6G communication hardware encompasses devices and architectures that enable ultra-high data rate, low-latency wireless links across millimeter-wave, terahertz, and optical bands. Work in this area integrates electronic and photonic components into compact transceivers, phased arrays, and radar chips, often co-packaged for energy-efficient bits-to-antenna operation. It also includes reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, advanced RF switches, and quantum- or AI-assisted signal processing to support dense networks, integrated sensing and communication, and free-space optical and satellite-class links for beyond-5G systems.
Engineering
A satellite phased-array transceiver that folds up for launch and unfolds in space has been shown to work successfully in orbit, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. By using an innovative approach to correct nonplanar ...
Sep 16, 2026
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Telecom
Cable television (CATV) remains a cornerstone of how national broadcasts and emergency information reach thousands of households. Unfortunately, many older apartment buildings were not built with fiber-optic wiring in mind, ...
Sep 9, 2026
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Engineering
A joint research team led by Professors Sangyoon Han and Jaesok Yu of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST has developed the world's first miniature optical ultrasonic sensor, thinner than a human ...
Sep 8, 2026
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Telecom
Research published in the International Journal of Sensor Networks has demonstrated a visible-light communication system that uses the inherent randomness of quantum noise to make transmitted data harder for hackers to intercept.
Sep 8, 2026
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Telecom
Every time you make a phone call, stream a video or connect to Wi-Fi, your device is sending and receiving invisible signals through the air. So are your baby monitor, garage door opener, GPS, weather-monitoring satellites ...
Sep 8, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
MIT researchers have overcome a major challenge holding back the real-world deployment of microwave quantum technologies for advanced signal processing and secure communications.
Aug 19, 2026
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Engineering
Unlike Wi-Fi or cellular signals, millimeter-wave wireless communication channels are unable to pass through walls, furniture or other objects. This reality is part of what is holding back the implementation of millimeter-wave ...
Aug 19, 2026
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Engineering
A research team led by senior researcher Bongseok Kim of the Future Mobility Research Division at DGIST has developed a "low-complexity receiver technology" that can simultaneously communicate data and detect surrounding ...
Aug 19, 2026
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Telecom
Anyone who has struggled through a poor phone call knows the frustration of missing half a conversation. Now researchers at Queen Mary University of London, led by Paul Anthony Haigh, have developed an artificial intelligence ...
Aug 12, 2026
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Telecom
For the first time, researchers have developed a technology that could enable 6G antennas to be mass-produced on wafers in much the same way as semiconductor devices.
Aug 12, 2026
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