6G

6G is the sixth generation of mobile communication and planned to succeed the new 5G standard in 2023 to increase transmission rates. 5G has data rates of up to 20 gigabit per second and latency of around 1 millisecond. We are a bit more ambitious with 6G: one terabit per second at a latency of around 100 microseconds – that is fifty times the speed and only a tenth of the latency of 5G. Many applications could benefit from numbers like these: Industry 4.0, medical technology, driverless cars, smart cities, and the entertainment world.

Meet 6G’s Future with Holographic Communication

5G is not fully rolled out yet, but Fraunhofer IZM is already pursuing research on 6G communication modules. As these modules must be distributed more densely, the hardware has to become more compact. Finding the right way to miniaturize modules…

6G Is Coming To Make Good on the Promises of 5G

A new era of mobile communication is about to begin: Transmitting a whole terabit of data, one thousand gigabits, per second. Dr. Ivan Ndip, specialist for antenna and high-frequency systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in…