TERAhertz integrated systems enabling 6G Terabit-per-second ultra-massive MIMO wireless networks

Project Information

TERA6G

Grant agreement ID: 101096949

DOI

10.3030/101096949

EC signature date 21 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 6 133 004,91

EU contribution

€ 5 892 962,55

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID
Spain

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TERA6G Promotion video

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Project info sheet

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TERA6G announcement

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Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan (FIRST RELEASE)

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Near-Field Semiconductor Imaging and Classification Enabled by Signal Cancellation Using Truncated mm-Wave Silicon Waveguide

Author(s): Yuma Kawamoto, Daniel C. Gallego, Alejandro Rivera-Lavado, Tadao Nagatsuma, Michael Nagel, Daniel Headland, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: IEEE Sensors Journal, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1530-437X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2025.3562280

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

Author(s): Stratidakis, Giorgos; Droulias, Sotiris; ALEXIOU, ANGELIKI
Published in: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 2024, ISSN 1556-6072
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15056462

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces as Spatial Filters

Author(s): Sotiris Droulias; Giorgos Stratidakis; Emil Björnson; Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024, ISSN 1558-2248
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2408.12205

Ultra-Wideband PIN-PD THz Emitter with >5.5 THz Bandwidth

Author(s): Milan Deumer; Simon Nellen; Sebastian Lauck; Shahram Keyvaninia; Shaffi Berrios; Matti Kieper; Martin Schell; Robert B. Kohlhaas
Published in: Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2024, ISSN 1866-6906
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10762-024-01001-z

Investigation of the Long-Term Stability of a Local Oscillator Generator Based on InP-Si₃N₄ Laser Source for Satellite Payloads

Author(s): ZARZUELO GARCIA, ALBERTO; CESAR CUELLO, JESSICA; GUZMAN MARTINEZ, ROBINSON CRUZOE; GONZALEZ-GUERRERO, LUIS; MITSOLIDOU, CHAROULA; DELGADO MENDINUETA, JOSE MANUEL; TIMENS, ROELOF B.; VAN DIJK, PAULUS W. L.; ROELOFFZEN, CHRIS G. H.; MARTIN JIMENEZ, FERNANDO; CARPINTERO DEL BARRIO, GUILLERMO
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024, ISSN 1558-2213
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15705235

Multi‐Octave All‐Dielectric Directional Coupler Using Integrated Half‐Mirror for Ultrawideband Terahertz Systems

Author(s): Daniel Headland, Daniel C. Gallego, Masoud Sakaki, Niels Benson, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2025, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/LPOR.202401644

Two-Conductor Ports Enabling Broadband Operation of Substrateless Microscale Silicon Waveguides

Author(s): Headland, Daniel; Gallego, Daniel C.; Carpintero, Guillermo; Headland, Daniel
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, 2024, ISSN 2156-3446
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tthz.2024.3407686

Advancing terahertz photomixers through the integration of photoconductive antennas with optical waveguides

Author(s): M. Deumer; S. Nellen; S. Berrios; S. Breuer; S. Keyvaninia; L. Liebermeister; M. Schell; R. B. Kohlhaas
Published in: APL Photonics, 2025, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0246801

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Author(s): Daniel Headland; Daniel C. Gallego; Masoud Sakaki; Niels Benson; Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2025, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/LPOR.202401644

Hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuits for Wireless Transceivers

Author(s): Tianwen Qian; Ben Schuler; Y Durvasa Gupta; Milan Deumer; Efstathios Andrianopoulos; Nikolaos K Lyras; Martin Kresse; Madeleine Weigel; Jakob Reck; Klara Mihov; Philipp Winklhofer; Csongor Keuer; Laurids von Emden; Marcel Amberg; Crispin Zawadzki; Moritz Kleinert; Simon Nellen; Davide de Felipe; Hercules Avramopoulos; Robert B. Kohlhaas; Norbert Keil; Martin Schell
Published in: Photonics, 2025, ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.20944/PREPRINTS202503.1212.V1

