{"id":209901,"date":"2025-03-28T01:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/graphene-based-programmable-surfaces-advance-terahertz-imaging-and-6g-communications"},"modified":"2025-03-28T01:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:16:45","slug":"graphene-based-programmable-surfaces-advance-terahertz-imaging-and-6g-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/graphene-based-programmable-surfaces-advance-terahertz-imaging-and-6g-communications","title":{"rendered":"Graphene-based programmable surfaces advance terahertz imaging and 6G communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-based-programmable-surfaces-advance-terahertz-imaging-and-6g-communications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The University of Manchester\u2019s National Graphene Institute have introduced a new class of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces capable of dynamically shaping terahertz (THz) and millimeter (mm) waves. Detailed in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58256-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, this breakthrough overcomes long-standing technological barriers and could pave the way for next-generation 6G wireless technologies and non-invasive imaging systems.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough centers around an active spatial light modulator, a surface with more than 300,000 sub-wavelength pixels capable of manipulating THz light in both transmission and reflection.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous modulators, which were limited to small-scale demonstrations, the Manchester team integrated graphene-based THz modulators with large-area thin-film transistor (TFT) arrays, enabling high-speed, programmable control over the amplitude and phase of THz light across expansive areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at The University of Manchester\u2019s National Graphene Institute have introduced a new class of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces capable of dynamically shaping terahertz (THz) and millimeter (mm) waves. Detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications, this breakthrough overcomes long-standing technological barriers and could pave the way for next-generation 6G wireless technologies and non-invasive imaging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209901","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=209901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}