Liquid-Metal-Based Reconfigurable Components for RF Front Ends

In June 2013, the White House identified the development of broadband wireless networks as crucial for economic growth, specifically identifying innovations in spectrum sharing as being the key to relieving an expected spectrum crunch caused by the rapidly increasing number of Internet-connected devices, currently estimated at over 500 million.

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