While this 2023 is closing, dear reader, I would like to thank you for your interest and continuing support. I also join the entire Editorial Board and the publishing team of our magazine to wish you a wonderful holiday season and a 2024 that fulfills your expectations and hopes for the future.
This issue closes the year with several wonderful contributions from the columns. In addition to that, you will also be able to enjoy a great feature article from Brown and Rahmat-Samii [A1] presenting a quite comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art error vector magnitude (EVM) simulation and measurement strategies. The article starts with a clear introduction and then reviews the role of EVM in antennas and phased arrays with a focus on simulation. The contribution then analyzes the associated measurement strategies in both the far and near fields. Finally, the authors offer us insightful conclusions and a perspective for future investigations. Enjoy the reading!
Do you already know, dear reader, that the holiday season is the best moment of the year to think about a new special issue for the magazine? Please consider submitting a new proposal to us! Special issues and sections are comprised of up to six articles to appear in a single issue of the magazine. A special series, instead, runs for several issues (one or two articles per issue). The focus of special issues/sections/series could be on either established or emerging research topics relevant to AP-S. Needless to say, we are also quite interested in interdisciplinary topics. You can send your proposal to apm-eic@ieee.org with 1) a title and a short abstract, 2) the list of prospective guest editors with affiliations, and 3) a tentative list of potential contributors. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
We are very grateful to our editors who will retire at the end of the year, Matthys Botha and Meisong Tong. Their work has been truly exceptional, and we feel very much inspired by their service to our magazine.
[A1] D. Brown and Y. Rahmat-Samii, “Error vector magnitude as a performance standard for antennas in the millimeter-wave era: Part 2: Modeling, simulation, and measurement methods,” IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag., vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 10–24, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/MAP.2023.3272842.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MAP.2023.3325610