Magazine

 

The Magazine is intended to provide several services to MTT-S members, including:  the dissemination of timely information from the various MTT Committees; the publication of regular columns giving insight into a range of technical and non-technical interests and the publication of technical features that provide overviews and tutorials on the state-of-the-art in a given area.

News

Upcoming Focused Issues:

• August 2011 Demystfiying Signal and Power Integrity (or the art of high speed design) (MTT-9)

This special issue will include articles by some of the best signal and power integrity experts worldwide. The issue will discuss the principles and basics of signal and power integrity as well as advanced concepts using state-of-the-art techniques. Papers will cover a variety of topics, including an introduction to the principles of signal integrity, where problems hide, and how to understand them. Other papers will offer some important hints in designing digital systems at high speed; the issues of power distribution systems, which are essential parts of all high-speed designs; the problems of interconnects in high-speed systems and the importance of modeling and simulating these parts; and different methods to measure the effects of signal integrity and the necessary measurement techniques.

• October 2011 “Microwave Filter Synthesis Techniques”

With the explosive growth of wireless and space communications a great deal of research has been devoted to the development of technologies that allow efficient utilization of the frequency spectrum.  Microwave filter synthesis is among the areas that received an increasing emphasis from academia and industrial research organizations. Classical circuit synthesis techniques evolved to be applied to microwave filters.  This focused issue will present papers by prominent researchers on modern microwave filters and multiplexers synthesis techniques. They will highlight the evolution of the classical analytical methods developed for lumped element filter synthesis to using optimization and electromagnetic simulations to design filters that meet extremely challenging demands.  They will also present the limitations of the classical circuit synthesis methods at microwave  frequencies, and how to overcome these limitations.

• December 2011 “Microwave Nanopackaging and Interconnects”

It is a matter of fact that, as interconnect feature sizes shrink, resistivity of metal based interconnect increases. This is due to surface and grain boundary scatterings, while at increasing frequency the surface roughness becomes an additional source of losses. Furthermore, due to the rapid increases in current densities, wires, especially power and ground lines, are becoming more and more vulnerable to electro-migration. Future RF advanced packaging applications require new materials endowed of low electrical resistance, high reliability, chip-to-package interconnects, improved thermal management; moreover, packaging polymers with improved mechanical properties are requested. In the last decade, several achievements reached in micro and nanofabrication have triggered the proliferation of nanotechnologies into several areas, including packaging and interconnects.  The aim of this issue is to i) focus the potentialities and the challenges offered by using a novel generation of interconnects, grown and assembled at nano-scale, ii) provide insight and design criteria with specific regard toward microwave and millimeter wave applications.

• February 2012 "RF Transceivers"
  

Microwave Magazine Timeline

• 2000 Microwave Magazine debut issue
• 2000-2002 Editors:  Robert Trew and Mike Golio
• 2003-2005 Editor:  Madhu Gupta
• 2005-2008 Editor:  Mike Golio
• 2006- Publication frequency increased from four to six issues per year
• 2009-2011 Editor:  Kate Remley
• 2009 Introduction of seventh issue:  IMS Special Issue
• 2009 Radio and Wireless Week Supplement mailed with December issue
• 2010 New Microwave Magazine Logo unveiled!

Typical Issue Contents

A typical issue of the Magazine includes:

• feature articles
• application notes
• a number of departments written by regular columnists as well as contributors
• news of the IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society activities and its administrative committee (Adcom)
• letters to the Editor from Magazine readers and MTT Society members
• a calendar of conference and meetings
• review of books, software and new products

and other items of interest to the microwave community. In addition, it carries advertising and paid announcement materials governed by the IEEE policies.

Departments and Columns

The various departments and columns that appear regularly or occasionally include the following:

• Editorial and Guest Editorial
• Health Effects
• Microwave Surfing
• Application Notes
• Microwave Bytes
• New Products
• Conference Calendar
• Book/Software Reviews
• Microwave Musings
• Letters to the Editor

In addition, MTT Society news is carried in a number of columns such as the following:

• MTT Society and AdCom News
• President's Column
• Around the Globe - Report from the Membership and Geographical Activities Committee
• Chapter News
• TCC Tidbits
• Education News
• MTT-S Ombudsman
• MTT World

Contact Information

Editorial Contacts

Editor-in-chief

Kate Remley
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Indexing

Articles appearing in the Magazine are indexed in IEEE Xplore and in other abstracting and indexing services. Readers can access an annual index of the Magazine's articles in the December issue of each year.

Subscription Information

A subscription to IEEE Microwave Magazine is included with membership dues in the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. Individual copies are available to IEEE members for US $10.00 (first copy only); non-members pay US $20.00 per copy. Subscription rates are available upon request from the IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA. Telephone: +1-732-981-0060, Fax: +1-800-678-4333, Web: http://shop.ieee.org/store/HelpDesk/subscribe/pricelist.asp

Permissions

Permission for reproducing material published in the Magazine should be directed to:
Jacqueline Hansson
IEEE Intellectual Property Rights Coordinator
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Advertising

Inquiries in this regard should be addressed to:
Susan E. Schneiderman
Business Development Manager
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Past Issues

All past issues are electronically accessible through IEEE Xplore. The table of contents can be viewed free of charge; access to full text of articles requires IEEE Xplore availability.

