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Microwave Engineering and Waveguides

Microwave Engineering and Waveguides is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 76k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advances in microwave engineering, with a focus on substrate integrated waveguide, planar circuits, microstrip antennas, leaky-wave structures, and bandpass filters. It explores topics such as dual-band design, artificial neural networks in RF and microwave design, and applications in millimeter-wave technologies. The research also delves into space mapping techniques for engineering optimization.

  • Microwave Filters
  • Substrate Integrated Waveguide
  • Planar Circuits
  • Microstrip Antennas
  • Leaky-Wave Structures
  • Bandpass Filters
  • Dual-Band Design
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Millimeter-Wave Applications
  • Space Mapping
Research works
76k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Microwave Engineering and Waveguides

Which countries lead Microwave Engineering and Waveguides research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (5k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5k works
  2. 2 India 1.8k works
  3. 3 United States 908 works
  4. 4 South Korea 388 works
  5. 5 Japan 370 works
  6. 6 Germany 340 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 278 works
  8. 8 Canada 273 works
  9. 9 Taiwan 228 works
  10. 10 France 223 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 51.2%India: 18.0%United States: 9.3%South Korea: 4.0%6 others listed: 17.5%51%largest
China4,997 · 51.2%India1,757 · 18.0%United States908 · 9.3%South Korea388 · 4.0%6 others listed1,712 · 17.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Microwave Engineering and Waveguides research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Microwave Engineering and Waveguides research, followed by Southeast University and Xidian University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 533 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 263 works
  3. 3 Xidian UniversityChina 227 works
  4. 4 South China University of TechnologyChina 190 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 188 works
  6. 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 124 works
  7. 7 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 115 works
  8. 8 Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 107 works
  9. 9 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 103 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 97 works

Who are the leading researchers in Microwave Engineering and Waveguides?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Microwave Engineering and Waveguides include Wei Huang, Kenji Watanabe and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 L. Li France 211k citations
  5. 5 Jiaguo Yu China 207k citations
  6. 6 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  7. 7 Zhenan Bao United States 187k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 Shu Li France 169k citations
  10. 10 M. S. Dresselhaus United States 169k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Microwave Engineering and Waveguides?

The most cited paper in Microwave Engineering and Waveguides is "A perfectly matched layer for the absorption of electromagnetic waves" (Jean-Pierre Bérenger, 1994), with 10,127 citations. Next come "Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!" (7,539) and "Spatially Sparse Precoding in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems" (3,745).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A perfectly matched layer for the absorption of electromagnetic waves Jean-Pierre Bérenger · Journal of Computational Physics Oct 1994 10,127
2 Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work! Theodore S. Rappaport, Shu Dong Sun, Rimma Mayzus et al. · IEEE Access Open access 2013 7,539
3 Spatially Sparse Precoding in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems Omar El Ayach, Sridhar Rajagopal, Shadi Abu‐Surra et al. · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Open access 31 Jan 2014 3,745
4 Diffraction-free beams J. Durnin, Joseph J. Miceli, Joseph H. Eberly · Physical Review Letters 13 Apr 1987 3,681
5 Millimeter-wave beamforming as an enabling technology for 5G cellular communications: theoretical feasibility and prototype results Wonil Roh, Ji‐Yun Seol, Jeong-Ho Park et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine Feb 2014 2,882
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Microwave Engineering and Waveguides research done?

The largest centres of Microwave Engineering and Waveguides research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chengdu (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanjing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 832 works
  2. 2 ChengduChina 642 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 576 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 469 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 350 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 230 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 190 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 179 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 172 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 166 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nanjing81.5 works61×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Microwave Engineering and Waveguides than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Microwave Engineering and Waveguides?

Among universities, judged by research, South China University of Technology, University of Macau and Southeast University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…University of MacauSouth China Universi…Southeast University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1South China University of TechnologyChina 70.119.2%15.9×190 +32.5%
2University of MacauChina 65.921.5%14.9×52 -7.7%
3Southeast UniversityChina 64.314.6%16.2×262 +16.7%
4City University of Hong KongChina 61.322.6%7.7×48 -21.9%
5Nantong UniversityChina 60.919.5%12.5×62 +30.9%
6University of Technology SydneyAustralia 58.922.9%8.9×43 -22.3%
7University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 58.010.9%43.5×533 -6.4%
8Chinese University of Hong KongChina 57.620.2%2.5×20 +27.9%
9Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 56.716.8%3.2×73 +67.6%
10Tianjin UniversityChina 56.611.8%9.3×124 +164.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Microwave Engineering and Waveguides, country by country

Is Microwave Engineering and Waveguides research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Microwave Engineering and Waveguides as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.057% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Microwave Engineering and Waveguides0.045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Microwave Engineering and Waveguides over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Microwave Engineering and Waveguides9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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