Investigation of the Long-Term Stability of a Local Oscillator Generator based on InP-Si 3 N 4 Laser Source for Satellite Payloads

Author(s): A Zarzuelo,J César, R Guzmán, L González, C Mitsolidou, JM Delgado-Mendinueta, R.B. Timens, P.W.L. van Dijk, C.G.H. Roeloffzen, F. Martin, G. Carpintero
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024, ISSN 1558-2213
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2024.3368798

InP/Si3N4 Hybrid Integrated Lasers for RF Local Oscillator Signal Generation in Satellite Payloads

Author(s): Cesar, Jessica; ZARZUELO GARCIA, Alberto; GUZMAN MARTINEZ, ROBINSON CRUZOE; Mitsolidou, Charoula; Visscher, Ilka; Timens, Roelof Bernardus; van Dijk, Paul; Roeloffzen, Chris; Gonzalez Guerrero, Luis; Delgado Mendinueta, Jose Manuel; CARPINTERO DEL BARRIO, GUILLERMO
Published in: Photonics, 2025, ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/photonics12010077

Robust unclad terahertz waveguides and integrated components enabled by multi-mode effects and matched slot couplers

Author(s): Daniel Headland, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, 2025, ISSN 2156-342X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2025.3583912

Matched dielectric slot waveguide as an all-dielectric terahertz magnetic dipole

Author(s): D Headland, A Kumar, H Lees, W Withayachumnankul, G Carpint
Published in: Optics Letters, 2024, ISSN 1539-4794
Publisher: OPTICA
DOI: 10.1364/OL.516561

IEEE Access

Author(s): Stratidakis, Giorgos; Droulias, Sotiris; ALEXIOU, ANGELIKI
Published in: IEEE Access, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15057333

Conference proceedings (17)

RF Phase Arrays for the Millimeter/Terahertz Range Enabled by Photonics

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, A. Piroutiniya, K. Spanidou, L. González-Guerrero, M. Ali, C. Tsokos, H. Avramopoulos, Z. Tegegne, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized Terahertz Systems (ICMMTS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICMMTS62835.2025.10926032

Demonstration of a silicon nitride optical beamforming network based on Blass-matrix architecture

Author(s): Loukisa, Eva; Andrianopoulos, Efstathios; Raptakis, Adam; Megas, Georgios; Gounaridis, Dimitrios; Grammatikaki, Adamantia M; Timens, Roelof Bernardus; van Dijk, Paul; Gounaridis, Lefteris; Groumas, Panos; Tsokos, Christos; Kouloumentas, Christos; Avramopoulos, Herakles; Roeloffzen, Chris
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15176456

Photonic-enabled Terahertz Phase Arrays using Dielectric Rod Waveguides for 6G Wireless Communications

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, K. Spanidou, M. Ali, A. Rivera, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2024), 2024, ISSN 2576-7216
Publisher: IEEE MTT-S
DOI: 10.1109/IMS37964.2024

Hybrid Integrated Microwave Photonics for Multi-Beam Antenna applications

Author(s): Roeloffzen, Chris; van Dijk, Paul; Maat, Peter; Visscher, Ilka; Hoekman, Marcel; Wevers, Lennart; Klein, Edwin; Timens, Roelof Bernardus; Mitsolidou, Charoula; Mohammad, Ahmad; Grootjans, Robert; Sahin, Furkan; Botter, Roel; Ruiz Pineda, Carlos Alfredo; Heuvink, Rick; Dekker, Ronald
Published in: ECOC 2024; 50th European Conference on Optical Communication, 2025, ISBN 978-3-8007-6426-6
Publisher: VDE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15199147

Characterization of Spatial-Temporal Channel Statistics from Indoor Measurement Data at D Band

Author(s): Weragama, Chathuri; Kokkoniemi, Joonas; Guzman, Mar Francis De; Haneda, Katsuyuki; Kyösti, Pekka; Juntti, Markku
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.18713

