Tag Archives: 6G

The UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA) say they will build together on the success of the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), which employs 100 people in Harwell. Specifically, they will aim to strengthen work on the centre’s 5G/6G hub with a focus on satellite telecommunications. The agencies say they will also explore the ...

Nanusens has demonstrated a mems digitally-tuneable capacitor for 5G and 6G RF front-ends, that is compatible with CMOS IC processing and can be integrated with circuitry. The Q-factor is above 100 at 1GHz, and the four-bit capacitor has a minimum capacitance of 450fF (30fF/capacitor) with them all off and tunes up to ~1pF – a capacitance ratio of 2.2 which ...

At the IEEE VLSI Symposium this week, Imec revealed two ADCs for 5GHz ‘beyond 5G’ communication, one for base stations and one for phones. The base station ADC operates over bands up to 5GHz. It is a 10Gsample/s cmos hierarchical time-interleaved ADC that delivers 9 ENOB (effective number of bits) at low frequencies and 8.2 ENOB at Nyquist. SFDR (spurious-free ...

A University of Pennsylvania team has turned to yttrium iron garnet to build a non-volatile microwave filter than can be tuned across 3.4 to 11.1GHz. “What’s special about YIG is that it propagates a magnetic spin wave,” said research engineer Troy Olsson. The team is researching filters for 6G communication in ‘frequency range 3’ – FR3, 7 to 24GHz. “At these ...

SK Telecom and Intel say they have developed technology to reduce communication delays necessary for the evolution of 6G Core Architecture.. As network complexity continues to increase, the process of sending and receiving messages is frequently recreated. Therefore, communication delays will increase compared to before. It is difficult to address these limitations with communication standard technologies (service communication proxies) for ...

Aalyria has won a development contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to deploy Spacetime – its O-RAN compliant “network orchestration” technology – at the agency’s ECSAT 5G/6G Hub in Harwell, Oxfordshire. The goal is to “unlock new 5G/6G Terrestrial (TN) and Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) capabilities,” say the two parties, and Aalyria – a spin out from Google – is ...

For 6G to be operational indoors and out it needs an understanding of channel propagation characteristics at sub-THz frequencies, says Dr Taro Eichler. There is a growing interest in 6G, enabled by extremely high data transmission rates based on sub-THz communications. The vision is that in the 6G era, expected to be commercial around 2030, the digital, physical and human ...

Tokyo Institute of Technology has created a Sub-THz 6G transceiver, which will be revealed next week at the VLSI Symposium. Capable of transmission and reception at over 100GHz, and at 112Gbit/s, “by effectively suppressing the self-interference caused by the transmission signal leaking into the receiver, the proposed architecture reaches unprecedented data rates while maintaining a surprisingly compact size”, according to ...

The fundamentals of next-generation wireless communications are in progress and commercial deployment is expected around 2030. This will enable new possibilities, including holographic applications, extended realities and digital twins, says Dr Taro Eichler. The prospect of offering large contiguous frequency bands to meet demand for extremely high data transfer rates in the Tbit/s range will drive the next generation of ...

The winners of the IEEE Competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) for Beyond 5G and 6G have been announced at the Connecting the World from the Sky conference. First place, and a prize of $10,000, was awarded to a proposed solution for integrating of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, dubbed Multi-Mode High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) for Future Wireless Networks (pictured). It ...