SHAH ALAM: Wi-Fi technology is getting a boost from a 1920s invention – the fluorescent light.
Universiti ITM’s (UiTM) Faculty of Electrical Engineering senior professor Dr Mohd Tarmizi Ali has succesfully harnessed the ability of ionised gases inside the fluorescent tube to act as an antenna to allow Wi-Fi signals to be received and transmitted.
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