TERA6G (TERAhertz integrated systems enabling 6G Terabit-per-second ultra-massive MIMO wireless networks) is a HORIZON EUROPE project funded by the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101096949.
The main goal of this project is to develop a new generation of wireless transceivers with Terabit-per-second data throughput capacity combining the use of carrier frequencies above 100 GHz and massive Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output (mMIMO) multi-antenna techniques to unlock the Fiber-over-the-air Concept. Key aspects of these transceivers are:
1) Frequency agility, providing ultra-wide bandwidth (up to 30 GHz per channel to handle any modulation scheme) and continuous frequency tuning of the carrier frequency from 30 GHz to 450 GHz, reaching into the Terahertz (THz) range.
2) Scalable transceivers based on combination of chiplets to increase the number of beams (spatial multiplexing) and frequency channels (frequency multiplexing), enabling Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques. These communications resources will be managed by the network to match the transmission capacity with the user demand at every instant.
3) Reconfigurable transceivers, exploiting TERA6G modules frequency agility and number of available wireless pencil-beams to unlock implementing a variety of functions, from wireless data transmission to channel sounding and radar ranging.
TERA6G consortium consists of 10 partners from 5 European countries (Spain, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland) which together bring the experience from various H2020 projects. Among those partners, there are 3 SMEs (LioniX International, PHIX, Cumucore), 1 industry-oriented research institute (Fraunhofer HHI), 2 large companies (Telefónica, Intracom Telecom) and 4 academic organizations (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, National Technical University Athens, University of Piraeus and University Oulu).
