CAMBRIDGE, UK – 15 October 2008 – TeraView, (www.teraview.com ) the pioneer and leader in terahertz solutions and technology for the pharmaceutical and defense industries, has been chosen by Goodrich to supply its proprietary continuous wave (cw) terahertz technology platform for Goodrich’s chemical agent detection system. Additionally, TeraView and Goodrich have entered into an agreement for TeraView to provide cw photomixers for the US security market place.

TeraView’s cw technology, developed by its terahertz scientists and product development team, is a state-of-the-art, proprietary platform, delivering exceptional performance and reliability in cw terahertz generation and detection. The platform incorporates the years of experience that TeraView has in the development of semiconductors and devices for its pulsed terahertz systems, with innovations specific to cw terahertz sensors.

This technology is being used in a diverse range of imaging and spectroscopy applications, and provides a compact, field deployable platform that TeraView can supply to partners. The Goodrich system is a high resolution spectrometer to detect chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals, and is being developed with support from the Department of Homeland Security. Potential applications include deployment in government buildings, transportation and other public facilities and on the battlefield.

Dr Don Arnone, Chief Executive Officer of TeraView commented: ‘We are proud and delighted to have been selected by Goodrich to support their efforts to provide the US government with advanced protection and detection capabilities. This commercial agreement is an excellent example of our partnership model whereby we supply our proprietary technology to collaborators, as well as on-going support of their productization plans based upon our years of experience with both terahertz technology and its applications’. He also commented ‘We anticipate that other partnership opportunities will evolve in the future where the terahertz platform could be incorporated into product solutions developed by key collaborators in applications outside of our core pharmaceutical market’.

TeraView was the first organisation to demonstrate terahertz applications in defense and security, and in particular that many explosives have characteristic ‘terahertz fingerprints’ which allow them to be identified below layers of clothing and amongst other confusion materials. TeraView also developed the world’s first stand off explosives detection system for laboratory development, and a portable terahertz explosives detection system which consisted of a hand held probe prototype capable of imaging and identifying objects hidden below clothing on a subject.