Some of our SIG members took the initiative to organize a Special Section on Advances in Antenna Design for Metaverse and Other Modern Smart Mobile Devices in IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation (OJAP). The submission deadline is 31 Oct 2022. The Guest Editorial team consists of Chi-Yuk CHIU, Zhinong YING, Yue LI and Jiang ZHU. More details can be found here.Read More →

One of our SIG members Assistant Professor Mahrukh Khan recently obtained an NSF grant of nearly 200,000 USD to work on “Addressing the Challenges in Microstrip Antenna Design using Surface Current Optimization“, 2022-2023. Congrats!!!Read More →

The CM Special Issue “Into the Mainstream and the Path Beyond”, has been published in the April issue of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. It represents the first ever special issue in the AP Magazine that was formed with close coordination of the authors of all the included papers, covering important topics in the theory and application of characteristic modes.Read More →

We are happy to announce that the 2023 edition of the European School of Antenna (ESoA) course on characteristic modes will be held during 5-9 June 2023 in Hannover, Germany. The event will be hosted by Dirk Manteuffel at the Leibniz University of Hannover, and co-organized with Universitat Politècnica de València, Czech Technical University in Prague and Lund University. Please save the dates!Read More →

Yikai Chen is spearheading a new special issue on CM in the Chinese Journal of Electronics, which is co-published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) & Chinese Institute of Electronics. The journal publishes high-quality research papers on advances in electronics. The guest editorial team also includes Qi Wu, Chao-Fu Wang and Simone Genovesi. The Call for Paper is found here.Read More →

Our proposal for a Characteristic Modes Convened Session at 2022 European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2022) has been accepted! The title of the session is “Enhanced Capabilities of Characteristic Mode Analysis for Novel Applications” and the conveners are John Borchardt (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) and Chao-Fu Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore). EuCAP 2022 will be held in Madrid Spain between 27 Mar – 1 Apr 2022.Read More →