Welcome to 2016 Thailand-Japan MicroWave (TJMW2016) !

It is our great pleasure to see all of microwave friends again in Bangkok, Thailand. Microwave researchers in Thailand and Japan organize this conference to accumulate friendship between both societies. First of all we need to say my appreciation to all of microwave friends, related societies and affiliations. Also we can have this conference again under the deep understandings of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB).

In 1999, we had the first TJMW at Pattaya, Thailand. It was a small, but great step for both microwave societies. Unfortunately there were fewer opportunities to have technical discussions on microwave theory and techniques after TJMW1999. Through the discussions in APMC2007 held in Bangkok, all of members feel the warm atmosphere and intensions between Thailand and Japan, resulting in organizing TJMW again. The renewal TJMW started at King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KNUTNB) in 2009. Since 2009, TJMW has held in Bangkok every year except 2010. The 7th renewal TJMW, TJMW2016, will be held on June 9-11, at KMUTNB again.

TJMW2016 is organized and co-sponsored by IEICE Technical Committee on Microwaves and is jointly hosted by KMUTNB. The workshop is also technically co-sponsored by IEICE Bangkok Section, IEEE MTT/AP/ED Thailand chapter, ECTI Association, IEEE MTT-S Japan/Kansai/Nagoya chapters, IEICE Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices, and IEICE Technical Committee on Wireless Power Transfer. With the great helps from above societies, we received many paper submissions of about 70 including 44 young researchers’ papers. This year we first organize the student design competition on the last day.

For long years, our microwave society have been keeping important role as “the hub port of technologies” among antenna, communication, optics, electronic devices, integrated circuits, EMC and so on. Also TJMW is becoming the important hub port of the regional human network between ASEAN and Japan. It is our pleasure to contribute for the construction of the hubs/networks in technologies. We expect accumulations of strong friendships among multi-regions and multi-generations in TJMW2016.

We would like to express our appreciation to all sponsors, NI AWR group, Thaicom, UMS, Technoprobe, and DEVICE CO. for their continuous support that makes this conference success. Finally, we would like to appreciate all the authors, speakers, and attendees.

Titipong Lertwiriyaprapa and Kenjiro Nishikawa

TJMW2016 General Chairs