Integrated Photonics-Based Electrical Multicarrier Generation System for Satellite Communications in the Ka and V Bands

Author(s): Jessica César-Cuello, Alberto Zarzuelo, Charoula Mitsolidou, Luis González Guerrero, Roelof B. Timens, Paulus W. L. Van Dijk, Chris G. H. Roeloffzen, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: 2024 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2024, ISSN 2768-346X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MWP62612.2024.10736311

Towards millimeter wave phase arrays: electronics vs photonics vs packaging

Author(s): G. Carpintero
Published in: 7th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets), 2023
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States
DOI: 10.1145/3570361#issue-downloads

Characterization of Spatial-Temporal Channel Statistics from Indoor Measurement Data at D Band

Author(s): Chathuri Weragama, Joonas Kokkoniemi, Mar Francis De Guzman, Katsuyuki Haneda, Pekka Kysti, Markku Juntti
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817198

Beam-forming and beam-focusing capabilities in RIS-aided communications

Author(s): G Stratidakis, S Droulias, and A Alexiou
Published in: 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2023
Publisher: IEEE

Beam-focusing Based Hierarchical Localization and Tracking in Angle and Range

Author(s): Stratidakis, Giorgos; Droulias, Sotiris; ALEXIOU, ANGELIKI
Published in: 2025
Publisher: unknown
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15699618

Photonic Integrated Local Oscillator Signal Generation for Satellite Communications

Author(s): Alberto Zarzuelo, Jessica César, Robinson Guzmán, Luis González, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Charoula Mitsolidou, Roelof B. Timens, Paul van Dijk, Chris Roeloffzen, Fernando Martín, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024, ISSN 2161-2064
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647271

TERA6G: Reconfigurable transceivers reaching into the millimeter-wave range

Author(s): G. Carpintero, H. Avramopoulos, D. de Felipe, S. Nellen, C. Roeloffzen, Z. Tegegne, A. Alexiou, J. Kokkoniemi, J. Costa-Requena, D. Kritharidis, E. Yusta
Published in: 2024 IEEE/MTT RF Microwave Photonics Focus Session at IMS2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE/MTT

Photonic-based integrated millimeter-wave/terahertz sources and receivers

Author(s): Guillermo Carpintero, Kalliopi Spanidou, Alberto Zarzuelo, Jessica Cesar Cuello, Miguel Sanchez Rodas, Luis González Guerrero, Daniel Jonathan Headland
Published in: Integrated Optics: Design, Devices, Systems, and Applications VIII, 2025
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.3057441.SHORT

Photonics-enabled millimeter-wave phase arrays based on dielectric rod antennas

Author(s): G. Carpintero, D. Headland, A. Piroutiniya, M. Ali, L. González-Guerrero, C. Tsokos, H. Avramopoulos, Z. Tegegne, G. Schwanke, M. Deumer, S. Nellen, S. Lauck, L. Liebermeister, R. Kohlhaas
Published in: 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2024, ISSN 2575-274X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IPC60965.2024.10799706

Trapezoidal slot sections enabling tailored-width all-dielectric magnetic dipole antennas for substrateless all-silicon terahertz guides

Author(s): Daniel Headland, Guillermo Carpintero
Published in: 2024 49th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2024, ISSN 2162-2035
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IRMMW-THz60956.2024.10697902

Towards broadband dielectric-waveguide-based Terahertz instrumentation

Author(s): G. Carpintero
Published in: International Symposium on Terahertz-Related Devices and Technologies, 2025
Publisher: unknown

Design of a Thin-Film Lithium Niobate PIC for a Photonic-based Radiometer part of a 12U CubeSat System

Author(s): J. César-Cuello, E. Falcón-Gómez, A. Zarzuelo, K. Atia Abdalmalak, L. E. García-Muñoz, G. Carpintero
Published in: Space Microwave Week, 2025
Publisher: ESA/ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands