{"title":"Introduction to the March 2025 Issue","authors":"Peter H. Siegel","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3543478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3543478","url":null,"abstract":"As we move forward into our fifth year of production with an official impact factor of 6.9 and full indexing on Web of Science and Scopus, we have greatly expanded our editorial board to handle the increased influx of submitted papers. Over the coming few months, we would like to reduce our article queue and our submission-to-decision time without sacrificing our quality or personal attention to authors and readers. We are hopeful that our now 36 Topic Editors will help us in this endeavor as well as bringing even more technical breadth and quality to our decision processes. Our March issue contains twenty technical articles covering our typically wide swath of microwave technologies and applications with emphasis this month on health sciences, low power energy transfer, radar, and filter circuits. We also bring the reader's attention to our recently released special issue <italic>Microwaves in Climate Change</i> and announce our 2023 Best Paper Award and our 2024 Outstanding Reviewers.","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 2","pages":"242-256"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10931041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143654912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depth Camera Motion Tracking for Motion Compensation and ISAR Imaging in Walk-Through Security Scanners","authors":"Konstantin Root;Ingrid Ullmann;Martin Vossiek","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3543716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3543716","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the fusion of radar and depth camera for maintaining high-quality radar images in walk-through security scanners with significantly reduced array geometries. Therefore, after sensor calibration, the reconstruction volume is initially divided into sub-volumes and linked to the closest body part of a walking person being scanned. The depth camera's motion tracking provides the location and orientation of each body joint during the gait, allowing us to determine their trajectory and velocity. This information is then used to compensate for movement in the image reconstruction of each recorded radar frame. Afterwards, the motion compensated images are then superimposed to one ISAR image, considering the complete trajectory of the person. We conducted measurements with a <inline-formula><tex-math>$3.6 ,mathrm{G}mathrm{Hz}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-to-<inline-formula><tex-math>$10.6 ,mathrm{G}mathrm{Hz}$</tex-math></inline-formula> walk-through security scanner and a real person carrying various objects. Motion tracking with a depth camera shows promising results for both imaging approaches. In the motion-compensated images, small details became visible and focused compared to reconstruction results without applied motion compensation. The ISAR approach demonstrated effective alignment of individual frames into one superimposed image, producing a full-body image even with a reduced array dimension. While these results prove the benefit of the fusion of radar and depth camera, further investigations into array design are necessary, as object visibility is strongly affected by the selected array geometry for ISAR imaging. This fact could complicate the reliable detection of potential threat objects with a downsized imaging array.","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 2","pages":"388-398"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10931064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143654854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photonic Stepped-Frequency Intensity Modulated Comb Terahertz Radar","authors":"Vladyslav Cherniak;Kevin Kolpatzeck;Jan C. Balzer","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3544017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3544017","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an ultra-high repetition rate (UHRR) terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system with a unique capability – it functions as a close-range pulsed radar with micrometer precision and an unambiguous range (UR) of about 3 mm. To extend the UR, a stepped-frequency intensity modulated comb (s-FIMC) is introduced. This results in a hybrid radar system, where s-FIMC is employed to determine the distance to a target, while the THz-TDS signal is utilized to monitor changes in the target's position with micrometer precision. With a 10 GHz modulation bandwidth, a resolution of 15 mm, and a range accuracy of <inline-formula><tex-math>$pm$</tex-math></inline-formula>1.47 mm are achieved in s-FIMC mode. In the TDS mode, a range accuracy of <inline-formula><tex-math>$pm$</tex-math></inline-formula>15 <inline-formula><tex-math>$rm {mu }$</tex-math></inline-formula>m is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 2","pages":"399-408"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10931045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143654897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Journal of Microwaves Information for Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3541904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3541904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 2","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10930963","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143655017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruibin Gao;Yi Zhang;Zhijiang Dai;Weimin Shi;Mingyu Li;Shichang Chen;Jingzhou Pang
