MOBILE MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION AND LOCATION BY ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING

The goal of the MARIE project is to develop a compact and thus mobile material detector with integrated sub-millimeter wave electronics that is capable of detecting "on the fly" the material properties of a wide variety of objects, even if they are hidden by walls. This includes detection of common materials and equipment as well as potentially endangered or unconscious persons. Such high-precision characterization and localization in a complex environment requires a detector with very high frequencies up to the terahertz range. The development as well as the miniaturization of this technology necessary for mobilization are the focus of this project.

The project is part of the Special Research Field (SFB) of the German Research Foundation (DFG), which established a total of fourteen new SFBs at the end of 2016. MARIE is a joint initiative of the UA-Ruhr universities Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and Bochum (RUB). The Chair for Integrated Systems is working on the research of high-frequency multi-channel THz transceivers with integrated antennas as well as the measurement technology for characterization of such modules within the subprojects C03 and M04.

Part­ners
Uni­ver­si­tät Du­is­burg-Es­sen (DSV, NTS, ATE, OE, HLT), Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (HFS, PTT, EST, DCS, Chair for Integrated Systems), Ber­gi­sche Uni­ver­si­tät Wup­per­tal (IHCT), Tech­ni­sche Uni­ver­si­tät Darm­stadt (IMP), Tech­ni­sche Uni­ver­si­tät Dres­den (ADS), Fraun­ho­fer FHR, Fraun­ho­fer IMS