Ultra-compact quasi-true time delay for boosting wireless channel capacity.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 18 06 2023
accepted: 16 01 2024
medline: 7 3 2024
pubmed: 7 3 2024
entrez: 6 3 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Massive-data connectivity has driven the need for efficient, directed communications through beamforming arrays

Identifiants

pubmed: 38448694
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07075-y
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07075-y
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

88-94

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Bala Govind (B)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. bg373@cornell.edu.

Thomas Tapen (T)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Alyssa Apsel (A)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

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