M3TERA, a European cooperative research project, has officially started on 1st February 2015 with a set duration of 36 months. It receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 644039.

This work was supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education‚ Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 15.0059. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Swiss Government.

This project envisions the wide-spread use of low-cost THz technology in our society, enabled by the proposed micromachined heterogeneous integration platform, which provides an unprecedented way to highly-integrated, volume-manufactuable, reliable, reconfigurable, cost- and energy-efficient submillimeter-wave and terahertz (THz) systems.