iTWire Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:17 IDTechEx explores graphene for 6G communications Shares 6G Communications needs graphene. 6G will initially launch at a few hundred GHz where several diode and transistor technologies are available in the laboratory but things get tough when second-generation 6G operates at around 1THz to get the ultimate response time, data capacity, data transfer and other promised advances. IDTechEx says this will coincide with 6G adding promised user benefits that can only come by handling higher power. The later 6G Reflective Intelligent Surfaces RIS everywhere will do more than smarten up and redirect the beams but actually amplify them, charging your phone and operating devices with no power. Making, manipulating and using the beams all potentially benefit from graphene, the total graphene opportunity being in the IDTechEx report, "Graphene Market & 2D Materials Assessment 2021-2031".