{"id":187288,"date":"2024-04-13T02:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T07:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/how-curved-terahertz-waves-could-revolutionize-wireless-communication"},"modified":"2024-04-13T02:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T07:22:57","slug":"how-curved-terahertz-waves-could-revolutionize-wireless-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/how-curved-terahertz-waves-could-revolutionize-wireless-communication","title":{"rendered":"How Curved Terahertz Waves Could Revolutionize Wireless Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-curved-terahertz-waves-could-revolutionize-wireless-communication2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a breakthrough that could help revolutionize wireless communication, researchers unveiled a novel method for manipulating terahertz waves, allowing them to curve around obstacles instead of being blocked by them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While cellular networks and Wi-Fi systems are more advanced than ever, they are also quickly reaching their bandwidth limits. Scientists know that in the near future they\u2019ll need to transition to much higher communication frequencies than what current systems rely on, but before that can happen there are a number of \u2014 quite literal \u2014 obstacles standing in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/brown-university\/\">Brown University<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/rice-university\/\">Rice University<\/a> say they\u2019ve advanced one step closer to getting around these solid obstacles, like walls, furniture, and even people \u2014 and they do it by curving light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough that could help revolutionize wireless communication, researchers unveiled a novel method for manipulating terahertz waves, allowing them to curve around obstacles instead of being blocked by them. While cellular networks and Wi-Fi systems are more advanced than ever, they are also quickly reaching their bandwidth limits. Scientists know that in the near [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}