€ 4M and Portuguese contribution to increase the wireless communications speed up to 10 times
26th July 2018
This revolution in terms of content sharing speed intends to meet the needs of the telecommunication area for the next years. It is expected that by 2020, the demand for broadband content and services has grown in such a way that the need for data-rates of multiple Gbps for short-range communications is a reality.
The biggest differentiation factor of the demonstrations that were conducted under the European project iBROW (Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers) was the use of RTD as interface between the optical fibre domain and the wireless communications domain.
The RTDs were tested with a 300 GHz and 100 GHz (the normal values in wi-fi range from 2.4 or 5 GHz) frequency of operation in the labs of the University of Glasgow and at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), respectively. An industrialisation process of the technology is what's missing in order the produced RTDs to be placed on the market. The video with a demonstration conducted at the INESC TEC’s lab may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjaVpJQrkg
“In the near future, in five to ten years, it will be possible to put microchips in devices such as mobile phones. The conditions for its manufacture were created in this research and development project, but universities and research institutes don’t have the capacity to manufacture these integrated circuits in series, this step has to be done by the industry ", explains Luís Pessoa, researcher of INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia.
Project iBROW was coordinated by the University of Glasgow and had two Portuguese partners, INESC TEC and the University of Algarve; four more institutions from the United Kingdom, besides the coordinator, Vivid Components, IQE Silicon Compounds, Compound Semiconductor technologies global limited and Optocap; two German entities, Nokia Solutions and Networks and the Braunschweig University of Technology; and two French partners, III-V Lab and the Commissariat a L Energia Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives.
iBROW project is funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the number 645369.
More information on this project may be found here: http://ibrow-project.eu/
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