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ReviewCommunications engineering2025

Sub-THz communication systems: pushing the capabilities of silicon.

James Gruber, Hamad Alotaibi, Amirata Tabatabavakili, Lili Chen, Hamidreza Aghasi, S M Hossein Naghavi, Ehsan Afshari

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Review in Communications engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

James GruberDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of MIchigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. jgrub@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-7294-1342
Hamad AlotaibiDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of MIchigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Amirata TabatabavakiliDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of MIchigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Lili ChenMediatek USA Inc., San Jose, CA, USA.
Hamidreza AghasiHigh-Speed Integrated Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
S M Hossein NaghaviDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5641-1250
Ehsan AfshariDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of MIchigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Silicon-based technologies have been researched extensively over the past few decades, but one ongoing problem has been bringing these technologies into the sub-THz regime. For wireless communications, these bands exhibit potential for massive improvements to bandwidth, data rates, etc., but overcoming the limits of operating frequency to allow devices to enter the sub-THz regime has proven challenging when designing working systems. Despite this, researchers have been developing novel ways to construct transceiver systems above 200 GHz. In this article, we showcase interesting designs that push the envelope towards more powerful, faster, and more useful silicon-based transceiver systems. We discuss transmitter systems grouped by modulation schemes as well as incoherent and coherent receiver systems. This allows us to point out the specific difficulties seen throughout these works and describe the direction needed to improve these systems. Finally, we discuss the future direction and application of silicon-based wireless communication systems as they move towards sub-THz regions.

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PMID41408411
PMCPMC12717078

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