IES is inventing the Wi-Fi of the future!
The TéHO* laboratory atthe Institute of Electronics and Systems has unveiled a Wi-Fi network capable of transmitting high-definition video at a speed of 1.5 Gbps. A world first.
What if waiting times online were soon nothing more than a distant memory? That, at least, is the prospect opened up by theInstitute of Electronics and Systems (IES) at the University of Montpellier. The TéHO group has just achieved a world first by developing a Wi-Fi network capable of transferring data at a speed of 1.5 Gbps. At that rate, it takes just 4 seconds to transfer a DVD movie from one computer to another. And that’s not all: researchers at the IES believe it’s possible to achieve speeds ten or even a hundred times faster. In other words, instant downloads of your favorite TV series. Behind this feat lies the use of terahertz waves—a frequency already employed in aviation security and astronomy but still rarely used in telecommunications. The development of this revolutionary Wi-Fi network hints at immense possibilities that TéHo researchers and students continue to explore. Leveraging the IES’s strong expertise in micromechanics, a low-cost integrated detector has been developed. The TéHo team is now working on miniaturizing the transmitter, an essential step for the widespread adoption of this new technology.
A Franco-Japanese collaboration…
This research is part of a Franco-Japanese collaboration involving Osaka University (Japan), the Charles-Coulomb Laboratory (L2C in Montpellier), the IEMN (Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnology in Lille), and the IMEP-LAHC (Institute of Microelectronics, Electromagnetism, and Photonics and the Microwave and Characterization Laboratory in Grenoble).
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* Terahertz, High Frequency, Optics