Welcome to 2017 Thailand-Japan MicroWave (TJMW2017) !

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 build strong friendship between both societies. First of all we need to say our appreciation to all of microwave friends, related societies and affiliations.

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 members feel the warm and positive atmosphere between Thailand and Japan, resulting in organizing TJMW again. The TJMW restarted at King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KNUTNB) in 2009. Since 2009, TJMW has held in Bangkok every year except 2010. The 8th TJMW, TJMW2017, will be held on June 14-16, at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), a new location for the TJMW.

TJMW2017 is organized and co-sponsored by IEICE Technical Committee on Microwaves and is jointly hosted by KMUTT. The workshop is also technically co-sponsored by iEMAT, IEICE Bangkok Section, IEEE MTT/AP/ED Thailand Chapters, ECTI Association, IEEE MTT-S Japan/Kansai/Nagoya Chapters, IEICE Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices, IEICE Technical Committee on Wireless Power Transfer. With the great helps from above societies, we received many paper submissions of about 70 including 47 young researchers’ papers. The student design competition will be held this year as well as last year.

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 we believe that TJMW is now one of the important hub ports of the regional human network between ASEAN, especially Thailand and Japan. It is our pleasure to contribute for the construction of the hubs/networks in technologies. We expect strengthening friendships among multi-regions and multi-generations in TJMW2017.

We would like to express our appreciation to all sponsors, Thaicom Public Company Limited, Stang Company Limited, UM-Services LTD., National Instruments, AWR Group, M-RF Co., Ltd., Device Co., Ltd, Anritsu Corporation, and Keysight Technologies for their continuous support that makes this conference successful. Finally, we greatly appreciate all the authors, speakers, and attendees for participating in this event.

Radchawadee Silapunt and Hiroshi Okazaki

TJMW2017 General Chairs