IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Special Issue on
Emerging Materials and Processing Technologies for RF/microwave Applications and Wireless Systems

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024

Motivation:

Novel materials, processes and manufacturing technologies have emerged in recent years, which have shown great potential in the development of RF/microwave and wireless systems and applications. Over the last 20 years, there has been a growing interest in RF/microwave materials and fabrication techniques, which enable the creation and innovation of devices, microwave circuits and systems over MHz-through-THz. This Special Issue on Emerging Materials and Processing Technologies for RF/Microwave and Wireless Systems and Applications is to promote this area by providing excellent opportunities for cross-disciplinary researchers and practitioners to share the recent progress on microwave materials and fabrication techniques.

The scope of this T-MTT Special Issue includes emerging RF/microwave materials and fabrication processes, which should present significant potential in advancing future RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, terahertz devices, circuits, and systems. This cross-disciplinary area brings together researchers, scientists, and engineers of different backgrounds to promote and exploit emerging and novel materials, processes, and manufacturing techniques. This also provides opportunities for the MTT-S community to share cross-disciplinary R&D activities and outcomes. Publishable manuscripts may include but not be limited to material engineering, chemical engineering, photonics/optical engineering, mechanical engineering and process engineering.

Proposed Field of Interest:

1. Additive Manufactured (3D printed) Microwave Components and Systems:

• Additive Manufacturing techniques for RF device fabrications, such as fused deposition modelling (FDM), continuous liquid interface production (CLIP), and selective laser sintering (SLS).
• Dielectrics materials for RF circuit designs: Low-loss materials, high dielectric constant materials, phase-changing materials.
• Metallic materials for RF circuit designs: steel, silver, copper, and alloy.
• Multimaterial 3D printing, e.g. dielectric and conductive materials.
• Bioprinting in microwave applications

2. Emerging Fabrication and Processing Techniques for Microwave Applications:

• Subtractive processing: precision CNC for prototyping microwave devices
• Hybrid manufacturing for RF applications: additive and subtractive hybrid processing
• Materials coating techniques for RF components
• Multimaterails fabrication for microwave circuits
• Nano/micro processing techniques for RF/microwave devices and circuits
• Heterogeneous integration and processing techniques

3. Functional RF Materials for Microwave Circuits and Systems:

• Shape-memory materials for RF designs: Shape-memory alloy and shape-memory polymer
• Electromagnetic absorbing materials/magnetic materials
• Phase-tunable materials
• Magnetic materials and multiferroics
• RF materials formulation
• Tunable RF materials stimulation/modeling techniques
• Material training/stimuli strategies: Electrical, heat, light, magnetic waves
• Next generation of semiconductors, including emerging wideband gap and oxide materials
• Characterization of materials for microwave applications

Guest Editors:

A/Prof. Yang Yang
yang.yang-1@uts.edu.au
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Prof. Ke Wu,
ke.wu@polymtl.ca
Polytechnique Montréal, Canada