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Terahertz technology has been receiving expanding interest in the recent years. With the help of newly invented terahertz sources, terahertz systems have been developed for various applications. One important technology for terahertz systems is the design of efficient antennas for terahertz wave transmission and receiving. Accordingly, the terahertz antenna measurement technology is of equal importance as terahertz antenna design. This chapter gives an overview of the state-of-the-art terahertz antenna design and measurement for a range of applications including the photoconductive antennas and radioastronomy/remote sensing antennas.

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Acknowledgment

The tri-reflector CATR presented in this chapter is part of the work of the pre-research program (Funded by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information) led by Prof. Junsheng Yu with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

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  1. EM and Antenna Research Group, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, UK

    Xiaodong Chen

  2. School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, No. 10, Xi-Tu-Cheng Road, Haidian District, 279, 100876, Beijing, China

    Xiaoming Liu

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Chen, X., Liu, X. (2016). Terahertz Antennas and Measurement. In: Chen, Z., Liu, D., Nakano, H., Qing, X., Zwick, T. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_47

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