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Using the Terahertz Spectrum for Wireless Communication

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the kicking-it-up-a-notch dept.

holy_calamity writes "A first step to allowing wireless data transfer over a currently unused part of the electromagnetic spectrum is reported in New Scientist. Terahertz radiation exists between radio and infrared. A new filter created at the University of Utah can filter out particular frequencies, a prerequisite for using it for data. The abstract of the paper in the journal Nature is freely available."

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  1. Re:It might just take a while by evilviper · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is also the slight problem of water absorption of the signal [...] so communication would have to be rather short-haul as in LAN.

    Which is EXACTLY what TFA said...

    But hey, what do I know, your post is a +5, so it must be somehow insightful, not 100% redundant.
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  2. Re:Hmm, by cyphercell · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Actually, screw names, I'm going to the patent office!

    Patents!!!

    P.S. - Mod me insightful.

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