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    The August 2007 Special Issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE (v.95, no.8), edited by IEEE Fellows Derek Abbot and Xi-Cheng Zhang, focuses on emerging applications and technological advances in T-ray (terahertz) imaging, sensing, and retection. In recent years, as advances in femtosecond laser technology have enabled the technology to emerge as a safe imaging method, T-rays have become an important tool for the noninvasive sensing of materials and structures.

    Key applications currently driving the technology are in the defense, security, and biosensing industries and span a wide range of hardware and signal processing issues. This special issue contains papers that discuss both the technical and practical applications of T-rays, covering six major themes related to the technology: T-ray imaging and retection; T-ray bio- and chemical sensing; novel T-ray technology; T-rays for material, semiconductor, and IC diagnostics; high power electron-based T-ray sources; and bridging the T-rays to millimeter wave region.