US Patent Issued to Osaka University on Nov. 25 for "Dielectric waveguide, terahertz circuit and terahertz integrated circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,951, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Osaka University (Osaka, Japan).

"Dielectric waveguide, terahertz circuit and terahertz integrated circuit" was invented by Masayuki Fujita (Osaka, Japan), Daniel Jonathan Headland (Osaka, Japan), Withawat Withayachumnankul (Osaka, Japan) and Tadao Nagatsuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An UC dielectric waveguide of the embodiments includes: a dielectric substance wiring propagating a terahertz wave; and a medium disposed around the dielectric substance wiring and having a large refractive index difference with respect to the dielectric substance wiring. A THz circuit of the emb...