50 years of Electronics Letters

In 1963 there was great interest in many aspects of microwave engineering in particular, and in the burgeoning fi eld of semiconductor electronics and circuit systems. The rapid communication of the latest advances in microwave components containing ferrite materials that offered nonreciprocal properties was served in part by the journal Applied Physics Letters but most other electronics-related activity in industry and universities had no outlet for rapid short announcements. Thus, a suggestion was made to the Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE - now the Institution of Engineering and Technology, IET) that a new journal should be launched to fi ll the gap. It was agreed that Electronics Letters should be published bi-monthly and the fi rst Issue appeared in March 1964.