IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION

Editorial Board
Danilo Erricolo, Editor-in-Chief Sunny Tse, Editorial Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering e-mail: tap.editor@ieee.org
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
e-mail: tap.editor@ieee.org Track Editors:
Robert Burkholder Jiro Hirokawa Andrew Peterson Jamesina Simpson
Vincenzo Galdi Claire Migliaccio Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini Kin-Lu Wong

Associate Editors
Amin Abbosh David Davidson Wonbin Hong Yue Li Sudhakar Rao
Francesco P. Andriulli Xueyang (Jessie) Duan Marianna Ivashina Hao Ling Carlo Riva
Francisco Ares Pena Karu Esselle Ashwin Iyer Guido Lombardi Atif Shamim
Mohamed H. Bakr Mauro Ettorre Lijun Jiang Dirk Manteuffel Zhongxiang Shen
Filiberto Bilotti Dejan Filipovic Ozlem Kilic Vikass Monebhurrun Alberto Toccafondi
Amir Boag Takeshi Fukusako Asimina Kiourti Jeffrey Nanzer Leena Ukkonen
Rafael Caldeirinha Steven Shichang Gao Nantia Nikita Felix Vega
Ludger Klinkenbusch
Daniele Cavallo Stavros Georgakopoulos Branislav Notaros Ashraf Zaman
Jinhwan Koh
Goutam Chattopadhyay Jaideva C. Goswami Yongmei Pan Jiang Zhu
Mojgan Daneshmand Debatosh Guha Monai Krairiksh Maria Pour
Levent Gurel Thomas Kürner

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