Understand the future of wireless communications with this timely guide

Terahertz technologies are designed to allow ultra-high-speed wireless extension of the optical fibers that make up communication networks. Wireless communications in the Terahertz band are an important component of future wireless systems. The characteristics of this cutting-edge technology promise to bring wireless communications and sensing into a vast range of new fields and areas of consumer production.

Terahertz Wireless Communications offers an overview of this technology and its myriad of applications. Across 9 detailed chapters, the authors cover subjects ranging from terahertz enabled devices to physical testbeds and demonstration systems. The resulting volume plugs readers directly into the future of wireless communications technology.

Terahertz Wireless Communications readers will also find:

• Overview of applications in areas from next-generation communications, air quality monitoring to bio-sensing in healthcare technology
• Detailed discussion of topics including propagation channels, link layer technologies, integrated sensing, and more
• Open research challenges and examples to enable practical deployment of key knowledges

Terahertz Wireless Communications is an ideal reference for professionals and researchers working in 6G, antennas, wireless signals, and related areas, as well as graduate students studying these technologies.

Chong Han, PhD, is a John Wu & Jane Sun Endowed Associate Professor and the Director of the Tetahertz Wireless Communication Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He serves as Vice Chair of IEEE ComSoc RCC Special Interest Group on Tetrahertz communications, and has published widely on the subject.

Josep Miquel Jornet, PhD, is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Enginering, the Director of the Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking Laboratory, and the Associate Director of the Institute for The Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, USA. He is a pioneering researcher in the field of terahertz communications.

Vitaly Petrov, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has previously served as a Principal Research Scientist at Northeastern University, USA and a Senior Standardization Specialist with Nokia Bell Labs, and has researched extensively Terahertz band communications for 6G and beyond.

Ian F. Akyildiz, PhD, is the Ken Byers Chair Professor Emeritus and a former Chair of the Telecommunications Group at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and has received numerous awards and fellowships for his research into a range of telecommunications technologies.