Communication technologies including smartphones and laptops could now be 1,000 times faster, new study suggests
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 20:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Many of the communication tools of today rely on the function of light or, more specifically, on applying information to a light wave. Thanks to research, a physical basis for terahertz bandwidth (THz, or 1 trillion cycles per second) -- the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwave light -- has now been demonstrated.