The March issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out! This issue has a great set of features and a terrific set of columns. This issue features research from women in microwaves. Check out the Editor’s Desk column for the best overview of this issue but for now we will have this summary.

What have the women in microwaves been up to? They have been designing filters, biosensors, sensors for power amplifiers, comparing amplifier design techniques and improving Doherty amplifiers. Our Guest Editor’s Desk column will give you the details of these feature articles. Just to spark your interest let’s have a short tour now. Our filter design feature takes us into filter networks that signals only flow in one direction. Biometrics have been a growing application area for microwaves and our this feature article gives us a tour of how biological cells have a rich frequency dependent dielectric spectrum which is great for diagnostics. Sensors are also useful for power amplifiers. Another feature article takes us through the designs and uses of power and reflection sensors in power amplifiers. Doherty amplifiers have gotten more and more sophisticated over time. We have a feature article that teaches us about improvements in extending the efficiency range of Doherty amplifiers. And finally we have a review of the Doherty amplifier architecture versus classic amplifier modes such as AB.

The columns in our magazine give us a monthly tour of what is happening in our world plus a few things to think about. We are all seeing the impact of AI on our world and our President’s Column takes a look at how it will affect the next generation of microwave engineers. We like to keep up with what our technical committees are doing. In this month’s MTT-S Society News checks in with TC-17 for a review of materials, processing, and a ChatGPT generated image. We also get to learn about our Young Professionals work at the Benelux chapter. Our long association with the AP society has a new joint chapter at Bhubaneswar and you can learn about it in our MGA News column. Students are the life’s blood of our organization and this month’s Around the Globe covers what happened at our IEEE Day at the student branch at Varanasi. Careers eat up a lot of time and impact our families. No one feels this more than women so understandably our Women in Microwaves column covers discussions at EuCAP 2025 on how to improve the work-life balance. Finally our Young Professionals column covers YP and Women in Microwaves events at the 2025 European Microwave Week.

I like to start off the thinking columns with MicroBusiness. This month our MicroBusiness column examines the digital evolution and the health changes it has brought to our social world. And speaking of health, our Health Matters column digs deep to keep us informed on the impact of microwaves on health and this month it looks at what the various systemic reviews by the World Health Organization are giving us to think about. Our Speaker’s Corner column originated as a place to expand our thoughts. This month you can learn about microwaves remote sensing and climate change. Finally, resistive networks form a large part of our signal manipulation and this month’s Enigmas, etc. considers the kQ of the resistive Pi network.

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Summary by Alfy Riddle, P.h.D
Quanergy Solutions, Inc.