Backscatter Breakthrough Runs Near-Zero-Power IoT Communicators at 5G Speeds Everywhere | Research Horizons

Low-cost, Low-power Devices Work Over mmWave and Use a Single Transistor to Transfer High-volume Data Anywhere Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Nokia Bell Labs, and Heriot-Watt University have found a low-cost way for backscatter radios to support high-throughput communication and 5G-speed Gb/sec data transfer using only a single transistor. Electronics and Nanotechnology Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure