Introduction to the Summer 2023 Issue

Abstract

Our summer issue of IEEE Journal of Microwaves opens with our new series Making Waves which is intended to stimulate discussion and encourage further submissions in a specific field. We begin the series with a focus on Microwaves in Climate Change and include in this issue two other articles already received on this very relevant topic. Also in this issue is an invited paper on Terahertz sources and receivers that was originally intended for the 70th anniversary issue, but which was delayed. Our regular papers cover a broad range of interesting topics from THz monitoring of insects to near field microwave microscopy. We include two radar papers, an article on mitigating interference in wireless systems, 100 GHz wafer probing techniques, a broad-band waveguide feedthrough design also in W-band, several transmission line and filter papers, and a modal analysis article. Our performance statistics continue to improve with a tripling of our usage numbers in April 2023 from the same month in our two prior years. Our usage numbers now top 372,000 and we now sit at #3 out of 233 IEEE journals for usage per article published. Our special MTT 70th Anniversary issue has been compiled and printed in a 543 page full color hand-out. If you are interested in receiving a free copy request one through our journal home page.

Keywords

• Summer issue
• opening editorial
• making waves
• microwaves
• climate change