{"id":230297,"date":"2026-02-01T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/telecommunications-beyond-6g-the-first-standalone-spin-wave-chip-with-a-built-in-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:04:59","slug":"telecommunications-beyond-6g-the-first-standalone-spin-wave-chip-with-a-built-in-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/telecommunications-beyond-6g-the-first-standalone-spin-wave-chip-with-a-built-in-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Telecommunications beyond 6G: the first standalone spin-wave chip with a built-in magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/telecommunications-beyond-6g-the-first-standalone-spin-wave-chip-with-a-built-in-magnetic-field.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_Hlk158812115\">Milan, <em>13<sup>th<\/sup> January 2025 <\/em><\/a> \u2014 The Politecnico di Milano has created the first integrated and fully tunable device based on spin waves, opening up new possibilities for the telecommunications of the future, far beyond current 5G and 6G standards. The study, published in the journal <em>Advanced Materials<\/em>, was conducted by a research group led by <strong>Riccardo Bertacco <\/strong>of the Department of Physics of the Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with <strong>Philipp Pirro <\/strong>of<strong> <\/strong>Rheinland-Pf\u00e4lzische Technische Universit\u00e4t and <strong>Silvia Tacchi <\/strong>of Istituto Officina dei Materiali \u2014 CNR-IOM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magnonics<\/strong> is an emerging technology that uses spin waves \u2013 collective excitations of electronic spins in magnetic materials \u2013 as an alternative to electrical signals. The spread of this technology has been restricted until now by the need for an external magnetic field, which has prevented it being incorporated into chips.<\/p>\n<p>The new device developed at the Politecnico overcomes this hurdle: it is miniaturised (100 \u00d7 150 square micrometres, so much smaller than current radiofrequency signal processing devices based on acoustic waves); it is fully integrated on silicon \u2013 and therefore compatible with existing electronic platforms, and it functions without external magnets, thanks to an innovative combination of permanent SmCo micromagnets and magnetic flux concentrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milan, 13th January 2025 \u2014 The Politecnico di Milano has created the first integrated and fully tunable device based on spin waves, opening up new possibilities for the telecommunications of the future, far beyond current 5G and 6G standards. The study, published in the journal Advanced Materials, was conducted by a research group led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230297","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}