This is a Technicom podcast.

5G.

It's become a buzzword.

A marketing term.

Maybe even a sales gimmick.

But behind all the glitz and glamour of the promised tremendous data speeds and ultra-low

latency are the people making it happen.

And here in Europe, it's H-2020-funded projects that are enabling this research.

I'm Peter Ballant from Technicod, and today we look at one such project called Serena.

Serena partners are exploring the use of high frequencies for data delivery.

And the higher the frequency, the shorter the radio waves are able to travel.

So they must travel smarter, and this is where beam forming and new types of antennas are coming in.

Using gallium nitride on silicone as a means to develop high-performance millimeter wave active antenna systems

at a commercially viable price point while remaining energy efficient

is at the heart of Serena.

Today we talk with Serena partners Giuseppe Kaira and Thomas Kuhne from the Technisha

University Berlin.

Let's have a listen.

Welcome, gentlemen, and thanks for coming on today. Great.

Yes, thanks for the invitation.

Yeah, thank you.

In the intro, we heard a bit about the big picture in Serena.

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