The May issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out! This is our IMS2025 special issue and it is full of information on our symposium in San Francisco as well as feature articles. We have a handful of regular columns, four features, an application note and twenty eight columns describing all about our upcoming symposium.

This issue has a twist, both the IMS2025 General Chair’s column and the President’s Column discuss the International Microwave Symposium (IMS). If you want to start with all the low-down on the IMS2025 then check out the ‘Welcome to the Wireless Golden Gateway’ column and ‘The IMS2025 Technical Program’ columns. Our regular columns begin with the President’s Column and we will cover that soon.

We have a fun lineup of features. This month we discuss passive elements, the fundamentals of oscillators and improvements in sensors. Our passive feature discusses how to design bias networks in millimeter-wave ICs. Our fundamentals of oscillators feature is something anyone involved in improving oscillators or understanding the principles of oscillator design will enjoy. And then there are sensors. Our microwave life gets more and more involved with sensors and communicating their information. Super-regenerative oscillator sensors have improved the sensitivity in health care applications and considerations of the problem of loss in our networks is the study of our second sensor feature. Our application note is similar to a feature article but more applied and this month we tackle how crosstalk affects clock source jitter.

We won’t go through all the 28 IMS2025 columns here but we will encourage you to take a look at them as you prepare for IMS2025. We will take a quick tour of the regular columns. The President’s Column celebrates the experience of an IMS. Please join us. Our Society News column is calling for nominations of awards. And our Women in Microwaves celebrates moments with some of our women leaders in this field. On the cerebral side our MicroBusiness column takes on how life has changed for the IEEE and the MTT society as well as how industrial and academic participation has changed over our history. There are many ways to surf and our Microwave Surfing column ponders beauty, truth, the equations of physics and if there might be a universal law. Finally, our Enigmas, etc. column asks what is the shape of the Q=1 curve on the Smith Chart. Those familiar with matching impedances on a Smith Chart will recall how useful constant Q lines on the Smith Chart are in designing matching networks.

Don’t forget to check out the Conference Calendar and please join us in San Francisco. It will be a time of learning, friends and opportunity.

Summary by
Alfy Riddle, Ph.D.
Quanergy Solutions, Inc.