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.
Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team led by Professor Jinho Chang from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at DGIST has developed an "ultrasound-based wireless charging technology" capable of rapidly and efficiently ...
Aug 4, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers at EPFL and Harvard University have engineered a chip that can convert between electromagnetic pulses in the terahertz and optical ranges on the same device. Their integrated design could enable the development ...
Aug 4, 2025
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Hardware
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have designed a novel transmitter chip that significantly improves the energy efficiency of wireless communications, which could boost the range and battery life of a connected device.
Jul 29, 2025
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Engineering
The future of digital computing and communications will involve both electronics—manipulating data with electricity—and photonics, or doing the same with light. Together the two could allow exponentially more data traffic ...
Jul 28, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The development of more advanced technologies to process radiofrequency signals could further advance wireless communication, allowing devices connected to the internet to share information with each other faster and while ...
Engineering
In wireless communication, spectrum—radio frequencies that allow devices to communicate over the air—is king.
Jul 23, 2025
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Telecom
Analog repeaters dramatically enhance millimeter-wave (mmWave) coverage in mobile networks by overcoming signal blockage, report researchers from Science Tokyo. As demonstrated in a field experiment at Ookayama Campus, low-cost ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
With so many people using devices that can be connected to the internet, reliably securing wireless communications and protecting the data they are exchanging is of growing importance. While computer scientists have devised ...
Engineering
Terahertz frequencies above 100 GHz offer extremely wide bandwidths suitable for next-generation wireless communications, and research toward their practical use is ongoing worldwide. In particular, the 150 GHz and 300 GHz ...
Jul 14, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a new semiconductor device optimized for the next-generation 6G era and autonomous driving, offering low power consumption and nonvolatile operation. This innovative device ...
Jul 7, 2025
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