Samsung Electronics is celebrating a demonstration it did in collaboration with the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB): the application of Terahertz (THz) spectrum for 6G wireless communications.

During a recent workshop at a IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2021), researchers from Samsung Research, Samsung Research America and the UCSB demonstrated an end-to-end 140 GHz wireless link using a fully digital beamforming solution.

That’s 140 GHz — as in spectrum that’s a lot higher than the 28 GHz or even 39 GHz that are fairly popular in today’s U.S. 5G deployments. That’s “fairly popular” in the sense that millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum isn’t exactly wildly popular, though it’s a lot more attractive than it was 10 years ago and all the major U.S. carriers are using it to one extent or another in 5G.

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