Opportunities and Challenges in the Terahertz Gap
A. Dixit (Stanford University)

	 The region of the electromagnetic spectrum from 0.3 to 20 THz is a 
frontier area for research in physics, chemistry, biology, materials 
science and medicine. Explorations in the terahertz gap have led to 
discovery of new science in many areas but progress has been slow. 
Primary reason being the extremely limited supply of radiation sources 
in this region and the name "THz gap". This talk presents some of the 
exciting possibilities in this area and analyzes the difficulties in 
engineering an efficient and powerful (1-1000mW) frequency agile 
coherent radiation source at a reasonable cost.
	
Speaker Bio:
	Anand Dixit received the Bachelor of Technology degree from Indian 
Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and the M.S. degree from
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, both in electrical
engineering, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He is currently working
towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Stanford
University, Palo Alto, CA.

	From 1998 to 2000 Anand Dixit was with National Semiconductor, Santa 
Clara, CA, where he worked on touch screen controllers, PLLs and other 
analog designs for the Information Appliances group.
Since 2000 he has been with Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA where
he is responsible for the I/O designs on UltraSparc III and UltraSparc
IV processors. His current interests include high-speed interface
design, modern integrated circuit processing and processor test/debug.
He holds a US patent on PLL lock detector.

	Mr. Dixit was a recipient of the National Talent Search Scholarship 
from the Government of India between 1990 and 1996.