Telecommunications

Researchers have demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance of communications networksCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised and demonstrated a…

Credit: Arjun Iyer/Renninger lab/University of Rochester A new hollow optical fiber greatly reduces the "noise" interfering with the signals it transmits compared to the single-mode fibers now widely used, researchers at the…

Realized by NICT's original superconducting device structure using magnetic materialsCredit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) The National Institute of Information and Communications…

Leading venue for mobile computing and wireless networking research goes virtual The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing (SIGMOBILE) will hold its International…

Credit: Miguel Levy/Michigan Tech Optical signals produced by laser sources are extensively used in fiber-optic communications, which work by pulsing information packaged as light through cables, even at great distances, from a…

Credit: CRANN, and Trinity College Dublin. Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive ultra-short…

Bernd-Peter Paris, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is developing a novel radio receiver architecture capable of operating across a large portion of the wireless spectrum while simultaneously being…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University engineers and researchers are designing the nation's first statewide Internet of Things public infrastructure. Thanks to a $1.5 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation, Cornell faculty…

The Medical University of South Carolina rapidly adapted telehealth technologies to meet the needs of its patients during the pandemic, report researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationCredit: Sarah Pack,…

What The Study Did: Anonymous mobile phone location data were used to examine travel and home dwelling time patterns before and after enactment of stay-at-home orders in U.S. states to examine associations between changes in mobility and…

What The Study Did: Researchers investigated data collection and sharing practices of mobile apps played by preschool-age children and the associated sociodemographic characteristics of the children. Authors: Jenny S. Radesky, M.D., of…

The approach has potential applications in improving optical communications and making currency harder to counterfeitCredit: T. Xu/Nanjing University By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium…

Arturo Azcorra, director of IMDEA Networks, professor at UC3M (Carlos III University of Madrid) and vice-president of 5TONIC emphasized the importance of supporting research in SpainCredit: AMETIC The 34th Digital Economy and…

University of Arizona electrical and computer engineer will advance research into quantum sensing capabilitiesCredit: Quntao Zhuang Quntao Zhuang, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the…

Three University of Arizona engineers are involved in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, part of a $625 million federal program to foster quantum innovation in the United StatesCredit: Fermilab Three University…

Top-line research on mobile and wearable technologies to be presented ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, will hold the annual ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2020) co-located…

The lens can be used to produce high-resolution images with a wide field of view. It can serve as a camera lens in smartphones and can be used in other devices that depend on sensors (high resolution wide angle selfie obtained using…

Credit: Tomoyuki Horikiri, Yokohama National University Traditional ways of producing entanglements, necessary for the development of any "quantum internet" linking quantum computers, are not very well suited for fiber optic telecoms…

Credit: RUB, Marquard Calls via the LTE mobile network, also known as 4G, are encrypted and should therefore be tap-proof. However, researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have shown…

If verified, the mass-energy-information equivalence principle will show that information is a physical, dominant, fifth state of matter, and digital bits will outnumber atoms on Earth -- it's just a matter of time.Credit: Image courtesy of…