A Look at the September Issue [From the Editor’s Desk]

Each Society within IEEE covers a specific area of electrical engineering, defined in the Society’s field of interest (FOI) statement. For the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), the FOI statement reads, “The field of interest of the society shall be theory, techniques and applications of guided wave and wireless technologies spanning the electromagnetic spectrum from RF/microwave through millimeter-waves and terahertz, including the aspects of materials, components, devices, circuits, modules, and systems which involve the generation, modulation, demodulation, control, transmission, sensing and effects of electromagnetic signals”
[1]
. Note that the FOI statement is quite broad—and intentionally so because our field is also quite broad, covering passive and active components, circuits, and systems in a variety of applications, thus making the MTT-S the “MHz to THz community.” This broad technology space is represented and fostered by our 28 technical committees in core technologies and techniques as well as systems and applications
[2]
. This idea of breadth within our Society is this month’s theme for
IEEE Microwave Magazine
: “Breadth of MTT.” In this issue, we offer you four technical articles that are examples of the wide technological reach of our community, as well as the usual columns that you expect.