Editorial Inaugural Issue of the “Journal-Within-a-Journal” on Microwave Systems and Applications

The globalization of the microwave and RF application space and commercial market has led to a situation in which no microwave engineer can remain solely focused on component design. Modern engineers now use complex CAD tools that allow them to reach deep into many aspects of system design as well, and refine their designs to improve overall system performance. Although radio communications were at the origin of RF technologies in the late nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century, the system-level design has embraced many more applications of RF and microwave technologies, such as radar, sensing, heating, and imaging.