Jonathan D. Chisum, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
/A History of Technical Contributions - Commission D
50th Anniversary Plenary Speaker, Thursday, January 11, 2024
Abstract: Commission D: Electronics and Photonics, promotes research and reviews new development in: (a) Electronic devices and applications; (b) Photonic devices and applications; (c) Physics, materials, CAD, technology and reliability of electronic and photonic devices, with particular reference to radio science and telecommunications. The Commission deals with devices for generation, detection, storage and processing of electromagnetic signals together with their applications, covering all frequencies, including those in the microwave and optical domains.
In this talk we will review the community of and technical contributions from Commission D throughout the decades. Major thrusts include the maturation of electronic and photonic devices in Si/SiGe and III-V devices for signal generation and processing, metamaterial and plasmonic structures and optical fiber for the guiding of signals, and system applications including wireless and imaging for commercial and defense, THz and millimeterwave instrumentation for security and planetary and earth sciences, and reconfigurable RF for cognitive radios in spectrum sensing/sharing. In addition, metrology and computer automated design tools will be discussed as supporting the major device, component, and system themes.
Biography: Jonathan Chisum received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Boulder, Colorado USA, in 2011. From 2012 to 2015 he was a Member of Technical Staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in the Wideband Communications and Spectrum Operations groups. His work at Lincoln Laboratory focused on millimeter-wave phased arrays, antennas, and transceiver design for electronic warfare applications. In 2015 he joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame where he is currently as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is the current and immediate past chair for USNC-URSI Commission D. His research interests include millimeter-wave communications and spectrum sensing using novel and engineered materials and devices to dramatically lower the power and cost and enable pervasive deployments. His group focuses on gradient index (GRIN) lenses for low-power millimeter-wave beam-steering antennas, nonlinear lowenergy radio architectures for highly efficient communications and sensing up through millimeter-waves, phase-change materials for reconfigurable RF circuits for wideband distributed circuits and antennas, and microwave/spin-wave structures for low-power and chip-scale analog signal processing for spectrum sensing and protection.
