Guest Editorial

Abstract

Summary form only given, as follows. We are honored and delighted to introduce several accepted papers from the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT2011) to the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) community. RFIT is a relatively new and small focused forum for crossed disciplines in microelectronics and microwaves. It was established firstly as a workshop in Singapore in 2005 and became a symposium in 2009. The 2011 RFIT Symposium was held in Beijing, China, from November 30 to December 2, 2011, and it will move around IEEE Region 10. RFIT provides a forum for the integrated circuit and technology communities to meet and present the latest developments in integrated circuit design and technology and system integration with an emphasis on wireless communication systems and emerging applications such as terahertz, biology and health care, as well as emerging 3-D integration technologies. The 2011 RFIT received 87 contributed submissions from 14 countries, and accepted 42 papers after a peer-review process. An additional ten invited papers were presented in the program. The symposium consists of one day of tutorial and two days of technical sessions with a total of over 90 delegates. All presenters were invited to submit expanded versions of their papers, and several groups of authors submitted their papers. The papers were handled in the same way as all other submissions by the editorial staff and reviewed according to the same standards as other regular papers. Furthermore, they had to expand the technical content of the paper compared to the RFIT paper, which is not easy. We wish to express a special acknowledgment to this TRANSACTIONS' Editor-in-Chief, Dr. George E. Ponchak, for his unstinting help and advice. We express our gratitude to the expert reviewers who donated their time and effort to make detailed reviews of these papers. Finally, we are grateful to the authors for submitting their contributions and for their efficient working relationships with the editors and reviewers to meet the publication schedule.