Gigahertz (GHz)

Gigahertz (GHz)

One billion cycles per second. Signals operating above 3 Gigahertz are known as microwaves. above 30 GHz they are know as millimetre waves. As one moves above the millimetre waves signals begin to take on the characteristics of Iightwaves.

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