Professor Anding Zhu, CONNECT Funded Investigator at University College Dublin (UCD), has received an Investigator Award worth €900,000 from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).
Anding’s research project will develop digitally linearized, high efficiency, millimetre-wave power amplifiers to enable super high speed wireless data transmission with minimum energy consumption while maintaining high quality of data services in next generation (5G) wireless communications.
The award will support four PhD students and one post-doctoral researcher. The project will run for four years from 2018 to 2022.
Wireless communication has become a necessity in every person’s life, just like the power grid and transportation systems. The next phase of the wireless revolution, the 5G, is likely to be the most far-reaching and disruptive to date. It will unlock many new services, driven by many use cases from connected cars to augmented reality, to multi-K movies on mobile devices and many more. This project aims to develop a set of new technologies to enable super high speed wireless data transmission with minimum energy consumption while at the meantime maintaining high quality of data services in 5G.