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We are pleased to present the April 2025 issue of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. The issue features a collection of newly published articles and the Special Issue on Measurement Technologies for Emerging 5G and Beyond Channel Characterization and Antenna Systems, that brings together 28 contributions from leading experts and innovators in the field, highlighting the latest advances in measurement methodologies and antenna design for next-generation wireless technologies. We also invite you to discover the first five episodes of the VOICES interview series. Don’t miss the opportunity to contribute to the two open calls for Special Issue Papers.

Happy reading!

Konstantina S. Nikita

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

Near-Field Measurement of a Fractal Antenna Using Fluorescence Thermography, R. Flor, S. Fauré, J. -F. Bobo and D. Prost

Simultaneous Wireless Powering and Biotelemetry for Biomedical Implants Using 3-D Printable Water-Based Self-Diplexing Antennas, F. Faisal, A. Basir, M. Zada, T. Björninen, M. Chaker and T. Djerafi

Frequency-Tunable Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using a Piezoelectric Bending Actuator, S. -X. Zhang, M. W. K. Lee and K. W. Leung

An Exact Synthesis Procedure for Minimum Quality Factor Spherical Wire Antennas, A. B. Murray and A. K. Iyer

Compact Radiation Pattern Decoupling Design of 2-D MIMO Microstrip Antennas,G. -Y. Liu, N. Yang and K. Wa Leung

A High-Efficiency and Effectiveness Designing Methodology for Discrete-Coded Energy Selective Surface Based on Machine Learning, L. Yao, X. Huang, H. Chen, H. Jiang, Y. Liang and P. Liu

Design of Nth-Order Frequency-Selective Polarization Rotation Reflective Surface Based on Transversal Coupling Topology, P. -P. Zhang, X. -C. Zhu, J. -L. Chen, K. Gong and X. -M. Qing

Design Considerations and Propagation Properties Using an SDN-Controlled RIS for Wireless Backhauling, M. E. Arslan, H. Rezaei, G. Yammine, P. Heusinger, Y. Wu, W. Gerstacker, R. Schober, N. Franke, and N. Neumann

On the Synthesis of Null-Scanning Leaky-Wave Antennas (NSLWAs) for Millimeter-Wave Direction-Finding Applications, D. Zheng, Y. Zhang, G.-B. Wu, Z. H. Jiang, C. H. Chan, K. Wu, and W. Hong

Dual-Band Aperture-Shared Filtering Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Q. Hu, H. Yang, Y. Rao and X. Yin Zhang

Reconstruction of the Lightning Return-Stroke Current From the Radiated Magnetic Field, R. Aramini, M. Brignone, D. Mestriner, R. Procopio, A. Randazzo and M. Rubinstein

A Forward Approach to Establish Parametric Scattering Center Model for Dielectric-PEC Composite Targets, Y. Zhu, S. He, Z. Bian, Y. Zhang, Q. Huang and F. Zhang

Meta-Learning-Assisted Untrained Neural Network for Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems, Q. Huang, C. Li, X. Ye, K. Xu and R. Song

An Efficient Load Balancing Scheme for Parallel p-Adaptive DGTD Method With Local Time Stepping Strategy, Y. C. Liu, Y. Shi, S. C. Zhu, J. H. Zhang, M. Y. Xi, S. P. Li, and P. Wang

A Novel Projection-Based Beam Ray Launching Method for Wireless Channel Modeling, Y. Zhou, C. -X. Wang, S. Yang, Y. Wang, J. Huang and e. -H. M. Aggoune

An Anderson Acceleration Inspired VBIM for Solving the Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems, H. Zhou, Y. Zhao, Y. Wang, D. Han and J. Hu

Superradiant Broadband Magnetoelectric Arrays Empowered by Meta-Learning, A. Mikhailovskaya, K. Grotov, D. Vovchuk, D. Dobrykh, C. Rockstuhl and P. Ginzburg

Plasma-Assisted Checkerboard Metasurface With 55.4 dB Monostatic Radar Cross-Section (RCS) Reduction, J. Jung, C. Cho, J. Ha, S. You, H. Lee, C. Kim, I. Oh, and Y. Lee

A Convolutional Neural Network Based Method for Accurate Computation of Scattered Fields From Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Y. Liu and C. D. Sarris

Interaction Between Switched Oscillator Sources and Their Loading Antennas in Determining System Performance, F. Babaeian, J. Scott Tyo and J. E. Fletcher

Nonvolatile 1-bit Intelligent Reflective Metasurface for RF Wave Manipulation and Control, X. Xiao, Z. Zhang, Y. Li, Y. Mao and Z. Hu

Nonrotationally Symmetric V-Band Geodesic Lens Antenna With Defined Footprint, S. Clendinning, O. Zetterstrom, J. Rico-Fernández, F. Mesa and O. Quevedo-Teruel

Systematic and Accurate Method to Model Dielectric Stratifications in Artificial Dielectric Layers, R. G. Tapia Barroso and D. Cavallo

Wideband Dual-Circularly Polarized Transmit-Reflect-Array Antenna With Energy Allocation Based on Hybrid Metasurface, W. Yang, K. Tang, Y. Zhu, K. Chen, J. Zhao, T. Jiang, and Y. Feng

Wideband Sequential Rotation Dual-Circularly Polarized Magnetoelectric Dipole Array With Polarization Independent Control for Intelligent Vehicle Communications, Z. Sun, X. Lv and Y. Yang

320 GHz InP-Based On-Chip Aperture Antenna With 10.1 dBi Gain by Using Open-Ended SIW Cavity, S.-Y. Tang, J. Chen, X. Xia, S. Zheng, H. Lu, P. Zhou, and W. Hong