C.Engineering (CENG) is an Italian engineering SME based in Rome which provides a wide range of consultancy services in energy, security, know how transfer, training activities and project management. CENG will act as overall coordinator of the project.

Address:
Largo Carlo Salinari 18/19
00142 Rome
Italy

Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) Nanophysics & Nanotechnology group has been established in 1995. Dr V Antonov joined the group in 2000 bringing a concept of sensitive detection of the THz radiation. RHUL will lead the project team working on design, nanofabrication technology and signal conditioning, studying enhancement of spectral sensitivity and dynamical range of the detector, as well as problems of coupling to optical system.

Address:
Egham Hill
TW20 OEX Egham
United Kingdom

IKnowhow S.A. was founded in 2002 in Athens, Greece. The Company develops technological solutions in the domains of Informatics, They will be involved in activities of image processing and in particular in the design and development of the Intelligent Alarm Management system.

Address:
3 Lefkados St. , 15354 Glika Nera, Athens
Greece

Address:
Willdenbrucstrasse, 15
07745 Jena
Germany

Address:
Grzybowska, 87
00844 Warsaw
Poland

Address:
Banhofstr. 21,
85737 Ismaning
Germany

Gilardoni S.p.A. was founded in 1947 and it is now among the main suppliers of X-ray and ultrasonic equipments, OEM components and services relating to security, medical and the non destructive testing sectors. In the security sector, Gilardoni is an International well known Company delivering its products to many airports. Gilardoni will contribute in defining the overall specification of the system, and will be involved in the Terahertz imaging system.

Address:
Via Arturo Gilardoni, 1
23826 Mandello del Lario
Italy

Institute of Optoelectronics of Military University of Technology in Warsaw mission is connected with research and education in the optoelectronics. The main area of research interests are design and analysis of optical systems; optical materials; detection of optical signals; security systems; image processing; infrared physics. The main involvement of IOE in the project will be related to the cold semiconductor electronics design and development.

Address:
Ul. Kaliskiego 2,
00-908 Warsaw
Poland

DIFI Laboratory of University of Genova has 20 year expertise in developing cryogenic micro-calorimetric detectors working at sub-Kelvin temperature (0.05-0.1K), and adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators (ADR). The Group has 3 dilution fridges in shielded rooms, equipped with cold low noise homemade JFET and SQUID preamplifiers, cryogenic, vacuum and electronics instrumentations. In TERAEYE, DIFI will be leading the work package on the Cryocooling and cold electronic system.

Address:
Via Dodecaneso, 33
16146 Genoa
Italy

LAHC is a laboratory of University of Savoie, founded in 1989. Its activities deal with ultrashort or high frequency electric signals, both in the microwaves domain and in the THz optoelectronics domain. The laboratory has developed methods and tools to achieve high-precision determination of samples parameters as absorption and refractive index. The role of LAHC in the TERAEYE project will be to study all the aspects of guiding THz signal from the focus plane (at room temperature) of the THz camera onto the cooled detector.

Address:
Campus scentifique
73376 Le Bourget du Lac
France

National Physics Laboratory is the UK's national standards laboratory, an independent center of excellence in research, development and knowledge transfer in measurement and materials science. The time and quantum detection team has a main research interest in precision metrology, especially quantum-based phenomena and determination of fundamental constants. NPL main responsibilities in the project will be to calibrate the frequency response of the Q-dot detector and to increase its quantum efficiency in the Terahertz range. 

Address:
Queens Road
TW11 0LW Teddington
United Kingdom

SKA Polska s.p. Z.o.o. is a contract research SME established in Lublin to exploit the local University knowledge on advanced materials and sensors to provide services for the development of novel measuring techniques and their integration in industrial systems. SKA will be involved in the Terahertz imaging system design and development.

