Towards Terahertz Technology for High Throughput Communications

The demand for wireless data traffic has increased significantly since the evolution of internet and mobile technologies. However, existing wireless technology cannot meet the demands of future ultra-high bandwidth communication networks, since data rates beyond 10 Giga bits per second (Gbps) are not achievable by current millimeter wave (mmw) systems, typically operating below 60 GHz.
 
In this perspective, the Terahertz (THz) band from 0.1 to 10 Terahertz has the potential to provide up to Tbps link speed, in order to satisfy beyond fifth generation (5G) communication requirements such as high throughput and low latency. However, while the technology is rapidly advancing towards new transceiver architectures, materials, antenna designs, channel/propagation models, and physical layer techniques, there still exist several research challenges that need to be addressed before achieving the Tbps links in practice.

The goal of this symposium, entitled ‘‘Towards Terahertz Technology for High Throughput Communications’’, is to discuss the latest research and market trends in the domain of Communications including – but not limited to – the following aspects: 

•    Wireless Communications and Networks
•    5G/6G Communications
•    THz Measurement Techniques
•    Dielectric Material Properties at THz Frequencies
•    THz Sources and Antennas
•    Radar and Sensing Applications
•    Big (Science) Data, Distributed Computing and Storage

The symposium is organized by SWISSto12 S.A. and EPFL in the context of the TRANSPIRE project, a research activity funded under the “Future and Emerging Technologies - Open” (FET Open) program of the European Commission.