Introduction to the Winter 2023 Issue

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Welcome to Volume 3 of IEEE JOURNAL OF MICROWAVES! In this issue we combine a complete set of regular contributions with Part 1 of a Microwave Theory and Technology Society 70th Anniversary commemoration, consisting of some twenty-one specially invited papers embodying this major milestone in the history of the organization. Several additional articles, including some major historic overviews, are to be released in our spring issue of JMW which contains Part 2 of this 70th Anniversary celebration. In order to make it possible to bring up all the anniversary issue papers contained in both parts one and two using a single database search, every special issue paper contains the index term: "MTT 70th Anniversary Special Issue." The full set (covering two issues) of 70th anniversary papers can be accessed using a simple parenthesis-delineated search of the five-word phrase. Plans are also in place to combine all the on-line papers into a full-color print issue for distribution upon request. In addition to this very nice collection of quality papers, we celebrate six of our Outstanding Reviewers of 2021 and 2022 and announce our first IEEE JOURNAL OF MICROWAVES Best Paper prize. INDEX TERMS Winter issue, opening editorial, MTT 70th Anniversary Special Issue, outstanding reviewers, reviewer recognition, best paper prize, editorial board. ING, AND ARRAY SYSTEMS & TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS KEN B. COOPER (Senior Member, IEEE) received the A.B. degree in physics from Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2003. Following postdoctoral research in superconducting microwave qubits, he has been an RF Microwave Engineer with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA, since 2006, where he has been recognized with the Lew Allen Award for Excellence, Ed Stone Award for an Outstanding Research Publication, and a Principal designation for the development of active THz sensors, systems, and techniques. His work with JPL has included the development of scanning 340 GHz and 670 GHz imaging radars for concealed object detection, a compact 95 GHz Doppler radar and 270/560 GHz spectrometer for cometary jet observation, and differential absorption radars at 170 GHz and 560 GHz for humidity sounding on Earth and Mars. TC-12 TOPIC EDITOR: MICROWAVE HIGH-POWER TECHNIQUES STEVE C. CRIPPS (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the master's and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., in 1970. After working for several years with the Pioneering Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) Group, Plessey Research, he emigrated USA, where he worked for 15 years in various engineering and management positions with Watkins Johnson, Loral, and Celeritek. In 1996, he returned to the U. K., as an independent consultant before taking on an academic post with Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K., where he is currently a Distinguished Research Professor. He has authored several bestselling books on RFPA design and is a regular contributor to IEEE Microwave Maga...

Introduction to the Spring 2023 Issue

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“…Due to the large number of contributions and the restricted time schedule for input and review of our special issue papers, we were forced to break our MTT 70th Anniversary special issue into two parts. The first part, consisting of 21 papers, appeared in our winter release of IEEE JOURNAL OF MICROWAVES [1]. The second part contained herein, consists of five additional invited manuscripts which are summarized below.…”

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“…In our last issue [1], we introduced our Outstanding Reviewers program and our 2021/2022 honorees. You can also find their names on our new Reviewer Recognition webpage: https://mtt.org/publications/journal-of-microwaves/reviewerrecognition/.…”

Introduction to the Winter 2024 Issue

“…Continuing a tradition we began last January [2], we now present a very special tribute to our Outstanding Reviewers of 2023. This past November, we asked authors and topic editors of papers published in volume 3 of JMW to search through their correspondence and nominate reviews that made a real difference to the quality of a particular manuscript or the ability of an editor to make a decision on the true merits of a submitted paper.…”