NYU Wireless Gets NSF Grant to Study THz, Sub-THz Wireless
NYU Wireless, an academic research center at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, got a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to study THz band spectrum, said the school. The program -- and partners University of…
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Colorado-Boulder, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Florida International University -- will use the money to perform “basic measurements of devices, circuits, materials, and radio propagation channels at the highest reaches of the radio spectrum,” the release said. “Today’s cellular telephones and wi-fi networks operate at frequencies below 100 GHz,” said Ted Rappaport, NYU electrical engineering professor: “There is great promise for greater download speeds and vast new wireless applications by moving up to the underexplored sub-THz and THz frequency bands -- frequencies from 100 to 500 GHz, in both indoor and outdoor urban and rural contexts, and this support from the NSF will allow us to be at the forefront of exploring those frontiers.”