General Chair

Ray Pengelly raypengelly@gmail.com

General Vice-Chair

Jing Wang, Univ. of South Florida jingw@usf.edu

IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference WAMICON 2015 April 13

th

to 15

th

2015 Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront Cocoa Beach, Florida

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: January 5, 2015

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Ed Takacs etakacs@cox.net

Bill Graves, Trak Microwave wgraves@trak.com

Xiaoguang Liu, University of California, Davis lxgliu@ucdavis.edu

Special Sessions Chair

Craig Sapashe, Agilent Technologies craig_sapashe@agilent.com

The 16th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference

(WAMICON 2015) will be held in Cocoa Beach, Florida from April 13

components and systems as well as wireless communications.

th through 15 th 2015. The conference will address up-to-date multidisciplinary research needs and interdisciplinary aspects of wireless and RF technology. The program includes both oral and poster presentations as well as tutorials and special sessions.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original and high-quality work for presentation at WAMICON 2015 for publication in IEEE Xplore. The technical program will cover emerging RF/microwave technologies, active and passive

Tutorials Chair

Joel Johnson, Harris Corp.

wjohns19@harris.com

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE

Invited Papers Chair

Mohamed Sayed mmsayed@sbcglobal.net

Poster Session Chair

Xun Gong, Univ. of Central Florida xun.gong@ucf.edu

Paper Competition Co-Chairs

Rhonda Franklin, University of Minnesota rfranklin@umn.edu

Jason Boh, Agilent Technologies Jason_Boh@agilent.com

Local Arrangements Chair

Kim McPeek, Trak Microwave kmcpeek@trak.com

Exhibits & Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Alen Fejzuli, Electro Technik Industries alen.fejzuli@electrotechnik.com

Jim Assurian, Reactel jassurian@Reactel.com

Publicity Chair

Michael Hallman, Microwave Journal mhallman@mwjournal.com

Power Amplifiers

High-Efficiency PAs, Linearization and Efficiency Enhancement Techniques and Topologies, Novel PA Architectures, High-Power Devices, Linear and Nonlinear Device Modeling and CAD, Thermal Considerations and Reliabilities, PA Applications

Active Components and Systems

Transceiver Design, Multi-Band RF Circuits and Systems, System-On-Chip, System-In-Package, Low-Power IC, Low-Noise IC, Radar RF/MMIC Electronics, Terahertz Electronics, Active (Non-Foster) Filters and Non-Foster Impedance Matching

Passive Components and Antennas

Filters, Transmission Line Components, MEMS, Advanced Packaging, Antennas and Arrays, Meta-Materials, Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures

Wireless Communications

Cognitive Radios, Wireless Networking, 3G/4G, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), MIMO, Multi-Carrier, Spread Spectrum, Channel Characterization and Modeling, Software Defined Radios (SDR)

Emerging RF and Microwave Technologies

Biomedical Applications, Wireless Sensing, Energy Harvesting, Wireless Power Transfer, Nano Devices and Circuits

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Publications Chair

Gary Breed, AY Technologies gary@aytechnologies.com

Registration Chair

Sergio Melais, Tampa Microwave s.melais@tampamicrowave.com

Finance Chair

Heather Quinones, ATK heather.quinones@atk.com

Website Chair

Sarah Miller, Cree Inc.

sarah_miller@cree.com

Henning Award Chair

Tom Weller, Univ. of South Florida weller@usf.edu

Authors are asked to submit papers electronically in .PDF format. In order to be considered for publication by the Technical Program Committee, an initial submission of 3 pages, clearly describing the concept and results must be submitted before the deadline of January 5, 2015. The final manuscript, which has a page limit of 3–6 pages, will be requested only after the paper is accepted. The conference webpage at www.wamicon.org

to a wide audience.

has complete details of submission requirements. Submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance of the work, technical soundness, and interest

Papers Due: January 5, 2015 Author Notification: January 26, 2015 Final Papers Due: February 9, 2015