Guidelines for Authors

The Magazine invites contributions from potential authors, including feature articles, application notes, contributed columns, letters to the Editor and other items of potential interest to the readership. Articles prepared for IEEE Microwave Magazine should fall under the IEEE MTT-S field of interest. Authors please read the following guidelines.

Guidelines for Contributions to the Departments/Columns

Ideas for new columns of interest to MTT-S members are always welcome!  Please contact the Editor-in-Chief for any discussion regarding a proposed or submitted column.

Developing a Manuscript for IEEE Microwave Magazine

IEEE Microwave Magazine is a publication of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society that focuses on publication of general interest overview, tutorial, and survey papers rather than new research. Technical features include overviews and surveys should present a balanced picture of the state-of-the art, rather than focusing on the research from your lab or company only.

The primary goal of an Applications Note should be to describe how to accomplish an engineering task. This task might involve hardware implementation, characterization, use of CAD tools, modeling, manufacturing, evaluation, etc.  In order to explain how to accomplish an engineering task, the article might need to explain some of the theory behind the technique -- but theory should not be the focus of the article.

Good magazine articles differ from technical journal articles in several ways. Articles should be of interest to a broad audience and understandable by non-experts in the field. Equations should be used sparingly. Qualitative descriptions or graphs are preferred tools for explaining relationships. When mathematical development is used, it is often useful to include it in separate sidebars that will be published with the article and can be referred to in the main text. The use of diagrams or illustrations to explain qualitative concepts is encouraged. Full color illustrations are also encouraged.

The language of the article can be less formal than that desired for our journals. Liberal use of headings and subheadings that may include "catchy" phrases or questions are appropriate. A reader should be able to get a good impression of what the article contains by briefly examining the figures and headings/subheadings of the article. While the article should not be a commercial for your organization, it can present results from your labs and photos & descriptions of your products and strategies as long as it is in the context of the larger body of work that exists.

All technical articles must undergo peer review before being accepted. Some articles require multiple review/revision cycles prior to acceptance for publication. A manuscript that will appear in the December issue of the magazine needs to be submitted by mid June to provide enough time for review, revision, acceptance and production.

The magazine has won two international awards for technical art from the Society for Technical Communication.  It is published 7 times per year and distributed to over 13,000 members worldwide.  The 2008 impact factor for IEEE Microwave Magazine is ~ 1.5, higher than some IEEE Transactions.

Article preparation guidelines

What is an overview or survey article?

Overviews and surveys provide a description of the state-of-the art, rather than an overview or survey of the research from one research group or company (for example, yours!). You may present your research in the context of an overview of the topic area, but the article should provide a general overview of the topic area.

Is it all right to use figures from prior publications?

Previously published figures can be used as long as they are referenced. If the figures are from a non-IEEE source, written permission must be obtained from the copyright holder allowing the IEEE to republish them. We can help you with this.

How many pages for a feature article?

Each issue of the magazine consists of approximately 55 pages of technical content.  Issues with as many as 45 pages of technical content are not a problem. Technical content includes all feature articles as well as an occasional application note. Application Notes tend to run two or three pages but can run as high as 5. The number of feature articles varies from 3 to 5, depending on the issue. Authors are encouraged to limit their manuscript to 6 pages, including figures and graphs.

What is one magazine page?

Because the magazine uses either 1-column or 2-column format for features along with large headings and at least one graphic on the first page, the first page of a feature runs only about 200 words.  It can be slightly less if it includes additional graphs or tables. The second page and all following pages of a regular column can contain about 800 words each (if no graphs or tables are included).

An average 5 page feature article translates into a ~5000 word document (if no figures and tables were included).

How many figures/tables in a feature article?

Feature articles Tables and figures subtract from the word estimates discussed above. Features typically include 1 or 2 figures/tables per printed page. Authors of magazine features are encouraged to use full color figures generously to explain concepts. Figure captions should be detailed enough that a reader can understand the article - and hopefully be drawn into reading it - just by looking at the figures.

How many words will a figure/table displace?

Figures and tables vary quite a bit in size. The smallest figure displaces about 80 words, the largest displaces about 400 words. The size of the figure/table on the final page will be chosen to make it most readable. On average, the ratio of figures/text for a feature article is about 1-to-2 (that is, figures and tables comprise approximately 1/3 of the final printed page. Some features have fewer figures (1:3 ratio of figures to text) and some features have a figures to text ratio as high as 3:2.

Microwave Magazine does not use a submission template.  Authors are encouraged to prepare their manuscripts using a single column format with double spacing.  This makes reading and commenting easy for the reviewers.

Summary

Typical feature article:

5 pages

~3500 words  (vary from ~3000 to ~5000)

~8 figures or tables (vary from 7 to 15)