IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Announces a Special Issue on “Antennas and Propagation at mm- and sub mm-waves”

Millimeter and sub-millimeter waves have been the focus of intensive research activities over the past several years. Application of these technologies has advanced beyond traditional high-cost niche uses - mostly related to radio astronomy and space applications - to embrace widespread new consumer applications, some of which show significant market potential. Increased opportunity to exploit these bands is in part created by the spectrum availability that enables extremely high data rates and the inherent miniaturizability of the radio front-ends. This naturally drives concomitant advancements in semiconductor technology at mm-waves and sub-millimeter waves that lower technology deployment cost and make it affordable for applications such as home multi-gigabit wireless systems, active and passive high resolution imaging for medical diagnostic or civil security applications, automotive radar, and body-area networks.