telecommunication

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Flip the switch: the tech in 35 million phones

20 Jul 2022

How tiny vibrations in minute metal structures – and a little bit of luck – helped make mobile phones faster and more efficient.

Existing infrastructure will be unable to support demand for high-speed internet

26 Apr 2022

Researchers have shown that the UK’s existing copper network cables can support faster internet speeds, but only to a limit. They say additional...

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Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications

12 Oct 2018

Researchers from the Cambridge Graphene Centre, together with industrial and academic collaborators within the European Graphene Flagship project...

Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications

31 May 2018

Researchers have created a technology that could lead to new devices for faster, more reliable ultra-broad bandwidth transfers, and demonstrated how...

BT and Huawei announce five year collaboration with Cambridge

16 Nov 2017

BT and Huawei today announced a new five-year initiative which aims to see the two companies establish a joint research and collaboration group at...

New light shed on explosive solar activity

02 Jul 2012

The first images of an upward surge of the Sun’s gases into quiescent coronal loops have been identified by an international team of scientists. The...

What is the price of free?

06 Mar 2012

Scientists from the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University have designed a method to improve privacy control in the Android apps market. The...

Graphene goes plasmonic

30 Aug 2011

Researchers have discovered a crucial recipe for improving the characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in the next generation...