"We call this technology a 'wireless fiber patch cord' because it offers the blistering speed of fiber optics without the physical cables," said Payam Heydari, NCIC Labs director, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and senior author of both papers. "By operating in the F-band—a frequency range well above current 5G standards—we can offer massive bandwidths that will transform how machines, robots and data centers communicate." Read More