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In the November 2024 edition of our newsletter, we share 78 newly published articles and announce the Call for Papers for our upcoming Special Issue titled “Microwave, mm and THz Imaging and Sensing Systems and Technologies for Medical Applications”. We welcome your submissions, with a deadline set for June 2025. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore our expanding collection of Articles Sharing Data and Code on our website, advancing transparency and collaboration through reproducible research.

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Konstantina S. Nikita

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

This Special Issue will gather contributions covering all aspects related to electromagnetic (EM) medical imaging and sensing with the aim of providing a thorough and updated picture on this lively research area, that is paving the way to adoption of EM imaging and sensing technologies in the medical arena. By offering a comprehensive update of research ideas that have translated into practical systems, the Special Issue is expected to be a milestone in the development of these devices.

Guest Editors: Francesca Vipiana, Elise Fear, Yifan Chen, Lorenzo Crocco, Mahta Moghaddam

Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2025

Publication Date: January 2026

The Horizontal Inhomogeneity of the Evaporation Duct Based on Surface Bulk Measurements Over the South China Sea,  vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 7916-7926, Oct.2024, N. Yang, D. Su, L. Sun, T. Lu, D. Song and T. Wang | Access the dataset files

Improved Chebyshev Spectral Method Modeling for Vector Radiative Transfer in Atmospheric Propagation, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 4465-4476, May 2024, Tavanti, D. D. Caviglia and A. Randazzo |

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Near-Perfect Space-Wave to Surface-Wave Coupler Enabled Conformal Space Wave Transporting Metasurfaces, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 2540-2554, March 2024, J. Budhu | Access the dataset files

Three-Dimensional Fully Metallic Dual-Polarization Frequency-Selective Surface Design Using Coupled-Resonator Circuit Information, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 2932-2937, March 2024, I. Parellada-Serrano, M. Pérez-Escribano, C. Molero, P. Padilla and V. d. l. Rubia |

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Determining Aperture Field for Arbitrary Phaseless Far-Field Utilizing Inverse Design Method Based on Spectral Analysis, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 2861-2866, March 2024, C. -S. Chen, R. Wang, J. -P. Liu and B. -Z. Wang | Access the dataset files

Shooting and Bouncing Rays for Sparse Particles (SBR-SP) Applied for Multiple Magnetodielectric Circular Cylinders, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 9776-9787, Dec. 2023, Y. H. Cho, H. Lee, W. J. Byun, B. S. Kim and Y. J. Chong | Access the dataset files

Harmonic-Based MIMO Transceiver With Time-Modulated Arrays, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 7553-7565, Sept. 2023, G. Ni, C. He and R. Jin | Access the dataset files

Scalable 3-D-Printable Antenna Array With Liquid Cooling for 28 GHz, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 5067-5078, June 2023, J. Haarla, J. Ala-Laurinaho and V. Viikari | Access the dataset files

Comparison of Electromagnetic Forces Evaluated in Yee-Lattice Finite-Difference Time-Domain and Lattice-Boltzmann Method, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 12405-12410, Dec. 2022, C. Warner, L. Markley and K. J. Chau | Access the code

Isophoric Inflating Deflating Exploration Algorithm (I-IDEA) for Equal-Amplitude Aperiodic Arrays, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 10405-10416, Nov. 2022,  D. Pinchera, M. D. Migliore and G. Panariello | Access the dataset files

Site-Specific Radio Propagation Model for Macrocell Coverage at Sub-6 GHz Frequencies, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 9706-9715, Oct. 2022, N. R. Leonor, S. Faria, G. Ramos, P. V. Gonzalez Castellanos, C. Rodríguez, L. da Silva Mello, and R. F. S. Caldeirinha | Access the dataset files

mm-Wave Chipless RFID Decoding: Introducing Image-Based Deep Learning Techniques, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 3700-3709, May 2022, L. M. Arjomandi, G. Khadka and N. C. Karmakar | Access the dataset files

Investigation on Homogenization of Flat and Conformal Stacked Dielectric Resonator Antennas, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1482-1487, Feb. 2022, M. Boyuan, J. Pan, D. Yang and Y. -X. Guo | Access the dataset files

A Wideband Miniaturized Dual-Polarized Antenna Based on Wide-Arm Dipole With Mode Analysis and Recombination, Y. Lei, H. Zhai, H. Zhang and X. Cui

Generalized Deterministic Automated Design of Metasurface Antennas With 3-D Feeding Structures, L. Teodorani, M. Zucchi and G. Vecchi

Shared Aperture Wideband Endfire/Broadside mm-Wave Phased Array With Enhanced Scanning Range Integrated With Metal Frame for Mobile Terminals, X. Tian and Z. Du

Shortwave Ultrahigh-Sensitivity Rydberg Atomic Electric Field Sensing Based on a Subminiature Resonator, R. Mao, Y. Lin, A. Zhou, K. Yang and Y. Fu

A Novel Near-Field Calibration Method for Linear Array Based on Plane Wave Expansion, Y. Tang, Z. Wang, W. Fan, X. Chen, T.-H. Loh, Z. Luo, and S. Gao

Subarray Implementation via Phase Compensation in Circularly Polarized Arrays, X. Yang, P. Wu, Y. Zhao, B. Wang, Z. Nie and D. Yang

Dual-Polarized Crossed-Dipole Base Station Antenna Array With High-Isolation and Wide-Angle Scanning, Y. Xu, R. Li, Z. -X. Liu, Y. Hu, C. Wang and Y. Liu

Blazed 3-D Cells With Application to Full-Metal Dichroic Mirrors, C. Stoumpos, L. Polo-López, H. Legay, T. Pierré and M. García-Vigueras

Series Dual-Fed Continuous Transverse Stub Array With Enhanced Multibeam Operation Enabled by a Reflective Luneburg Lens, C. Bilitos, X. Morvan, R. Sauleau, E. Martini, S. Maci and D. González-Ovejero

Exploring the Potential of a Coaxial Unit Cell: Metalens Antenna Design Based on a Highly Isotropic Metallic Periodic Structure, D. Tomić, J. -M. Poyanco, E. Rajo-Iglesias and Z. Šipuš

Cross-Correlated Subspace-Based Optimization Method for Solving Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems, M. Wang, S. Sun, D. Dai, Y. Zhang and Y. Su

A Machine-Learning-Assisted Localization and Magnetic Field Forming for Wireless Powering of Biomedical Implant Devices, V. K. Srivastava, A. Ahmad and A. Sharma

An Enhanced Diffractive Neural Network for Metasurface Holograms With High Resolution, Low Noise, and Uniform Intensity, M. Qu, K. Zhang, J. Su, Y. Li, L. Deng and X. Li

Focusing-Based Newton Solution for Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems, E. Üregen and A. Yapar

Macro Basis Function Methods With Multilevel DCA Acceleration for Antenna Array Analysis, K. Sewraj and M. M. Botha

Efficient and Accurate Simulations of Metamaterials Based on Domain Decomposition and Unit Feature Database, M. Jiang, W. J. Ran, J. W. Wu, X. Yang, Y. Li, R. Y. Wu, Q. Cheng, J. Hu, and T. J. Cui

Inversions of the Evaporation Duct Heights Utilizing Opportunistic Signals of Navigation Radar, F. Yang, K. Yang, Y. Shi, S. Wang and Y. Shu

TD-EFIE Method-of-Moments Solution Using the Numerical Inversion of the Laplace Transform With Time-Stepping Re-Initialization, G. Iwasa, E. Gad and D. A. McNamara

Fully Polarimetric Calibration of a Near-Field MIMO Imaging Radar Using the QCCLD Reflector, T. Liu, X. He, J. Shan, K. Yang, J. Xie and X. Xu

Noninterleaved Completely Helicity-Modulated Cascaded Metasurface Empowering Full-Space Energy-Controllable Arbitrary Wavefront Manipulation, Z. Chu, X. Cai, T. Li, H. Sun, Y. Han, R. Zhu, T. Liu, Y. Jia, S. Sui, and J. Wang

A Model-Chain to Generate Q-/V-Band Attenuation Time Series From Short-Term Numerical Weather Predictions at Continental Scale, M. Biscarini, R. Nebuloni, L. Dossi, S. Di Fabio, P. Scaccia, T. Cherubini, C. Riva, and L. Luini

Accurate Estimation of the Lateral Wave’s Contribution to the Radiated Fields of a Vertical Electric Dipole Embedded in a Lossy Half-Space, H. Belaid, S. Mostarshedi, B. Poussot and J. -M. Laheurte

Reflection, Transmission and Diffraction by Lossless Anisotropic Chiral Sheets, G. Riccio, F. Ferrara, G. Gennarelli, R. Guerriero and F. Chiadini

A Novel Fully-Connected Beamforming Network Architecture With the QR Factorization Synthesis Method, L. Sun, J. -Y. Gu, Y. -M. Wan and S. -G. Zhou

Dynamic Range Improvements for Beacon Receivers Using Noise Power Measurements, É. Suquet, L. Castanet, L. Féral, H. Bourgoin and X. Boulanger

Design of High-Isolation Topological Duplexer Utilizing Dual-Edge State Topological Waveguides, H. Wang, H. Shi, W. E. I. Sha, Z. Lan, F. Gao, X. Chen, and A. Zhang

Dual-Band Polarization Conversion Metasurface-Assisted Compact High-Efficiency RFID Reader Antenna Design, X. Wang, Z. Xing, Z. Zhao, J. Li and Q. Yu

Millimeter-Wave Wideband, High-Gain, Dual-Polarized Filtering Patch Antenna With Y-Shaped Probe and Shorted C-Shaped Strip, Y. Sun, H. -T. Hu and C. Hou Chan

A Vertical Polarized Endfire Phased Array Antenna With Wide-Angle Scanning Using Heterogeneous Beam Elements, L. Li, S. Liao, Y. Wan, J. Wei, X. Ren, W. Che, and Q. Xue

Wideband Full-Metal Cavity-Backed Filtering Slot Antenna Based on Resonant-Iris Mode, R.-S. Chen, Z.-C. Liao, P.-F. Qin, Z.-Y. Pang, S.-W. Wong, Q. Shao, M. K. T. Al-Nuaimi, F.-C. Chen, and G.-L. Huang

A Dual-Band Leaky Wave Antenna With Dual-Bi-Directional Continuous Beam Scanning for Large Space Radiation Coverage, Z. Wu, Y. Su, X. Qi Lin, X. Liang, Y. Fan and D. Zheng