IES invents 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. This is a world first.
What if waiting times on the internet were soon to be a thing of the past? That, at least, is the prospect opened up by theInstitute of Electronics and Systems (IES) from 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 Gbits per second. At this rate, it takes just 4 seconds to transfer a DVD movie from one computer to another. And that's not all: IES researchers believe it is possible to increase the speed ten or even a hundred times over. In other words, you could download your favorite TV series in an instant. This feat was made possible by the use of terahertz waves, a frequency already used in aviation security and astronomy, but still relatively uncommon in telecommunications. The development of this revolutionary Wi-Fi network opens up immense possibilities that researchers and students at TéHo continue to explore. Using 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 consumer application of this new technology.
A French-Japanese collaboration...
This research is part of a Franco-Japanese collaboration involving Osaka University (Japan), the Charles-Coulomb Laboratory (L2C in Montpellier), the IEMN (Lille Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnology), and the IMEP-LAHC (Grenoble Institute of Microelectronics, Electromagnetism, and Photonics and the Microwave and Characterization Laboratory).
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* Terahertz, High Frequency, Optics