Critical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a
valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive
precursors can be detected. Recent technological breakthroughs,
notably in the field of near infrared (NIR), mid infrared (MIR),
Terahertz (THz) and Gigahertz (GHz) sources and detectors, have led to
rugged commercial devices, capable of standoff sensing a range of
these dangerous substances. However, at the same time criminal and
terrorist organizations have also benefited from the availability of
technologies to increase the threat they pose to the security of
citizens and a concerted effort is needed to improve early detection
measures to identify activities, such as the production of homemade
explosives or CBRN that can be potentially dangerous to society. The
key global technological bottleneck to be overcome is the current lack
of integration and networking of mature detection technology into
early warning systems for critical infrastructures. Thus, this book
brings together complementary information connecting the research of
leading teams working on critical Infrastructure protection with
academic developers and industrial producers of state of the art
sensors.

Presents state-of-the-art technologies discussed by recognized experts on critical infrastructure protection with academics and developers in the field of sensors

Autorentext
Prof. Mauro Fernandes Pereira obtained his PhD at the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona and has given important contributions to Nonequlibrium Greens Functions (NEGF) Many Body Theory of Transport and Optics of Semiconductor Materials. His research combines fundamental Mathematical Physics with applications to device development, with an impact in medicine and the environment, with a current emphasis on the protection of water critical infrastructures.
He has been named SPIE Fellow in 2011 for his contributions to the Theory of Semiconductor Materials and Optics.
He created the TERA-MIR concept unifying THz and Mid Infrared Radiation and was the Chair of COST ACTION MP1204: TERA-MIR Radiation: Materials, Generation, Detection and Applications and Chair of the Series of NATO TERA-MIR Conferences (2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018). He coordinates the TERA-MIR Network.
He has been awarded the SPIE Innovation Awards in Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics (2019) for contributions to science and his service through organizing NATO TERA-MIR and COST.
He was a research associate at CBPF, Uni-Rostock and TU-Berlin, a visiting Lecturer at Uni-Bremen, Senior Researcher at Tyndall Institute, Professor and Chair of Theory of Semiconductor Materials and Optics at Sheffield Hallam University and Head of the Department of Condensed Matter Theory at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, where is currently a Senior Scientist (on leave) before joining Khalifa University of Science and Technology as Professor and Chair of the Physics Department.

Dr. Apostolos Apostolakis received his PhD degree in theoretical physics from Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK in 2017 with a thesis about high-frequency acoustoelectronic phenomena in miniband superlattices. Currently he is postdoctoral researcher in Department of Condensed Matter Theory, Institute of Physics, CAS (Prague, Czech Republic). His current research interests focus on Theory and simulations in condensed matter physics, THz physics, nonlinear dynamics, semiconductor heterostructures, acoustoelectronics and opto-electronic devices. To describe the optical responses of these structures, he works in developing theory and computational tools based on Nonequlibrium Green s Functions, Boltzmann transport equation and qualitative theory of differential equations.

Klappentext

Critical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive precursors can be detected. Recent technological breakthroughs, notably in the field of near infrared (NIR), mid infrared (MIR), Terahertz (THz) and Gigahertz (GHz) sources and detectors, have led to rugged commercial devices, capable of standoff sensing a range of these dangerous substances. However, at the same time criminal and terrorist organizations have also benefited from the availability of technologies to increase the threat they pose to the security of citizens and a concerted effort is needed to improve early detection measures to identify activities, such as the production of homemade explosives or CBRN that can be potentially dangerous to society. The key global technological bottleneck to be overcome is the current lack of integration and networking of mature detection technology into early warning systems for critical infrastructures. Thus, this book brings together complementary information connecting the research of leading teams working on critical Infrastructure protection with academic developers and industrial producers of state of the art sensors.

Inhalt
Part I State of the Art in sensors for the protection of critical infrastructures.- 1 Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures.- Part II Beyond QCLs, ICLs and Superlattices: competing technologies for detection of explosives and CBRN.- 2 High Power, Widely Tunable, and Beam Steerable Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade.- 3 Broadband terahertz gas spectroscopy through multimode self-mixing in a quantum cascade laser.- 4 Crucial aspects of the device processing of quantum cascade lasers.- 5 Broadband gas QEPAS detection exploiting a monolithic DFB-QCL array.- 6 Global optimization methods for the design of MIR-THz QCLs applied to explosives detection.- Part III Superlattices and other technologies for GHz-THz sensing.- 7 Non-Destructive testing THz systems: fast postal scanner case study.- 8 Recent advances in superlattice frequency multipliers.- 9 Solid-State Millimeter-Wave through Terahertz Transceivers.- 10 Transmission and reflection characteristics of textiles in the Terahertz range.- 11 Transition between localized and delocalized terahertz conductivity in modulated nanostructures studied by Monte-Carlo calculations.- 12 THz Sources and Detectors Fabricated from High Temperature Superconductors.- 13 Semiconductor components for THz-TDS systems activated by compact fibre lasers.- 14 Soft chemical ionization mass spectrometry analyses of hazardous gases and decomposition products of explosives in air.- 15 On the prospect of application of point-contact sensors to solving the global security problems: an analytical review.- 16 Development of Gas Sensor Systems in the Infrared Region.- 17 Raman Cooperative UV Generation with Possible Applications in microbiology.- 18 THz Spectroscopy of Advanced Materials.