NH IEEE Meeting - "DISTRIBUTED PHASED ARRAYS: CHALLENGES AND RECENT PROGRESS" by Dr. Jeffrey Nanzer (Distinguished Microwave Lecturer)
Sponsored by the IEEE NH MTT/AP Societies
Single-platform phased arrays currently dominate wireless systems, whether they be the handheld 4G/5G cell phone you’re carrying right now, or large radar systems and satellites. Single-platform phased arrays traditionally use an analog feed network to distribute signals between the antenna elements and a single centralized transceiver; improving performance entails a redesign or retrofit. In contrast, a distributed phased array consists of a number of separate wireless nodes where each antenna element is connected to a separate transceiver; signals can be coherently transmitted to enable beamforming and/or coprocessed on receive to coherently form beams digitally. With beamforming, distributed phased arrays overcome the limitations of single-platform-centric phased array wireless systems by disaggregating the functionality of large wireless systems into an array of smaller, cheaper nodes that are wirelessly coordinated and provide these benefits: enhanced signal gain, increased reliability, scalability, adaptability, greater spatial diversity (better SNR, think less cell phone fading!). Come hear this broad overview presentation introducing distributed phased arrays that will affect all forms of wireless communication, including the potential microwave system solutions to the challenges of implementing a practical distributed phased array undergoing real-world dynamics. This free talk is intended for both a general IEEE audience and MTT/AP Society members; all are welcome. (IEEE events are open to all; you do not have to be an IEEE member.)
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- Date: 20 Sep 2022
- Time: 06:15 PM to 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU)
- 2500 North River Road
- Manchester, New Hampshire
- United States 03106
- Building: College of Engineering, Technology, and Aeronautics (CETA)
- Room Number: 128B
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- Starts 26 August 2022 03:37 PM
- Ends 20 September 2022 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Jeffrey Nanzer, Ph.D. of Michigan State University
Distributed Phased Arrays: Challenges and Recent Progress
Biography:
Jeffrey Nanzer (S’02-M’08-SM’14) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, in 2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin, where he was involved in designing electrically small HF antennas and communication systems. From 2009 to 2016, he was with The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA, where he created and led the Advanced Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology Section. In 2016, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, where he is currently the Dennis P. Nyquist Associate Professor. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 refereed journal and conference papers, authored the book Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Remote Sensing for Security Applications (Artech House, 2012), and co-authored chapters in the books Wireless Transceiver Circuits (Taylor and Francis, 2015) and Short-Range Micro-Motion Sensing: Hardware, signal processing and machine learning (IET, 2019). His current research interests include distributed arrays, radar and remote sensing, antennas, electromagnetics, and microwave photonics.
Dr. Nanzer was a founding member and the First Treasurer of the IEEE APS/MTT-S Central Texas Chapter. He is also a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Education Committee and the USNC/URSI Commission B. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 2019, the DARPA Director’s Fellowship in 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2018, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2017, and the JHU/APL Outstanding Professional Book Award in 2012. He has served as the Vice-Chair for the IEEE Antenna Standards Committee from 2013 to 2015 and the Chair of the Microwave Systems Technical Committee (MTT-16) of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society from 2016 to 2018. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION.
Agenda
6:15 PM to 6:30 PM Meet and greet
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Presentation
7:30 PM Optional dinner with speaker at a nearby restaurant