BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T190928Z UID:E255F081-47CB-4037-A27A-1FFC39C3E837 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260205T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260205T130000 DESCRIPTION:[]\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Satish Kumar Sharma\, Professor\, San Diego State University\n\nTopic: Design and Development of Flat Panel Phased Arr ay Antennas for Wireless and Satellite Communication Applications\n\nAbstr act:\n\nThis talk addresses the growing demand for high- throughput wirele ss and satellite links enabled by advanced beam-steering antennas. It high lights recent progress driven by silicon beamforming chipsets\, multilayer PCBs\, and 3D printing. The focus is on flat-panel phased-array antennas and electronic beam steering using beamforming networks and commercially a vailable beamforming IC (BFIC) chips. Examples of X- /Ku-/Ka-band arrays w ith dual-linear\, dual- circular\, and polarization-reconfigurable designs will be presented. Key challenges-BFIC integration\, PCB fabrication\, RF assembly\, beamforming algorithms\, and 3D dielectric/metal printing-will be discussed. The talk emphasizes Ka-band throughput testing in the lab\, over a 1 km OTA link\, and on a 100\,000-ft Aerostar balloon payload\, co ncluding with future directions.\n\nBio:\nDr. Satish Kumar Sharma (IEEE Fe llow) earned his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from IIT (BHU)\, India ( 1997) and B.Tech. from KNIT\, India (1991). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow a t the University of Manitoba (1999-2001)\, then Senior Antenna Engineer at IMT Corp.\, Canada (2001-2006)\, while also a part- time Research Associa te at Manitoba. He joined San Diego State University in 2006\, founded the Antenna & Microwave Laboratory (AML)\, and has served as its Director\; h e is currently a Full Professor. He received the NSF CAREER Award (2009) a nd the IEEE AP-S Harold A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award (2015). He has advise d 110+ trainees\, published 335+ papers\, holds 3 patents\, co-edited majo r antenna handbooks\, and co-authored an IEEE-Press/Wiley book (2021). He is an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2025-2027)\, AdCom member\, TC9 Ch air\, and founder/CEO of 5GAntennaTech\, LLC.\n\nDate & Time: February 5\, 2026\, 11:30am-1:00pm CST\nCost: Free\n\nEvent Co-Sponsored by UTD IEEE A P-S/MTTS-Student Chapters and MTT-S Dallas\n\nRoom: AD 3.216\, The Univers ity of Texas at Dallas\,\, 800 W Campbell Rd\, Richardson\, Texas\, United States\, 75080\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537027 LOCATION:Room: AD 3.216\, The University of Texas at Dallas\,\, 800 W Campb ell Rd\, Richardson\, Texas\, United States\, 75080\, Virtual: https://eve nts.vtools.ieee.org/m/537027 ORGANIZER:zeeesh@gmail.com SEQUENCE:17 SUMMARY:MTT-S Dallas: Design and Development of Flat Panel Phased Array Ant ennas for Wireless and Satellite Communication Applications URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537027 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong><img src="https://ieeeaps.org/imag es/distinguished_lecturer/Satish_Kumar_Sharma.webp" alt="" width="274" hei ght="262"></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: </strong>Dr. Satish Kumar Sha rma<span style="font-family: -apple-system\, BlinkMacSystemFont\, 'Segoe U I'\, Roboto\, Oxygen\, Ubuntu\, Cantarell\, 'Open Sans'\, 'Helvetica Neue' \, sans-serif\;">\,</span>&nbsp\;<span style="font-family: -apple-system\, BlinkMacSystemFont\, 'Segoe UI'\, Roboto\, Oxygen\, Ubuntu\, Cantarell\, 'Open Sans'\, 'Helvetica Neue'\, sans-serif\;">Professor<em>\, San Diego S tate University</em></span></p>\n<p><strong>Topic: </strong>Design and Dev elopment of Flat Panel Phased Array Antennas for Wireless and Satellite Co mmunication Applications</p>\n<p><strong style="font-family: -apple-system \, BlinkMacSystemFont\, 'Segoe UI'\, Roboto\, Oxygen\, Ubuntu\, Cantarell\ , 'Open Sans'\, 'Helvetica Neue'\, sans-serif\;">Abstract:&nbsp\;</strong> </p>\n<p>This talk addresses the growing demand for high- throughput wirel ess and satellite links enabled by advanced beam-steering antennas. It hig hlights recent progress driven by silicon beamforming chipsets\, multilaye r PCBs\, and 3D printing. The focus is on flat-panel phased-array antennas and electronic beam steering using beamforming networks and commercially available beamforming IC (BFIC) chips. Examples of X- /Ku-/Ka-band arrays with dual-linear\, dual- circular\, and polarization-reconfigurable design s will be presented. Key challenges-BFIC integration\, PCB fabrication\, R F assembly\, beamforming algorithms\, and 3D dielectric/metal printing-wil l be discussed. The talk emphasizes Ka-band throughput testing in the lab\ , over a 1 km OTA link\, and on a 100\,000-ft Aerostar balloon payload\, c oncluding with future directions.</p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bio:&nbsp\;<br></ strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri\;">Dr. Satish Kumar Shar ma (IEEE Fellow) earned his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from IIT (BHU )\, India (1997) and B.Tech. from KNIT\, India (1991). He was a Postdoctor al Fellow at the University of Manitoba (1999-2001)\, then Senior Antenna Engineer at IMT Corp.\, Canada (2001-2006)\, while also a part- time Resea rch Associate at Manitoba. He joined San Diego State University in 2006\, founded the Antenna &amp\; Microwave Laboratory (AML)\, and has served as its Director\; he is currently a Full Professor. He received the NSF CAREE R Award (2009) and the IEEE AP-S Harold A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award (2015 ). He has advised 110+ trainees\, published 335+ papers\, holds 3 patents\ , co-edited major antenna handbooks\, and co-authored an IEEE-Press/Wiley book (2021). He is an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2025-2027)\, AdCom member\, TC9 Chair\, and founder/CEO of 5GAntennaTech\, LLC.</span></p>\n </div>\n<p><strong>Date &amp\; Time:</strong> February 5\, 2026\, 11:30am- 1:00pm CST<br><strong>Cost: </strong>Free</p>\n<p><strong>Event Co-Sponsor ed by UTD IEEE AP-S/MTTS-Student Chapters and MTT-S Dallas</strong></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR