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We are pleased to share the latest edition of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation newsletter, featuring the launch of an exclusive collection of invited review articles. This special collection commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Antennas and Propagation Society—celebrating decades of innovation, excellence, and lasting impact in the field. The first two articles in the collection are now available and are being offered as open access through the end of June.

In this issue, you’ll also find the latest TAP Featured Articles and 71 newly published papers from the May issue of the journal. We would like to acknowledge the outstanding reviewers of 2024, whose dedication and expertise have played an important role in upholding the quality and integrity of our publications.

Finally, don’t miss the opportunity to contribute to our two open Calls for Special Issue Papers—both accepting submissions until 30 June 2025.

Happy reading!

Konstantina S. Nikita

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

In celebration of the Antennas and Propagation Society’s 75th Anniversary, we are pleased to announce the launch of an expanding special article collection of review papers aiming to highlight transformative technologies and spotlight their future potential within the realm of antennas and propagation.

The first two articles in the Special Article Collection are now available and are being offered as open access through the end of June. We invite you to explore these timely contributions and stay tuned as the collection continues to grow throughout the year.

Discover the articles below.

Additively Manufactured FHE-Enabled Antennas and Reconfigurable/Phased Antenna Arrays for Communications, Sensing, and Energy Harvesting,  Hani Al Jamal, Theodore W. Callis, Aline Eid, Kexin Hu, Genaro Soto-Valle, Marvin Joshi, Jimmy G.D. Hester, Manos M. Tentzeris

Antenna Technologies for 6G – Advances and Challenges, Y. Jay Guo, Charles A. Guo, Ming Li, Matti Latva-aho

Dual Circularly Polarized Metasurface Antenna Based on Inward and Outward Surface Wave Duplexing, R. Thanikonda, M. Faenzi, A. Toccafondi, E. Martini and S. Maci

Near-Field Synthesis of 1-D Shaped Patterns Through Spectral Factorization and Minimally-Redundant Array-Like Representations, G. Maria Battaglia, T. Isernia, R. Palmeri, M. Antonia Maisto, R. Solimene and A. Francesco Morabito

Dual-Band Omnidirectional Scanning Array Using Liquid Metal-Enabled Reflection-Type Phase Shifters, Y. -W. Wu, T. Cole, K. Jiang, Y. Huang and Y. Wang

Millimeter-Wave Active Beam-Tilted Phased Array Modules and Seamless Integration Design With Ultrawideband Sub-6 GHz Antenna for Future V2X Applications, K. Chen, J. Xu, S. -Y. Tang, Y. Wang and W. Hong

Wide-Angle Direction Finding With a Spatially Dispersive Reconfigurable Leaky Wave Antenna, M. Behdani and S. V. Hum

TE–TM Balanced Wide-Angle Metacells for Low Scan-Loss Metalens Antenna Using Prior Knowledge-Guided Generative Deep Learning-Enabled Method, Y. Lyu, T. H. Gan and Z. N. Chen

Low-Cost Conformal Transmit-Reflect-Array Antenna for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Relay Communications, Z. -H. Fu, X. -S. Yang and B. -Z. Wang

Dual Circularly Polarized Folded Transmitarray in X-Band, M. Wang, K. Sun, G. -B. Wu and C. H. Chan

Experimental Demonstration of Flying UAV Swarm-Based Reconfigurable Yagi–Uda Antennas, J. Diao, B. Debnath, M. M. Begum, B. E. Molen and R. Subedi

Low-Scattering Broadband Phased Array With Polarization-Selective Metasurface Using Characteristic Mode Analysis, Y. Qi, F. Yang, K. Chen, Y. Chen, J. Hu and S. Yang

Microwave Imaging With Circular Arrays: Comparative Analysis Between OAM and MIMO, A. Veneri, P. Burghignoli and D. Comite

An Analytical Model for the Contribution of Small Scatterers to Open-Ended Coaxial Probe Measurements, R. Gal-Katzir, E. Porter and Y. Mazor

