This workshop will showcase the imaging technology and systems being developed in Europe for next generation submillimtre wave safety and security systems. Security screening at airports using millimetre wave technology is now common place and is being adopted in adjacent markets such as loss prevention, crowd screening and mass transport. However improved performance is still needed to meet evolving threats and at the same time greater freedom is demanded by society during screening.

Systems using state of the art passive, active and combined active and passive submillimetre wave systems have been researched and developed to meet these new requirements and will be presented in this workshop. This includes passive systems with large cooled focal planes (~9000 elements), high frequency MMICS and multipliers and a novel 340 GHz homodyne transceiver. There are currently three projects coming to fruition which have benefited from European funding TERASCREEN (FP7), CONSORTIS (FP7) and TIPSSI (EDA) and they will all present at the workshop along with work from other internationallyrecognised experts in similar fields.