Periodic Structure and Metamaterial Applications for RF and Microwave Engineering

Call for Papers

Antenna and RF and microwave component developers are facing the challenges in design driven by the growing demands for broadband service, mobility of small and light-weight devices, and high throughput for wireless communication systems. In response to the need to find the alternatives, periodic structures such as FSS (frequency selective surface), PBG (photonic band-gap), and EBG (electromagnetic band-gap) are combined with the new material and manufacturing technologies to circumvent the design challenges the RF and microwave community is facing. Especially, MTM (metamaterial) has drawn much attention from wireless communication system designers and optical engineers through negative constitutive parameters and refractive index and left-handed propagation. So, in line with this emerging area, the dispersion engineering is a recognized crucial field in our research activities to cope with difficult design tasks. Looking back upon the recent years, there have been a variety of works and studies conducted on developing the analysis and design methods of FSS, DNG (double-negative)/SNG (single-negative)/AMC (artificial magnetic conductor), and EBG and applying them to the practical field. Hence, the researchers of the aforementioned area can get the chance to share their ideas and achievements by contributing papers to this special issue.

We invite investigators to contribute original as well as review articles on research and development of periodic structure and metamaterial applications for RF and microwave engineering. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Antennas based on FSS, EBG, MTM, and advanced materials
• RF and microwave passive and active components with FSS, EBG, advanced materials, and MTMs
• Terahertz engineering with FSS, EBG, MTM, and advanced materials
• Metamaterials for medical applications
• Other related works

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmst/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Hongmin Lee, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Guest Editors

• Hisamatsu Nakano, Department of Electronic Informatics, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
• Gokhan Mumcu, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
• Sungtek Kahng, Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Incheon, Incheon, Republic of Korea