Using geometry, researchers coax light into 6G terahertz “super-antenna”

In paradigm shifting research, Ranjan Singh and an international team of researchers have created a terahertz super-antenna that beams data into open space at speeds about 100 times faster than home Wi-Fi.

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Glowing orange light waves travel along and bend around a geometric, triangular-patterned surface, illustrating researchers guiding light through a structured material to form a 6G terahertz “super-antenna.”
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College of Engineering welcomes nine new faculty

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes nine new faculty across all five of its departments.  “I …

Notre Dame Innovation Challenge

Notre Dame launches inaugural Innovation Challenge with plastic waste as first-year focus

When the echoes of the marching band fade and the last of more than 77,000 fans depart, the memories remain—but so …

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Thomas O’Sullivan named SPIE Fellow

Thomas O’Sullivan, Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Professor of Biomedical Electronics in the Department of Electrical …

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Notre Dame researchers to develop wearable tech to improve childbirth safety  

The University of Notre Dame is a critical partner in a new multi-university research consortium selected by the …

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Nishanth Gadiyar receives 2026 IEEE IAS Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award

Nishanth Gadiyar, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the …

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2026 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellows in Engineering

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes six new postdoctoral fellows through the Provost’s Postdoctoral …

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Seeing Deeper, Faster, and Clearer with Photoacoustic, Ultrafast, and Quantum Imaging

Yide Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder
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Building Robots for Special Populations in the Home

Brian Scassellati, Yale University
10:30 a.m., October 16, 2026

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Fighting for the Dignity of Independence

Inspired by his dad’s ALS diagnosis, electrical engineering major John Sexton is working to better equip people confined to a powerchair.

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