Inexpensive Tiles Could Solve Wireless Industry's Millimeter-Wave Problem

Cheap wall tiles 'inspired by flowing streams' could fix one of superfast 6G's biggest problems

Future 6G networks promise blistering speeds, but there's a catch. The wireless channels they'll rely on can't pass through walls. But now, engineers have designed a workaround that could help solve one of the technology's biggest obstacles.The next generation of cellular network technology is expected to lean heavily on millimeter waves — a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum that can carry huge amounts of data but with wavelengths so short …

Inexpensive Tiles Could Solve Wireless Industry's Millimeter-Wave Problem

Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed what they say is a cheap way to end millimeter-wave wireless roadblocks, according to a LinkedIn post last week. T-Mobile, in particular, has questioned the viability of using mmWave...