Happy Holidays!

We feel so much gratitude for the widespread attention and role we play with you in solutions for greenhouse gas mitigation, covid/airborne pathogen related CO2 monitoring, and the many other LED gas sensing opportunities for global impact.

This season, we are taking time to reflect upon the good things we have and especially our partnership with you. We appreciate working with you and hope that the holidays bring you health, happiness, and success.

Happy Holidays!

The THzDC Team

Do you have any year-end development needs?

Grab a few of our gas sensing LEDs – we offer both bare die and packaged options in many wavelengths with accompanying photodiodes for CO2 and Methane.

• 3.4 µm   Methane and Hydrocarbons Solutions

• 3.6 µm   Multiple VOC Solutions 

• 4.25 µm Carbon Dioxide Solutions

• 7.6 µm   Long Wave Solutions

Worldwide Methane Reduction

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Worldwide Methane Reduction

What part will YOU play in planet saving efforts?

GLOBAL PLEDGE

Over 100 nations and parties pledged to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030 at COP26 talks in Glasgow. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59137828

US RESOLUTIONS

The EPA has expanded their regulatory targets to include methane. https://www.epa.gov/controlling-air-pollution-oil-and-natural-gas-industry/actions-and-notices-about-oil-and-natural#regactions

THZDC SOLUTIONS

LEDs will play an integral role and are a natural fit for millions of sensors with high resolution optical gas sensing. https://youtu.be/DDpd_RnecQI

Worldwide Methane Reduction => One Sensor at a Time

It is exciting to see nations all over the world unite to reduce methane emissions and greenhouse gas destruction. LEDs are an important solution for methane modules as sensor needs will dramatically increase in this endeavor. Cost, resolution, and performance are only a few of the ways our Quic SLED™ LEDs and photodiodes will make an impact.

LEDs to decrease refrigerants contribution to global warming

Do you need to monitor refrigerants to meet the new standards for greenhouse gases?

In a bold move to combat climate change, the US Environmental Protection Agency ruled to drastically limit domestic production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners). Leaks often occur through pipes or appliances that use compressed refrigerants and are considered a major driver of global warming. 

The intent is to decrease US production and use of HFCs by 85% over the next 15 years, and part of a global phaseout designed to slow global warming. (www.epa.gov/climate-hfcs-reduction/final-rule-phasedown-hydrofluorocarbons-establishing-allowance-allocation).

We have the best refrigerant LED-PD pair for optical gas sensing
Be an integral part of the Phasedown plan

In case you missed...

Dr. Mark Miller recently presented at the

EPA METHANE DETECTION TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

"This LED gas sensing technology is an important new entrant for low cost, high resolution, continuous methane detection. These devices are especially well suited for monitoring oil and gas infrastructure, as well as for needs at landfills and in agriculture."

Watch the presentation now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDpd_RnecQI&list=PL1P8ajXEpoMdN6wSUsT4bgqvNSn6OLfTC&index=4

Summary: For the cost of a single methane camera, an entire field could be instrumented for continuous methane monitoring. Our new high performance LEDs and Photodiodes open up new methane sensing capabilities, with a combination of speed, sensitivity, and lower cost.

Dr. Mark Miller to speak at EPA methane detection workshop

Want to learn more about how LEDs can help control pollution in the oil and natural gas industry?

The EPA will hold a virtual public workshop August 23 and 24, 2021 to hear perspectives on innovative technologies that could be used to detect methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry.

Tune in = https://www.epa.gov/controlling-air-pollution-oil-and-natural-gas-industry/epa-methane-detection-technology-workshop

Our very own Dr. Mark Miller will present the distinct advantages LEDs provide in methane gas leaks and detection.  

Speed, sensitivity, power, performance and cost are among the top reasons to adopt LED technology. 

Sneak peek:  "Methane sensing LEDs can provide the benefits of optical gas sensing at costs suitable for widespread greenhouse gas monitoring networks.  

We have demonstrated a 1 ppm methane detection resolution with only a 1 s integration time using our methane pair. In a simple bench top optical sensor configuration with a 20 cm path length, we controlled the LED and PD with our reference design electronics. This result establishes resolution down to the global methane background level near 2 ppm.

