Science Daily  April 9, 2024 A key challenge in millimeter-wave and terahertz wireless networks is blockage of the line-of-sight path between a base station and a user. A team of engineers in the US (University of Missouri-Kansas City, Rice University, Brown University) proposed a solution to this problem leveraging the fact that, in such scenarios, users are likely to be located within the electromagnetic near field of the base station, which opens the possibility to engineer wave fronts for link maintenance. They showed that curved beams, carrying data at high bit rates, could realize a link by curving around an […]