Dr. Richard Q. Lee is a senior engineer in the Antenna, Microwave, and Optical Systems Branch at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. At present, he is the principal investigator or co-investigator of projects on integrated phased-array antennas and solar cell systems, development of a hybrid ground phased-array prototype based on space-fed lens technology, development of ultrawideband conformal optically transparent antennas, and coupled local oscillators for Ka-band beam-steerable active integrated antennas.

Dr. Lee earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University. At NASA, he has worked to develop printed circuit antennas and phased-array antennas for satellite communications applications. As contract manager, he has contributed to the successful completion of several antenna and array projects, including the development and demonstration of the Ka-band Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) phased array with the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS). Dr. Lee’s other contributions cover a spectrum of fundamental and application studies of microstrip antennas. These include optically transparent printed antennas, cross-polarization characteristics of rectangular patch antennas, coplanar parasitic subarrays, multilayer microstrip antennas, coplanar waveguide feeding techniques, dielectric resonator antennas, and tapered slot antennas. His best known work is the use of parasitic elements to increase the bandwidth and gain of microstrip antennas. He is the author and coauthor of over 140 journal and conference papers, and several book chapters on printed antenna technology. He is also the co-inventor of a patent on optically transparent printed antennas. Dr. Lee came to NASA Glenn in 1980.