{"title":"Modified Three-Way Doherty Power Amplifier Design Using Simplified Transistor Model Assisted Optimization for Ultra-Wideband Applications","authors":"Ruibin Gao;Yi Zhang;Zhijiang Dai;Weimin Shi;Mingyu Li;Shichang Chen;Jingzhou Pang","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3545033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3545033","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and realization of an ultra-wideband three-way Doherty power amplifier (DPA). A modified load modulation network (LMN) with very simple circuit structure is proposed to enhance the bandwidth of three-way DPAs. An equivalent transmission line (TL) network is employed to construct the proposed LMN, which absorbs the package and parasitic parameters of the active devices. Meanwhile, the complex combining load is also employed to further improve the broadband performance of the proposed three-way DPA. To streamline the design process for complex power amplifiers (PAs), we introduce a tailored, expedited approach that harnesses a simplified transistor behavioral model and corresponding design methodology. This methodology significantly diminishes the complexities associated with multi-way DPA designs, enabling the swift completion of initial design iterations. To validate the proposed circuit architecture and design strategy, a three-way DPA with a bandwidth spanning more than one octave is designed and fabricated using commercial Gallium Nitride (GaN) devices. The fabricated three-way DPA achieves efficiency higher than 46% at 6 dB output power back-off (OBO) throughout the band from 0.7 GHz to 2.3 GHz, with a small signal gain of 11.7–13.9 dB. At saturation, 43.9–46.4 dBm output power can be obtained with peak efficiency of 58.9–78.1% . The modulation signal test has also been completed with a 64 QAM signal which has a PAPR of 6.7 dB and a bandwidth of 10 MHz, ACPR better than −20.8 dBc has been achieved.","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 3","pages":"711-725"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10930730","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for Papers—Announcing a New Special Issue: Microwaves in Medicine & Biology","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3568236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3568236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 3","pages":"750-750"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10994215","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"95 GHz Indoor Propagation Measurement and 3GPP-Compatible Channel Model for Sub-THz Indoor Short-Range Communications","authors":"Yusuke Koda;Norichika Ohmi;Hiroaki Endo;Hiroshi Harada","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3562285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3562285","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a 95 GHz indoor channel measurement campaign for an ultra-wideband short-range communication scenario and proposes an intra-cluster stochastic channel generation procedure compatible with the well-known 3GPP stochastic channel model (SCM) for this use case with a larger bandwidth than 2 GHz. Recently, a 3GPP-compatible SCM for device-to-device (D2D) short-range communication in a bandwidth of 2 GHz has been developed at the 60 GHz band to provide a unified channel generation framework aligned with 3GPP-led cellular-type communications with lower bandwidth (e.g., 400 MHz typical for millimeter wave communications). This study aims to extend this framework for an upper band and larger bandwidth by defining the experimentally found large-scale parameters at 90–100 GHz while adjusting the intra-cluster subpath generation mechanism. To this end, we first conduct a wideband multipath channel measurement at 95 GHz center frequency with 4 GHz bandwidth in a simple conference room scenario as an exemplary environment of wideband short-range communication. Statistical characteristics of a complete set of large-scale parameters (LSPs) for running the 3GPP-compatible SCM are derived where LSP trends specific to D2D short-range communication scenarios in a small conference room and extendable from the recent 60 GHz measurements are observed. Moreover, we propose an unequal intra-cluster subpath generation procedure, serving as an additional adjustment for accurate channel generation for bandwidths greater than 2 GHz. Numerical evaluation reveals the feasibility of generating channel impulse responses capturing more accurate characteristics at both the large-scale level and intra-cluster level. Specifically, owing to the proposed adjustment, the statistical characteristics in the intra-cluster subpath well fit the results from our presented measurements.","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 3","pages":"583-599"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10994203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Journal of Microwaves Information for Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3561531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3561531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 3","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10994216","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society Publication Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3561527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3561527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 3","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10994206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the May 2025 Issue","authors":"Peter H. Siegel","doi":"10.1109/JMW.2025.3563079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2025.3563079","url":null,"abstract":"Our May issue contains eighteen technical articles spanning magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) induced heating, implantable medical devices, human skin modelling in the microwave region, energy harvesting for electric vehicles, fully integrated THz radar circuitry implemented in silicon germanium, millimeter-wave indoor communications modelling, synthetic aperture radar imaging techniques, photonic-based multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) radar, a MIMO emulator, rectifiers for wireless power transfer, microwave switches, amplifiers, power combiners, and optimization techniques. We close with a general article on analyzing arbitrarily shaped waveguide discontinuities. We would also like to bring your attention to a new special issue we are targeting for release in early 2026 on Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. You will find the call for papers at the end of our Table of Contents for this May issue.","PeriodicalId":93296,"journal":{"name":"IEEE journal of microwaves","volume":"5 3","pages":"505-517"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10994205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143925226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}