Guest editorial

This Transactions´ Special Issue is dedicated to the state-of-the-art papers in microwave theory and techniques that have their origins in papers presented at the 35th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Paris, France, October 3-7, 2005. It is this Transactions second Special Issue dedicated to the EuMC. The 35th EuMC received a submission of 711 papers. From these, 452 were accepted for presentation at the conference. Contributions came from 49 countries, the highest contingents in the order of incidence coming from Korea, France, Germany, the U.S., Japan, the U.K., Spain, and Italy. This Transactions´ Special Issue began by inviting the authors of the papers accepted to EuMC??05 to contribute significantly expanded papers for potential inclusion in this Special Issue. The requirement was that 60% of the submitted paper should be new and different from the digest papers presented at the EuMC´05. For this Transactions´ Special Issue, we received 116 papers, which corresponds to a response rate to the Calls for Papers of 16%. From the submitted expanded papers, 40 have been accepted for publication.We hope that the technical content of the papers published in this Transactions´ Special Issue will be of great interest and use to you.