About the Journal
Journal of Microwave Engineering and Technologies
Journal of Microwave Engineering & Technologies [2349-9001(e)]Â is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal launched in 2014 focused on the rapid publication of fundamental research papers on all areas of Microwave Engineering & Technologies.
Focus & Scope
- Microwave Engineering: Microwave circuits, transmission systems, passive and active microwave components, microwave measurements, microwave propagation, high-frequency system design, and microwave applications.
- Millimeter-Wave Technologies: Millimeter-wave circuits, components, antennas, propagation, sensing, imaging, communication systems, high-frequency device modelling, and mmWave system integration.
- Terahertz Technologies: Terahertz generation, detection, spectroscopy, imaging, plasmonics, communication, THz devices, materials, waveguides, and emerging terahertz applications.
- RF and Microwave Circuits: Low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, frequency multipliers, phase shifters, couplers, dividers, attenuators, and RF front-end circuits.
- Microwave Integrated Circuits and MMICs: Monolithic microwave integrated circuits, hybrid microwave circuits, RFICs, semiconductor-based microwave circuits, device modelling, chip-level integration, and high-frequency IC design.
- Microwave Filters and Resonators: Bandpass, bandstop, low-pass and high-pass filters, dielectric resonators, cavity resonators, microstrip resonators, substrate-integrated waveguide filters, tunable filters, and compact filtering structures.
- Antennas and Antenna Arrays: Microstrip antennas, patch antennas, horn antennas, phased arrays, smart antennas, MIMO antennas, conformal antennas, reconfigurable antennas, broadband antennas, and high-gain antennas.
- 5G, 6G and Beyond Communication: Microwave and millimeter-wave technologies for 5G/6G, massive MIMO, beamforming, beam steering, ultra-dense networks, high-frequency links, integrated sensing and communication, and next-generation wireless systems.
- Radar Engineering: Monostatic and bistatic radar, automotive radar, ground-penetrating radar, weather radar, imaging radar, phased-array radar, Doppler radar, radar signal processing, target detection, and tracking.
- Microwave Photonics: Photonic generation of microwave signals, optical heterodyning, microwave photonic filters, fiber lasers, RF-over-fiber, photonic signal processing, and microwave-optical integration.
- Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: Negative-index materials, left-handed materials, electromagnetic metamaterials, chiral media, metasurfaces, frequency-selective surfaces, artificial media, reconfigurable metasurfaces, and meta-devices.
- Electromagnetic Bandgap and Photonic Bandgap Structures: EBG and PBG structures, fractal EBG, defected ground structures, periodic structures, wave suppression, filtering, antenna enhancement, and integrated electromagnetic structures.
- MEMS and RF MEMS: RF MEMS switches, tunable capacitors, microactuators, micromachined resonators, MEMS-based RF components, microwave microsystems, and miniaturized reconfigurable devices.
- Microwave Semiconductor Devices: Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes, Schottky diodes, HEMTs, MESFETs, GaAs devices, GaN devices, SiGe devices, CMOS RF devices, and emerging high-frequency semiconductor technologies.
- Electromagnetic Modelling and Simulation: Computational electromagnetics, finite-element methods, finite-difference time-domain methods, method of moments, full-wave simulation, electromagnetic optimization, and numerical modelling.
- Waveguides and Transmission Lines: Rectangular and circular waveguides, microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide, substrate-integrated waveguide, transmission-line modelling, impedance matching, and guided-wave systems.
- Microwave Materials and Dielectrics: Dielectric ceramics, ferrites, ferroelectric materials, microwave substrates, composite materials, material characterization, dielectric properties, loss mechanisms, and high-frequency materials.
- Microwave Material Characterization: Permittivity and permeability measurement, dielectric spectroscopy, nondestructive testing, moisture measurement, porosity assessment, material density characterization, and microwave sensing of materials.
- Microwave Sensors and Sensing Systems: Resonator-based sensors, dielectric sensors, biomedical sensing, moisture sensors, industrial sensors, environmental sensing, material sensing, and contactless measurement.
- Microwave Imaging: Medical imaging, security imaging, subsurface imaging, industrial inspection, nondestructive evaluation, tomography, radar imaging, and computational microwave imaging.
- Biomedical and Biological Microwave Applications: Microwave interaction with biological tissues, specific absorption rate, electromagnetic exposure, hyperthermia, biomedical sensing, safety assessment, and therapeutic microwave applications.
- Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference: EMI/EMC analysis, shielding, coupling, electromagnetic susceptibility, interference mitigation, grounding, high-frequency compatibility, and compliance assessment.
- Microwave Measurement and Instrumentation: Vector network analysis, spectrum analysis, power measurement, impedance measurement, S-parameter characterization, calibration techniques, and high-frequency test systems.
- Microwave Energy and Industrial Applications: Microwave heating, dielectric heating, industrial processing, material drying, food processing, plasma generation, curing, and microwave-assisted manufacturing.
- Wireless Power Transfer: Microwave power transmission, rectennas, RF energy harvesting, resonant wireless power transfer, beamforming for power transfer, and far-field energy delivery.
- Microwave Communication Systems: Point-to-point microwave links, satellite communication, backhaul systems, microwave relays, wireless access systems, broadband microwave networks, and link optimization.
- Satellite and Space Microwave Systems: Microwave payloads, satellite antennas, transponders, deep-space communication, remote sensing instruments, spaceborne radar, and high-frequency satellite subsystems.
- Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: Microwave radiometry, synthetic-aperture radar, ground-penetrating radar, atmospheric sensing, soil-moisture monitoring, and microwave-based environmental observations.
- Reconfigurable and Tunable Microwave Systems: Tunable filters, reconfigurable antennas, varactor-based circuits, RF MEMS tuning, ferroelectric tuning, programmable metasurfaces, and adaptive RF architectures.
- AI and Machine Learning in Microwave Engineering: Machine learning for antenna optimization, device modelling, electromagnetic prediction, fault diagnosis, inverse design, surrogate modelling, and intelligent microwave system optimization.
- Emerging Microwave Technologies: Integrated sensing and communication, digital twins for RF systems, chip-scale microwave systems, quantum microwave devices, neuromorphic RF hardware, programmable electromagnetic environments, and next-generation high-frequency technologies.
Keywords
Microwave Engineering, Millimeter-Wave Technology, Terahertz Technology, Microwave Integrated Circuits, Antennas, Radar Systems, Metamaterials, Microwave Photonics, Electromagnetic Simulation, 5G/6G Communication