AJF-Sponsored Activities

Sharing Advances in Next-Generation Telecommunications Technologies

Our project 'Sharing Advances in Next-Generation Telecommunications Technologies for Technological Sovereignty' is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF) of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Over 2022–2023, the project aims at bilateral exchanges of postgraduates and researchers between the University of Adelaide, RMIT University, Osaka University, and Kyushu University. These four universities have complementary and critical capabilities to drive next-generation (6G) telecommunications technologies planned to support ever increasing data traffic by 2030. The exchanges will allow us to share latest advances in this common area among the participants via laboratory visits and training. The project will promote our innovation, science, and education and people-to-people links for greater collaborations in next-generation telecommunications for technological sovereignty of Australia and Japan.

This page will promote our AJF-related activities  during 2022–2023.

Seminars in 2022

Terahertz Metasurfaces

A/Prof. Withawat Withayachumnankul, The University of Adelaide

and

Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications

A/Prof. Ke Wang, RMIT University

Wednesday, 14 December 2022, 13:30 – 15:00am (JST; UTC+9:00)

Venue: Osaka University

Audience: ~18

Substrateless Terahertz Integrated Platform towards 6G Communications

A/Prof. Withawat Withayachumnankul, The University of Adelaide

and

Evolution of Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications

A/Prof. Ke Wang, RMIT University

Monday, 5 December 2022, 9:00 – 10:30am (JST; UTC+9:00)

Venue: Kyushu University

Audience: ~11

Polymer photonics – challenges and approaches for a highly scalable platform in ultradense optical communications

Prof. Shiyoshi Yokoyama, Kyushu University

Friday, 1 July 2022, 2:30 – 3:30pm (ACST; UTC+9:30)

Venue: Zoom

Audience: ~34

Recently, with the emergence of bandwidth-intensive applications such as high-resolution streaming media, 5G, cloud-based service delivery, and the Internet of Things, fiber communication network or data traffic has increased exponentially. This rapid increase in traffic in data communications highlights the increased energy demand in traditional information and communications technologies. Given the implementation cost and power consumption aspects, one of the future challenges is to continue developing core technologies such as transceiver devices and cost-effective optical components. Among the different types of materials used in the modulator device, the high-efficient electro-optic (EO) polymer has recently received intense research highlights due to the invention of achievable 100 Gbaud and beyond signaling with the extremely reduced power consumption.

EO polymers offer important advantages and promise the performance as,

Biography

Academic background

Professional career

Research interests

Shiyoshi Yokoyama’s main interest is to develop photonic polymer and polymer optical device applications. One recent higllight is the electro-optic polymer modulator with efficient and high-speed signaling. He has aouthored and coauthored more than 140 papers in journals and conference proceeding. In 2005, he is awarded and commended for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Science and Technology. Currently he is coordinating the research projects funded by JSPS, SICORP JST, A-STEP JST, CREST JST, and NEDO.

Technical Co-sponsors

IEEE South Australia Joint Chapter on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) & Antennas and Propagation (AP)

IEEE New South Wales Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

IEEE Victorian Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

IEEE Northern Australia Joint Chapter on MTT & Communications (COM)

IEEE Queensland Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

IEEE Australian Capital Territory Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

Advanced terahertz devices and systems based on silicon photonic structures and resonant tunneling diodes toward 6G and beyond 

Prof. Masayuki Fujita, Osaka University

Thursday, 28 April 2022, 2:30 – 3:30pm (ACST; UTC+9:30)

Venue: Zoom

Audience: ~45

A wide untapped region exists between radio waves and light in the electromagnetic spectrum: terahertz (THz) waves. THz frequencies combine the penetration of radio waves and the large bandwidth of light, which makes them excellent candidates for next-generation information communication technology, 6G and beyond, such as ultra-broadband wireless communication, spectroscopic sensing, nondestructive imaging, and high-resolution ranging. However, THz frequencies are at the upper limit of the capabilities of conventional electronics, and the development of THz devices and systems is a challenging field of interdisciplinary research. In particular, it is difficult to generate a significant amount of power from THz sources. THz devices must, therefore, be as efficient as possible to conserve limited power. Resonant tunneling diodes, which can make the fundamental THz oscillation at room temperature, are a major candidate for both THz transmitters and receivers because of their simple and low-power consumption electronic devices. In addition, a low-loss platform for integrating THz devices is essential for various practical systems. However, the propagation loss of transmission lines based on conventional electronics is high in the THz region, mainly owing to the high ohmic loss in metals. Thus, an alternative, metal-free integrated platform based on THz silicon photonic structures is necessary to manipulate THz waves.

Biography

Masayuki Fujita received the Ph.D. degree from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, where he focused on ultrasmall and ultralow-threshold microdisk lasers, in 2002. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, and initiated research on photonic crystals, including spontaneous emission control in photonic crystals and high-efficiency light extraction in light-emitting diodes and silicon light emitters. Next, he moved to Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan, in 2011 and was appointed the Research Director of the strategic basic research program CREST, “Development of terahertz integrated technology platform through fusion of resonant tunneling diodes and photonic crystals” (2015-2021) and “Development of integrated devices and systems to control time domain and space distribution of terahertz waves,” (2021-) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. His research interests include terahertz materials, devices, systems, and photonic nanostructures, microstructures, and their applications. He is a Member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Laser Society of Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan, the Japanese Photochemistry Association, and Optica, formerly OSA. From 1999 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is currently a Vice-chair of IEICE Technical Committee on Microwave Photonics and Terahertz Photonic-Electronics Technologies, Japan.

Technical Co-sponsors

IEEE South Australia Joint Chapter on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) & Antennas and Propagation (AP)

IEEE Queensland Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

IEEE New South Wales Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

IEEE Victorian Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

IEEE Northern Australia Joint Chapter on MTT & Communications (COM)

IEEE Australian Capital Territory Joint Chapter on MTT & AP

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