Address:
Grzybowska 87-2
20 080 Warsaw
Poland

OptiSense Limited is a privately owned company based in West Sussex. The key areas of development expertise offered include optical sensor systems, highly integrated electronics arrangements, signal conditioning, digital signal processing, software development and thermal controllers. The primary role of OptiSense in the TERAEYE project is to develop the signal conditioning arrangement that will handle the electrical signal taken from the cooled quantum dot detector. OptiSense will also be involved in the development of the front-end optical signal collection arrangement  

Address:
Redkiln Way, RH13 5QJ Horsham
West Sussex
United Kingdom

QinetiQ Ltd. is a member of the QinetiQ Group, a world leader in the creation, application and exploitation of innovative technology. QinetiQ's Quantum Electronic and Sensor Technologies group has world recognized device design, materials growth, and fabrication technology based on III-V and II-VI semiconductors. The role of QinetiQ in the TERAEYE will be to transfer technology for the single THz detectors from RHUL, to establish reproducibility in a more production oriented environment and extend the detectors to an array format for the imaging and spectroscopic aspects.

Address:
St Andrews Road
Malvern, WR14 3PS, Worcs
United Kingdom

ORTEH s.p. Z.o.o. is a high-tech polish company originally created as a spin off of Warsaw Technical University by Prof. Sypek. The Company is deeply involved in research activities on difraction optics. They have some subcontracts for Bosh and Bombardier. They will be involved in the development of the optics of the system.

Address:
Ilskiego 25
04 479 Warsaw
Poland

Columbus Superconductors s.r.l. is a limited company founded in 2003 and based in Italy. Core business are contract research on cables and tapes based on a recently discovered superconducting material MgB2, Magnesium Diboride. Columbus will be involved in activities related to design and development of the cold amplifier and multiplexer components.

Address:
Corso Perrone, 24 
16152 Genoa
Italy

European Dynamics S.A. was established in 1993 and it is a leading European Information Technology and Telecommunications (“IT&T”) company. The Company has particular expertise in developing customised software and applications in the domains of E-government, E-business, collaboration, groupware, knowledge and workflow management, among others. European Dynamics will play a key role in the work package related to the TERAEYE imaging system, in particular they will develop the 3D tomographic visualisation system.

Address:
209, Kifissas Ave. & 10, Arkadiou Str.15354 Athens 
Greece

STAM s.r.l. is an Italian High-tech SME whose main business is the design and development of innovative electronics architectures and systems for the space and defence sector. Main customers of STAM are large companies developing integrated systems for defence application at Italian and European level. STAM will be involved in the development of electronics and noise filtering components for TERAEYE.

Address:
via Puggia 31/1                    16121 Genova  
Italy

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the biggest contract research organisation in Northern Europe.. VTT has previous experience on the THz radiation and cold read-out electronics. The VTT Microelectronic Centre (Micronova) contains a large clean room with a number of microfabrication facilities. These include a production line for superconductive electronic components utilizing niobium-based Josephson junction technology, as well as a set of design tools and a small number of scientists specializing in design of superconductive components. VTT will collaborate in the cold electronic design and realization.

Address:
TK6072 Quantronics            Tietotie 3, 02044 Espoo  
Finland

The Experimental Mesoscopic Physics group at Chalmers University of Technology is working with single electron device for over 20 years. The group is leading in the field of applications of single electron transistor for fast detection of small charge variation, thank to many device fabrication facilities, such as a new clean room, a top modern e-beam lithography system, and also many electrical measurement system. Spectral single-pixel sensor and multipixel sensor with multiple SETs would require the development of RF multiplexing and CHALM can help consortium in this innovative field of research.

Address: 
41296 Gothenburg  
Sweden

Ad-Venta is a small engineering company specialised in gas and cryogenic equipment, installed in all industry, like medical, food-industry and others. Ad-Venta has been founded in 2005 and has for objective to develop and propose new specific products based on a non destructive and remote measuring system for residual oxygen in modified atmosphere packaging, based on TeraHertz radiations.

Address:
Les Roches                26270 Loriol sur Drome  
France