Agenda

8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Administrative remarks, Introduction, and Virtual Tour of the MITRE Advanced Manufacturing Lab

Session 1, Chair: Prof. Mark Mirotznik (Univ. of Delaware)

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Prof. Mark Mirotznik, University of Delaware
Additive Manufacture of a Conformal Feed Array for Wide Scan Angle Passive Beamsteering

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Dr. Paul Parsons, DeLUX Adv. Manufacturing LLC
Solutions for RF Applications Using Hybrid Manufacturing Methods and Materials

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Prof. Raymond Rumpf, The Univ. of Texas El Paso
Slicing and Processes for Hybrid 3D Printing of Three-Dimensional Circuits and Electromagnetic Structures

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Prof. Jonathan Chisum, Notre Dame
High-frequency Limitations of Printed Metamaterial Antennas

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Prof. Prem Chahal, Michigan State University
Heterogeneous Integration of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Circuits Using Additive Manufacturing

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch (provided)

Session 2, Chair: Prof. Alkim Akyurtlu (UMass Lowell)

12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Yuri Piro, UMass Lowell
Development of Novel Dielectric Inks for Additive Manufacturing of RF and MW Devices

1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Fahima Ouchen, Air Force Research Laboratory
AM for Extremely Thin Active Antennas for Space Applications

1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael Cason, Raytheon Technologies
Enabling Technologies for Printed RF Electronics

2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Break

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Dan Hines, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Additive Manufacturing Methods for the Fabrication of High-Quality Electronic Circuits and RF Components

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Dr. Jaim Nulman, Nano Dimension
Additively Manufactured Electronic (AME) Devices for mmWave Applications

Session 3, Chair: Dr. Wajih Elsallal (MITRE)

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tim Smith, Cubic-Nuvotronics
Domestic, Multi-Function Additive Manufacturing Technology for RF & mmWave Applications

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Dr. CJ Reddy, Altair
Advanced EM Simulation Tools for Additive Manufacturing of Conformal Antennas and RF Devices

4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Petr Beaulieu, CAES / SWISSto12
Additive Manufacturing of Antennas and Antennas Components

5:00 p.m.
Adjourn for the day

Session 4, Chair: Dr. Ian McMichael (MITRE)

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
John Liston, The MITRE Corporation
On the Additively Manufactured Frequency-scaled Ultra-wideband Spectrum Element (FUSE) Phased Arrays

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Eric Robinson, The MITRE Corporation
The Design of an Additively Manufactured Internally Metalized FUSE Array Aperture

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Greg Huff, Penn State
3D Printed and Additively Manufactured Radiators, Surfaces, and Beamforming Networks

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Break

10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Dr. Kurt Christenson, Optomec
Printed RF Microstrip Interconnects for Reduced Losses in mmWave Assemblies

11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Dr. Brad Duncan, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Materials Development for Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch (provided)

Session 5, Chair: Dr. Tom Spence (Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems)

12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Tom Spence, Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems
Direct Polymer Printing Onto Wafers for Wideband mmW Antenna Array Aperture Development

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Bob Maloney, Northrop Grumman Corp. Space Systems
Demonstration of a 3D Printed Element Array and Lens Aperture

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Joseph Kunze, Scott Miller, Eric Forsythe, SI2 Technologies / NextFlex / Army Research Laboratory
Direct Manufacturing of RF Sub-systems onto Large DoD Weapon Platform Structures, An Industry-DoD Manufacturing USA Institute Collaboration

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Break

2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Srikanth Sivasankaran, National Radio Astronomy Observatory / Optisys
Cryogenic Measurements of AM Waveguides for Radio Astronomy

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Prof. Jing Wang, University of South Florida
Additive Manufacturing of Antennas, Phased Antenna Arrays, and mmWave Front-End Transceivers

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Anna Stumme, Naval Research Laboratory
Additively Manufactured Conformal Arrays

3:45 p.m.
Closing remarks

4:00 p.m.
Adjourn