ABSTRACT
The unique properties of graphene plasmonic antennas open new perspectives on wireless communications in the terahertz (THz) band, with great promise in a world eager for high bandwidths, small form factors, and operational flexibility. The realization of THz wireless communications and networks presents several challenges related to, among others, the large propagation losses in this frequency band, the existence of frequency-dependent effects in the THz channel, or the lack of mature devices and circuits for THz operation. One of the virtues of the proposed methodology is that it allows to evaluate graphene-enabled wireless communication links from end to end. Graphene-based antennas present unique miniaturization and tunability properties in the THz band. Joining the tunability of graphene with the particularities of the THz wireless channel could also be useful to develop advanced physical layer and link-level schemes.
