April 28, 2017 • Open Forum
Array antennas have great promise for increasing the capacity of wireless communication systems, but have been little used in commercial applications. I review the history of array antennas, their promise and why it has been hard to get infrastructure vendors to use them. In particular, I will examine the auguries and try to predict if arrays will be used below 6 GHz, or will be mainly used at millimeter wave frequencies.
Gregory Wright received a bachelor's. degree in physics from Harvard University, an M.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He did postdoctoral studies at
Bell Labs in millimeter wave astronomy and was a co-investigator on the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO), the first permanent astronomical observatory at the south pole. He was a researcher at Bell Labs from 1994 until 2001, after which he co-founded startups in network performance measurement and RFID systems. He joined Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) Bell Labs in 2010 where he has worked on new approaches to higher capacity and more energy efficient radios