T-MTT Subject Areas

T-MTT subject areas

  1. EM Theory and Analysis Techniques
  2. AI-Enabled Microwave Techniques
  3. Devices and Modeling
  4. Passive Components, Circuits, and Electromagnetic Structures
  5. Integrated RF, Microwave, and Millimeter-Wave Circuits
  6. Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques
  7. Microwave Systems and Applications
  8. Microwave Photonics and RF–Photonic Systems
  9. Other Emerging Topics

 

Description of Subject Areas

  1. EM Theory and Analysis Techniques

Research on electromagnetic theory, linear and nonlinear analysis, analytical and numerical techniques, computational electromagnetics, multiphysics modeling, optimization, inverse problems, and simulation methods for RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz structures and systems. Contributions should advance the theoretical foundations, physical understanding, or analysis methodologies of microwave engineering.

 

  1. AI-Enabled Microwave Techniques

Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques that advance microwave engineering, including AI-assisted modeling, design automation, optimization, surrogate modeling, inverse design, digital twins, measurement, diagnosis, and intelligent microwave systems. Contributions should demonstrate clear and substantive advances over established analytical, numerical, or conventional design and optimization methods, with measurable benefits in performance, accuracy, efficiency, robustness, interpretability, or design insight. The use of AI should be problem-driven and physically meaningful and should advance microwave theory, techniques, devices, circuits, or systems rather than primarily contributing to AI methodology.

 

  1. Devices and Modeling

Microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz active devices, device technologies, modeling, characterization, and design methodologies. Topics include semiconductor devices, vacuum electronic devices, MEMS, ferroelectric and quantum devices, nonlinear and compact models, behavioral modeling, active device characterization, power device technologies, beam-wave interaction, electron guns, traveling-wave tubes, klystrons, gyrotrons, magnetrons, and related high-power microwave devices. Contributions should advance device technologies, physical understanding, modeling, characterization, or design methodologies relevant to microwave engineering.

 

  1. Passive Components, Circuits, and Electromagnetic Structures

Passive microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz circuits, components, and engineered electromagnetic structures, including filters, multiplexers, couplers, power dividers/combiners, resonators, impedance transformers, transitions, waveguides, substrate integrated waveguides (SIW), transmission lines, antennas integrated with microwave circuits, metamaterials, metasurfaces, electromagnetic metastructures, and related passive structures. Contributions should emphasize microwave theory, synthesis, analysis, design methodologies, physical mechanisms, and experimental validation.

 

  1. Integrated RF, Microwave, and Millimeter-Wave Circuits

Integrated RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave circuits and subsystems implemented in hybrid, monolithic, silicon, III-V, SiGe, CMOS, and heterogeneous integration technologies. Topics include integrated power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, frequency converters, switches, phase shifters, transmitters, receivers, transceivers, front-end modules, RF systems-on-chip (SoCs), systems-in-package (SiPs), chiplets, heterogeneous integration, co-design of circuits, interconnects and advanced packaging, and other highly integrated RF and millimeter-wave technologies. Contributions should advance integrated circuit and subsystem design, implementation, co-design, or integration technologies relevant to microwave engineering.

 

  1. Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques

Microwave measurement science, instrumentation, calibration, metrology, material characterization, sensors, microwave imaging, and novel measurement methodologies. Contributions should introduce new measurement techniques, instrumentation, calibration methods, characterization approaches, or experimental methodologies that advance microwave engineering.

 

  1. Microwave Systems and Applications

Microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz systems for communications, sensing, radar, biomedical applications, wireless power transfer and RF energy harvesting, satellite and space communications, spaceborne and airborne microwave systems, remote sensing, navigation, aerospace, automotive, and other emerging applications. Topics include system architectures, linearization and digital predistortion (DPD), transmitter and receiver technologies, beamforming, waveform generation, and system-level microwave innovations. Contributions should demonstrate substantive advances in microwave engineering through innovations in circuits, architectures, signal generation, propagation and channel characterization, measurement, sensing, or system design and implementation. Contributions involving substantial digital signal processing or signal-processing algorithm development should demonstrate microwave engineering advances beyond the algorithmic aspects of the work.

 

  1. Microwave Photonics and RF–Photonic Systems

Theory, modeling, design, and implementation of photonic techniques, circuits, and systems that enable or significantly advance microwave and millimeter-wave signal generation, distribution, processing, measurement, sensing, radar, and communication systems. Contributions should emphasize substantive advances in microwave engineering rather than photonic device technology or signal-processing methodology alone.

 

  1. Other Emerging Topics

Emerging areas that advance microwave science and engineering but are not fully represented by the categories above, including advanced materials and microwave–material interactions, additive and advanced manufacturing technologies, quantum microwave technologies, programmable and reconfigurable RF systems, novel computational methods, and interdisciplinary technologies with a strong microwave engineering foundation. Contributions should demonstrate substantive advances in microwave theory, techniques, devices, circuits, measurement, or systems.