IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES

Special Issue on 2003 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Dear Author,

Congratulations on having your paper accepted for presentation at 2003 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

At this time, you are encouraged to submit a longer version of your paper with significantly expanded content for consideration as a contribution to the Special Symposium Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, scheduled for publication in November 2003.This invitation provides a rapid dissemination of your work to a broader technical community. IMS publishes a separate special issue. Please directly contact the IMS guest editor, Afshin Daryoush , for any questions in regards to this special issue.

Please note that your submission will be subject to the same rigorous review criteria and other IEEE-MTT publication policies (including page charges**) as other standard submissions to the Transactions. These policies can be found among the last pages of most transactions issues. Please also note that submission of your paper to the Digest and CD-ROM is a prerequisite for this transaction submission.

Since your Digest paper is an archival publication, your submitted paper must therefore be significantly expanded in substantive content compared to the Digest version. The addition of explanatory details or simple extensions of parameter values and/or figures are not considered substantive. Particularly, IEEE publication guidelines imply that only up to 1/3 of any published paper (i.e., digest) could be used for any other paper publication (i.e., your Special Issue paper). A good figure of merit is to repeat only the equivalent of one page out of four pages of text, figures, and data from your Digest paper in your expanded paper. 

The total number of scheduled papers for publication in the November Issue is set to be 7; this limited number mandates that a smaller fraction of the accepted papers can be published by November of 2003.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF YOUR PAPER IS 17 APRIL 2003.

For the submission of your manuscript, an electronic process is used, similar to that used in submitting your paper to the Symposium Digest.  Detailed instructions for the preparation of your submission are given in the author's guide. 

** PAGE CHARGES:

Papers will be reviewed for their technical merit, and decisions to publish will be made independent of an author's ability to pay page charges.  Page charges of $110 (U.S.) per printed page will be assessed on papers of five printed pages or less.  Over length page charges of $200 per page are mandatory for each page in excess of five pages. If the author's organization agrees to honor the total page charge, which includes the page charges on the first five pages plus the mandatory over length charge, the author will receive 100 reprints.  If the supporting organization honors only the mandatory charge, no free reprints will be sent.  A page Charge Form must be mailed or faxed to LRW Associates.

Submitting Your Transactions Paper

Author's Checklist:

1. Prepare all material needed for completing the paper submission

2. Prepare Transaction Version of your paper
(MS/Word 6.0/97 or later, postscript, or PDF format) 

Note: Please highlight the old material from your Digest paper in the text (e.g. change bars, etc.).  Avoid reliance on colors for your submitted paper and be sure that a black and white print version of your document is still legible. 

3.      Log on to the website and complete the Submission Form.

The paper submission web site is now open!

Upload files as directed, and obtain receipt/acknowledgement from web

5.  Mail or Fax a new completed Copyright Form to LRW Associates

MTT Symposium Transactions Editor

C/o LRW Associates

468 Walden Trail

Waxhaw, NC 28173, USA

TEL 704-481-1915, FAX 704-845-3078, EMAIL: lrwassoc@carolina.rr.com

6.  Mail or Fax completed Page Charge Form to LRW Associates

Authors who have questions concerning this submission process should contact the RFIC Guest Editor well in advance of the 17 April deadline.

Contact Information

Mail address:

Joseph Staudinger

The Special RFIC Issue of the MTT Transactions

2100 E. Elliot Road, MS EL-712

Tempe, AZ 85284

E-mail Address: j.staudinger@motorola.com

Fax: 480-413-4034

Thank you very much for your contribution.  I invite you to comment on the submission process.

Joseph Staudinger, Guest-Editor of the 2003 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, Transactions on MTT