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256 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON TERAHERTZ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 1, NO. 1, SEPTEMBER 2011 Present and Future of Terahertz Communications Ho-Jin Song, Member, IEEE, and Tadao Nagatsuma, Senior Member, IEEE (Invited Paper) Abstract—Recent changes in how people consume multimedia they did with stationary personal computers connected to the services are causing an explosive increase in mobile traffic. With wired network. The Japanese government estimated a com- more and more people using wireless networks, the demand for pound annual growth rate of mobile traffic in Japan of around the ultra-fast wireless communications systems is increasing. To date, this demand has been accommodated with advanced modula- 71% from 2007 to 2017, with mobile traffic in 2017 becoming tion schemes and signal-processing technologies at microwave fre- 220 times more than that in 2007 [2]. One market research quencies. However, without increasing the carrier frequencies for firm has also forecasted a similar trend for the U.S. market: more spectral resources, it may be quite difficult to keep up with Rising by a rate of 117%, mobile traffic will reach 327 PB the needs of users. Although there are several alternative bands, PB Byte per month in 2015, which will be 40 times recent advances in terahertz-wave (THz-wave) technologies have attracted attention due to the huge bandwidth of THz waves and its more than that in 2010 [3]. To satisfy the needs of users, the potential for use in wireless communications. The frequency band data capacity of wireless communications has been improved of 275 3000 GHz, which has not been allo