In many settings needing methane point-monitoring, LED-based modules will be the sensor of choice. This includes the leaking US O&G production and distribution infrastructure between the ~500k wells and the more than 50M homes and buildings using natural gas. Additional candidates include agricultural and landfill methane detectors. The large sensor node unit volumes will drive costs down to price points which are necessary for deployment at scale to combat greenhouse gas emissions."

DIP INTO MID-IR LEDs THIS SUMMER!

We are best known for fast and efficient LEDs targeting Methane/Hydrocarbons (3.4 µm), VOCs (3.6 µm), and CO2 (4.25 µm) all of which can be paired with our photodiodes for maximum optical power.

In addition to being the only US-based supplier of gas sensing LEDs, we are the only LED supplier in the world offering this newest performance class.

The LED Advantage

Our QuiC SLED™  technologies capture the mid-infrared fingerprints of many gases (including important greenhouse gas offenders), bringing the LED sensing advantages of stability, selectivity, efficiency, battery operation, and value to the world's largest sensing needs.

Illuminating & Sensing in the Long Wave IR

It is thrilling to add our 7.6 µm long wave LED to the product line which is the ONLY long wave LED in the world. These can be used as mighty illuminators, but they also line up with the 7.6 µm methane absorption.

We are so confident in your ability to adopt LEDs into your health and environmental sensing solutions that we are dropping prices for bare or packaged die and evaluation kits. 

Earth Day Solution

Earth Day Solution:

To manage global greenhouse emission gases, we must measure them.

In many settings, LEDs are the best sensors for large-scale sensor networks.

We have LEDs for every single EPA gas emissions target.

Inexpensive networks with realtime LED sensors for methane detection from agriculture, municipal waste, oil and gas, and utilities can make a dramatic impact. We need to measure to manage these emissions.

Image source: 2019 U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions (www.epa.gov)

Our LEDs offer stable, low cost network sensing for infrastructure monitoring, oil and gas monitoring, and landfill gas measurements to slow global warming risks.

We offer photodiode pair solutions for methane, HFC refrigerants, and CO2.

Click here to discuss LED stability advantages

Fast Gas Sensing LED-Photodiode Pairs

DECIDE TODAY TO ADOPT GAS SENSING LEDs

LED & Photodiode pairs = FAST

The #1 reason to switch is SPEED. This fast and simple CO2 bench top setup is taking 1,000 measurements per second, 50 µs each, at 8ppm resolution. The raw performance enables game changing system benefits for speed, battery operation, and portability, offering dramatically better price-for-performance over other light sources. Adoption will distinguish your sensing. We can help you make the switch.

Bare Die, TO Packages, Surface Mount & Custom Assemblies

Fast and High-Resolution Co2 Measurements

Gas targets range from 3-12 µm = CO2, Methane, Refrigerants, Hydrocarbons, Formaldehyde and other VOC's

Detect gas leaks faster and earlier, monitor capnography with higher accuracy, take sharper atmospheric measurements for global warming mitigation, and with immediate importance in our lives right now, manage indoor air quality by quickly determining ventilation needs — research and policy continue to directly support covid-aerosol-Co2 related awareness and action.

About Us: Terahertz Device Corporation offers a cutting-edge product line of quantum interband cascaded super-lattice light emitting diodes (QuiC SLED™) and corresponding photodiodes (PDQ™). Our patented devices based on GaSb/InAs-based heterostructures span the entire mid-wave and long-wave infrared spectrum between 3-12 µm, the infrared "fingerprint" region, with LEDs producing more than 10 mW of peak output power.

Happy Holidays 2020

Happy holidays from Terahertz Devices!

As the year comes to a close, we wish to thank our many amazing customers, suppliers, and partners who made this year successful.

We feel fortunate and joyful as we see our products impact the marketplace and relish our relationships with each of you.

Best wishes to you and yours,
Happy Holidays!

*We look forward to announcing new LED-photodiode pairs for CO2, methane, refrigerants, and other hydrocarbons in 2021.

Click here to place final orders of the year

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