Guest Editorial

摘要

This Mini-Special Issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES (TMTT) is devoted to the 2019 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2019), Singapore, December 10-13, 2019. APMC is one of the premier international conferences in the microwave community. The conference brought in a unique mix of high-quality keynote, invited, and contributed papers by world-class speakers from academia and industry, providing an opportunity for microwave family members to exchange their visions, insights, challenges, and progress in microwaves. It received a total submission of 1064 papers covering microwave to terahertz spectrum with a variety of applications by the authors from 56 countries/regions and finally accepted 720 papers after careful and rigorous peer review. The conference consisted of 71 technical oral and poster sessions from 53 technical tracks, eight workshops/short courses, 29 invited talks, and two plenary talks. In particular, 17 special sessions are convened by session organizers to discuss emerging technologies.