effectively identifies a terahertz signal. Gary Fowler, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021 What’s more, Hu says, the same strategy should enable the team to eventually make room temperature terahertz lasers. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020 But compact terahertz lasers have only worked at ultralow temperatures, limiting them mostly to laboratory settings. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020 Those photons were infrared in the first QCL, but in 2002 researchers in Italy and the United Kingdom created QCL lasers that emitted terahertz photons. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020 Optical clocks operate at 100s of terahertz – more than 100 trillion cycles per second – and can now provide 16 digits of precision in one second or better. Andrew Ludlow, The Conversation, 22 May 2020 But optical interferometry is far trickier: The short wavelengths of visible light, running at terahertz frequencies, cannot yet be digitized by any electrical system. Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2018 See More Word History
Etymology
tera- + hertz
First Known Use
1964, in the meaning defined above