VOL.56
September 2019
News — ETRI Issue
Headline News
ETRI Wins Minister of Science and ICT Award for Commercialization of 5G Technology
On August 16, the Ministry of Science and ICT selected companies that had played key roles in the world’s first 5G commercialization and that had contributed to 5G R&D efforts of standardization, distribution of achievements, and services.
That day, ETRI and its joint research partners EUCAST and ARTECH won the Minister of Science and ICT Award for entering the global market, including the Chinese market, based on outcomes of 5G R&D. Korea’s presence was heightened by participating in the MWC, one of the three major global expositions.
ETRI Develops Nanocomposites that Shield
Electromagnetic Waves
ETRI announced that it had successfully developed ultralight materials that have high electroconductivity and can shield against electromagnetic waves by adding MXene to graphene composite materials.
With the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the world is seeing increasingly more electronic devices such as IoT devices and electronic parts for electric cars and self-driving cars. The electromagnetic waves generated from those devices may cause errors in the operation of other electronic devices or reduce the lifetime of certain products. Due to such adverse impacts, there is a growing demand for technology related to electromagnetic shielding.
The electromagnetic shielding materials developed by ETRI, based on its knowhow related to graphene nanocomposites, recorded the world’s top-level shielding rate among nanocomposites. In addition, the materials are able to accurately detect the resistance, which varies depending on pressure changes, and therefore can serve as a sensors to measure pressure.
These materials can be applied to various areas where electromagnetic shielding is required. In particular, the researchers expect the materials to be widely used in electronic and medical devices, electronic automobile parts, wearable smart devices, and robots that are exposed to high electromagnetic waves or that have high electromagnetic intensity.
ETRI Unveils AR Musical at International CG Expo
Korean researchers received a favorable response when they unveiled new AR technology at a prestigious international computer graphics exposition. ETRI announced that a team of its researchers had participated in the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH held at the LA Convention Center for five days from July 28 and demonstrated an AR musical that combined the theater with AR technology.
SIGGRAPH is one of the world’s most prestigious conferences and expositions in the field of computer graphics. ETRI researchers drew attention from the participants by demonstrating “AR space creation and location prediction technology” that can serve multiple users and new creative contents that combined “AR interaction technology” and animation features of ETRI’s joint research partner T-OZ.