本論文根據太赫茲波的特性進行一系列的實驗，除了人造骨的太赫茲波影像呈現，也結合微流體晶片進行溶液中微小粒子和不同濃度溶液的檢測。
首先，本研究透過太赫茲波對極性和非極性材料的穿透性差異及接收器偵測到的太赫茲波強度分布，進行在人造骨的影像呈現，目前以1.5 x 1.5 mm的影像解析度成功做出直徑5 mm孔洞的影像。
接著，不同的材料在不同頻率底下，亦對太赫茲波有不同的吸收度，因此本研究將微流體晶片結合介電泳技術，透過非均勻交流電場，將流體中的微小粒子匯聚在最小線寬為30 µm的電極上，並曝照太赫茲波，0.33 THz成為本研究觀察實驗結果的重點頻段。
除了結合介電泳技術外，亦將微流體晶片和超材料結合，超材料在經過太赫茲波曝照後，會產生共振效應，此研究模擬並使用了共振頻率在0.42和0.60 THz的超材料，經太赫茲時域光譜儀檢測後，皆成功觀察到超材料使某頻段的訊號差異放大，且在注入多種不同濃度的液體後，亦觀察到訊號強度的差異及共振頻率的位移，其中共振的頻率位移與液體濃度呈正相關。

In this paper, a series of experiments are carried out according to the characteristics of terahertz wave. In addition to the terahertz image of artificial bone, microfluidic chips are also used to detect small particles in fluids and different concentrations of solution.
First, in this study, the image of the artificial bone is imaged by the difference in the penetration of the terahertz wave to the conducting and non-conducting materials and the intensity distribution of the terahertz wave detected by the receiver. So far, a 5 mm-diameter hole can be imaged by 1.5 x 1.5 mm-image resolution.
Then, different materials have different terahertz absorption at different frequencies. Therefore, through a non-uniform alternating electric field, a microfluidic chip with dielectrophoresis technology is used to capture particles in the fluid on 30 μm-width electrodes, then exposed to terahertz wave. 0.33 THz became the key frequency band for the experimental results in this study.
Metamaterials are also combined with microfluidic chips, which produce resonance effects after exposed to terahertz waves. This study uses metamaterials with resonant frequencies at 0.42 and 0.60 THz, which successfully amplify the signal difference at certain frequency band. The difference of signal intensity and shift of resonance frequency were also observed, after injecting a variety of different concentrations of liquid.

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