A Super-Resolution Imaging Method Based on a Left-Handed Material and a Diffusion Model, Q. Zhang, C. Yin and A. Li

Electromagnetic Design Method of Radomes Under High-Temperature Environment, L. Yang, Y. Li, Q. Chen, D. Zhang, Q. Fei and J. Liu

Polarizability Tensors From Characteristic Modes, A. C. Escobar, J. D. Baena and L. Jelinek

Time-Domain Topology Optimization of Power Dissipation in Dispersive Dielectric and Plasmonic Nanostructures, J. Gedeon, I. Allayarov, A. Calà Lesina and E. Hassan

Convolutional CFS-PML for the 2-D Crank–Nicolson FDTD Scheme and Its Application in Simulation of Ultralow Frequency Electromagnetic Problems, M. Roohie and A. Rezaei-Zare

Shaped Beam Directivity Maximization With Mainlobe Ripple Loss and Dynamic Range Ratio Constraints, H. Zeng, Z. Xu, L. Wang, W. Dong and S. Xiao

Toward the Development of a 3-D SBP-SAT FDTD Method: Subgridding Implementation, H. Liu, Y. Wang, L. Deng, G. Chen, A. Chen, Z. Chen, and S. Yang

A Broadband Multipole Method for Accelerated Mutual Coupling Analysis of Large Irregular Arrays Including Rotated Antennas, Q. Gueuning, E. de Lera Acedo, A. Keith Brown, C. Craeye and O. O’Hara

Electric Dipole-Magnetic Quadrupole Resonant Coupling for Broadband Operating Metasurfaces, J. A. P. Ribeiro, J. J. Hernández-Sarria, L. A. M. Pereira, A. C. Sodré Jr., O. N. Oliveira Jr., L. L. Mendes, and J. R. Mejía-Salazar

Microwave Imaging of Small Scatterers: Linking and Comparing the Beam-Forming and the Orthogonality Sampling Method, A. Cuccaro, A. Dell’Aversano, M. A. Maisto, G. Leone and R. Solimene

Multiple-Frequency-Band Channel Characterization for In-Vehicle Wireless Networks, M. Li, Y. Li, Q. Zeng, K. Olesen, F. Zhang and W. Fan

Potential of UWB Radar Systems in Monitoring Liver Ablation: A Phantom Model Study, J. Kollar, M. Novak, M. Babak, T. Drizdal, J. Vrba, D. Vrba, T. Pokorny, Z. Linha, and O. Fiser

Complex-Source Beam Diffraction by an Impedance Wedge: Exact and Uniform Asymptotic Solutions, and a Phenomenological Study, M. Katsav and E. Heyman

On the Improvement of the Performance of Inexpensive Electromagnetic Skins by Means of an Inverse Source Design Approach, G. Oliveri, F. Zardi and A. Massa

Fast SCFBP Algorithm for GPR-SAR Imaging Integrated With Underground Medium Permittivity Inversion, S. Zhou, M. Shi, M. Bao, Z. Wang, M. Xing and P. Wen

A Low-Profile Implantable Antenna for Heart Implants,A. Alghamdi, A. Basir, A. Iqbal, R. B. V. B. Simorangkir and I. Ben Mabrouk

An Optimized Phase-Controlled Metasurface-Based Low-Profile Folded Transmitarray (FTA) Antenna, S. Chatterjee, Y. Gupta, A. Maulik and S. Bhattacharyya

An Efficient Analysis Method for Artificial Dielectric Layers With Vertical Metal Inclusions Based on a Full-Wave Spectral-Domain Approach, A. J. van Katwijk, A. Neto and D. Cavallo

Simultaneous Gain and Bandwidth Enhancement of an AMC-Backed Antenna-on-Chip Through Magnetic Coupling Structures, Y. Yu and A. Shamim

All-Metal Low-Profile Dual-Polarized Phased Array With 3:1 Bandwidth, Y. Hu, Y. Lu, K. Wang, N. Yan, Q. You and J. Huang