Innovating Works

iBROW

Financiado
Innovative ultra BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz...
Innovative ultra BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers The demand for broadband content and services has been growing at tremendous rates, and predictions indicate that wireless data-rates of multiple tens of Gbps will be required by the year 2020, essentially for short-range connecti... The demand for broadband content and services has been growing at tremendous rates, and predictions indicate that wireless data-rates of multiple tens of Gbps will be required by the year 2020, essentially for short-range connectivity. Currently available wireless technology cannot support these future demands, and so there is an urgent need to develop new technology platforms that are cost and energy efficient to enable ubiquitous ultra-broadband wireless communications seamlessly integrated with high-speed fibre-optic networks, paving the way for 100 Gbps datarates in the long term. The frequency spectrum currently in use is not expected to be suitable to accommodate the predicted future data-rate requirements, and therefore there is a need to embrace higher frequency bands, above 60 GHz and up to 1 THz. iBROW aims at developing a novel, low cost, energy-efficient and compact ultra-broadband short-range wireless communication transceiver technology, capable of addressing predicted future network usage requirements. This will be pursued through the exploitation of Resonant Tunnelling Diode (RTD) devices which represent the fastest pure solid-state electronic devices operating at room temperature with reported working frequencies exceeding 1 THz. Through the development of a unified technology that can be integrated into both ends of the wireless link, namely consumer portable devices and fibre-optic supported base-stations, the project aims at increasing the RTD output power, optical detection efficiency and energy efficiency at target frequencies, developing a methodology for low cost RTD manufacturing on a silicon platform, photonic integration and packaging, as well as identifying appropriate communication methods and architectures to enable its deployment in 10 Gbps short-range wireless communication devices in short term and paving the way for 100 Gbps in long term for both the mm-wave and THz frequency bands, seamlessly integrated with optical fibre networks ver más
30/06/2018
UNIVERSITY OF GLAS...
4M€
Perfil tecnológico estimado
Duración del proyecto: 42 meses Fecha Inicio: 2014-12-11
Fecha Fin: 2018-06-30

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2018-06-30
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ICT-06-2014: Smart optical and wireless network technologies
Cerrada hace 10 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 4M€
Líder del proyecto
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5