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.
Energy & Green Tech
The world's first automatic and adaptive, dual-mode light-emitting diode (LED)-based optical wireless power transmission system, that operates seamlessly under both dark and bright lighting conditions, has been developed ...
Nov 14, 2025
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Engineering
The next generation of wireless communication will move into signal frequencies even higher than those of today's 5G systems, allowing signals to carry vastly more data at much higher speeds. These high-frequency bands, expected ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are engineered structures comprised of several elements known as 'meta-atoms,' which can reshape and control electromagnetic waves in real-time. These surfaces could contribute to ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Electromagnetic waves with frequencies between microwave and infrared light, also known as terahertz radiation, are leveraged by many existing technologies, including various imaging tools and wireless communication systems. ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have developed an antenna—about the size of a fine grain of sand—that can be injected into the body to wirelessly power deep-tissue medical implants, such as pacemakers in cardiac patients ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Telecom
A team from the University of California San Diego and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has invented a scalable technology that enables faster and more reliable 5G and 6G wireless communication.
Oct 29, 2025
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Hardware
Many modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as surgical robotics and real-time financial trading, depend on the ability to quickly extract key features from streams of raw data. This process is currently bottlenecked ...
Oct 27, 2025
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Engineering
Researchers at SUNY Polytechnic Institute are helping shape the future of next-generation wireless communication through groundbreaking work in the terahertz (THz) frequency spectrum—a range expected to power 6G and beyond. ...
Oct 27, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), cylindrical nanostructures made of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, have proved to be promising for the fabrication of various electronic devices. In fact, these structures exhibit outstanding ...
Telecom
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech), collaborating with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have achieved the world's first ...
Oct 22, 2025
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