Communications Technology Laboratory
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Host Organization(s)
NIST
Lab Name
Communications Technology Laboratory
Lab Type
Government
Lab Location
Gaithersburg, Boulder
Website / URL
Brief Description of Research Areas
With expertise honed over decades of research in antennas and wireless propagation, materials science and electronics testing, as well as communications network protocols and standards, CTL serves as an independent, unbiased arbiter of trusted measurements and standards to government and industry. We focus on developing precision instrumentation and creating test protocols, models and simulation tools to enable a range of emerging wireless technologies. Driving much of our work is a spectrum crunch in historically coveted wireless bandwidths. Without a new generation of extremely high-speed, sophisticated wireless systems whose capabilities and limits we’re only beginning to understand, the spectrum crunch threatens to dampen the potential of wireless data applications as diverse as mobile video, wearable devices, and public safety communications.
Open to the Following Types of Collaboration
Collaborative research agreements, without funding, Joint industry/university proposal development, Industry gift
Lab Research and Data Published Openly
Yes
