6G‑REFERENCE, the project advancing groundbreaking research in cell‑free, coherent 6G hardware enablers for integrated communications and sensing across urban environments, will take part in two events this September.
6G-REFERENCE at URSI 2025
From 3 to 5 September 2025, 6G-REFERENCE will attend URSI 2025 (XL Simposio Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio), hosted in Tarragona (Spain). The project organizes the special session on “6G systems and integration of communications and sensing” on 3 September at 9:00h, aligning perfectly with its core vision of dual‑use hardware components that treat communications and environmental sensing not as separate functions, but as mutually reinforcing capabilities. During this session, the project will deliver a presentation on “6G-REFERENCE Distributed Radio Specifications”, co-authored by the researchers from our coordinator Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) Zabdiel Brito-Brito, Ignacio Llamas-Garro, Jesús Salvador Velázquez-González, Xavier Artiga, Guido Luzi, and Riccardo Palamà.
6G-REFERENCE at EuMW 2025
Later in the month, 6G-REFERENCE continues its outreach activities at the European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2025, taking place on 21–26 September 2025 in Utrecht (The Netherlands). At EuMW, 6G‑REFERENCE will present its innovative paper titled: “Planar Low‑Cost Microwave Ring Resonator Temperature Sensor using a PDMS Active Layer”, on Thursday 25 September at 11:30h at EuMC49-3. This contribution showcases a promising proof‑of‑concept sensor that leverages a microwave ring resonator overlaid with a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) layer —whose temperature‑dependent dielectric properties cause a resonant frequency shift of approximately 1 MHz per degree Celsius— offering a cost‑effective, integrable sensing solution at around 4 GHz.
The scientific publication is a collaborative work of Zabdiel Brito-Brito, Jesús Salvador Velázquez-González, Fermín Mira and Ignacio Llamas-Garro, CTTC researchers, together with Yi Wang, Professor of Microwave Engineering at the University of Birmingham.
Together, these events underscore 6G‑REFERENCE’s commitment to elevating integrated sensing‑communications systems as key enablers of future 6G infrastructure. Through active participation in scientific forums like URSI and EuMW, the project advances its research agenda and fosters collaboration within the wider European telecommunications community.
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