DISPOSITIVOS VERSATILES AVANZADOS DE BANDA ANCHA QUE UTILIZAN MATERIALES FUNCIONALES DE ENERGIA DE BANDGAP ANCHO PARA 5G/6G
PID2024-159605OB-I00
AGENCIA ESTATAL INVESTIGACIÓN
Mobile broadband data sector is growing at fast pace due to their widespread availability, with digitization driving life increasingly online. This growth underscores the importance of wireless internet access while challenging the industry to enhance spectrum usage and more efficient telecommunications network infraestructures.
The performance limitation of any wireless network will always be at the physical layer, because, the amount of information that can be transferred between two locations is limited by the availability of spectrum, the laws of electromagnetic propagation, and the principles of information theory.
Solving a challenge of this magnitude will require not just new resources, but also a radically different approach to acquiring, deploying and managing these resources. To tackle the challenge of increased data rates with lower carbon footprint, all efforts can be summed up into three main groups: 1) small cells everywhere, 2) higher efficiency across the system, 3) more spectrum.
More spectrum demands more complex architectures in infrastructure and devices. This vision drives the effort to reduce the area per band for RF modules while expanding spectrum specifications.
Leaps in technology are necessary to enable these advancements in device performance. From a holistic approach, our research proposal focuses on the exploration and understanding of advanced multifunctional materials and their relation with the development of advanced devices to cope with the huge challenge of RFFEM Evolution. These application-oriented materials catalyze the characteristic function that the device must undertake with a high demanding performance, requiring new and advanced simulation, design methodologies and tools to explore new frontiers.The vision of WAVE-BEAM is the development of new devices arising from functional materials which display structural features and remarkable properties suitable to address the above challenges by implementing tailored design methods bringing out the best of these technologies. WAVE-BEAM will meet with a family of functional materials that may become game-changing players, as key enabling technologies, underpinning the future evolution of wireless communications