The laboratory of Professor Fujishima in the Department of Semiconductor Electronics and Integration Science, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, won the highest award of the NE (Nikkei Electronics) Analog Innovation Award 2016, and the award ceremony was held at the Kokuyo Hall,Tokyo, on January 25th, 2017.

NE Analog Innovation Awards are designed to support research on analog signal processing technology in university laboratories and start-up enterprises in the field of electronics, and have been held since the 45th anniversary of the publication of “Nikkei Electronics.”

Fujishima Laboratory was chosen as the winner of the award because their research have opened a pathway to realize wireless communication by terahertz waves in the 300-GHz band with CMOS and created a possibility to provide a lower-cost 100-gigabit-per-second wireless communications system.

 “Terahertz is an electromagnetic wave that has characteristics between those of light and radio waves. Using this terahertz, we will be able to use bandwidth that is 1,000 times wider than that used for cellular phones, and realize the high-speed communication that we could only have with optical fibers. This time, we used frequency of the 300-GHz bandwidth to have wireless communication with a CMOS integrated circuit which we regard as a key for the practical use of wireless communication. We plan to consider new ways to utilize this wireless communication technology with overwhelming high-speed, and aim to promote wireless terahertz technology,” said Professor Fujishima.