Synthetic Aperture Radar at Terahertz Frequencies for Material Defect DetectionShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems, IWMTS, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025, no 2025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The emerge of Terahertz (THz) radar systems allows the short-range applications such as material characterization, hyper accuracy localization at cm or even better level, scattering analysis of rough surfaces, and material defect detection. The paper presents the experimental results about material defect detection based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) operating at THz frequencies. For the experiments, an electrical insulator is damaged causing the defects in the orders of mm and sub-mm. A SAR testbed at THz frequencies built with a vector network analyzer and a frequency extender in the frequency range 325-500 GHz is used to measure the electrical insulator in the form of SAR with a two-dimensional (2D) aperture. The damaged parts inside the electrical insulator can be observed clearly in the three-dimensional (3D) SAR image. This supports the material defect detection that enhances monitoring industrial production processes and controlling product quality.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025. no 2025
Series
International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems, ISSN 2837-0082
Keywords [en]
defect detection, GBP, imaging, SAR, THz, Electric insulating materials, Electric insulation, Polycrystalline materials, Electrical insulators, Localisation, Material defect detection, Materials characterization, Short range applications, Tera Hertz, Terahertz frequencies, Terahertz radars, Leak detection
National Category
Signal Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-27980DOI: 10.1109/ICMMTS62835.2025.10925857ISI: 001461108200002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005769199ISBN: 9798350365832 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-27980DiVA, id: diva2:1962941
Conference
2025 International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems, ICMMTS 2025, Dubai, Feb 23-26, 2025
Part of project
Novel THz Sensing for Enhanced Monitoring of Industrial Production Processes, Vinnova
Funder
The Crafoord Foundation, 20230898Vinnova, 2023-03092Vinnova, 2024-005822025-06-022025-06-022025-09-30Bibliographically approved