IMPORTANT DATES
| Paper submission deadline: | October 1,
2025 |
| Notification of Acceptance: | November 1,
2025 |
| Final Paper Submission: | Coming Soon |
| Conference Date: | February 7-9, 2026 |
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
AUTHORS
Papers must be written in English and formatted in the standard conference proceedings layout. Word or Latex Templates can be downloaded from the
IEEE Conference Publishing site. Please, be sure to use the template's
conference mode (LaTeX users).
Please check carefully the author information when uploading your prospective paper, since this information is used directly to create the Conference Program booklet. Submissions in hardcopy form or
by fax or e-mail cannot be accepted.
After review, the authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity of changing details and introduce modifications suggested by the reviewers.
Notification of acceptance will be communicated to the authors via e-mail by November 1, 2025. Accepted papers will be published in the IMFW 2026 Conference Proceedings as well as in the IEEE Xplore. The
final paper submission deadline is COMING SOON.
Authors of accepted papers will be requested to upload their final paper in PDF format via the
paper
submission
website (detailed instructions for the PDF file preparation will be provided).
Authors are responsible for obtaining publication approval by their employer or sponsor and the copyright must be assigned to the IEEE. The direct link to submit the IEEE electronic Copyright Form can
be found at the end of the final paper submission process.
CHECK LIST FOR AUTHORS
First submission:
• Prospective paper prepared in accordance with either the Word Template or the Latex Template, properly converted into a PDF file.
Once a paper has been accepted:
• Compliance with IEEE
eXpress PDF format checked (Use Conference ID: COMING SOON)
• Submission of final paper in PDF by COMING SOON.
• Online Copyright Form properly completed and submitted by COMING SOON (will be prompted as part of the paper submission process).
EXPANSION OF THE CONFERENCE PAPERS INTO JOURNAL PAPERS
Authors
of accepted IMFW 2026 papers will be encouraged to expand
their conference paper into a journal paper, to be
considered for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on
Microwave Theory and Techniques.
Ph.D. INITIATIVE
Ph.D. Initiative Guideline: Download
Word Doc for Initiative Guidelines
Ph.D. Initiative Application Form: Download
Word Doc for Application Form
STUDENT PAPER CONTEST
A student Contest will be held during IMFW 2026. The contest is open to all students younger than 30 years old on the opening day of the conference; they have to appear as first author of an accepted paper. A Student
complying with these conditions who wishes to participate in the contest is invited to send an email to the TPC
Chair with the subject "IMFW2026: Student Paper Contest", including name and date of birth.
BEST PAPER AWARD
The “Best Paper Awards” will be given to the authors of the paper which will be selected among the papers presented in IMFW2026 by the award committee.
IEEE NOTICE ON PLAGIARISM
“IEEE defines plagiarism as the use of someone else’s prior
ideas, processes, results, data, algorithms, or words without
explicitly acknowledging the
original author and/or
source.” This includes:
•Verbatim copying of another author's work.
•Paraphrasing, or rewording another author’s text but having the
same meaning, is forbidden. (Paraphrasing a small section of a paper is permitted if it is properly cited.)
•Using data from another author’s paper must be properly cited.
•Artificial Intelligence
generation of any part of a paper is forbidden.
Papers must be written in English and formatted in the standard conference proceedings layout. Word or Latex Templates can be downloaded from the IEEE Conference Publishing site. Please, be sure to use the template's conference mode (LaTeX users).
Please check carefully the author information when uploading your prospective paper, since this information is used directly to create the Conference Program booklet. Submissions in hardcopy form or by fax or e-mail cannot be accepted.
After review, the authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity of changing details and introduce modifications suggested by the reviewers.
Notification of acceptance will be communicated to the authors via e-mail by November 1, 2025. Accepted papers will be published in the IMFW 2026 Conference Proceedings as well as in the IEEE Xplore. The final paper submission deadline is COMING SOON.
Authors of accepted papers will be requested to upload their final paper in PDF format via the paper submission website (detailed instructions for the PDF file preparation will be provided).
Authors are responsible for obtaining publication approval by their employer or sponsor and the copyright must be assigned to the IEEE. The direct link to submit the IEEE electronic Copyright Form can be found at the end of the final paper submission process.
CHECK LIST FOR AUTHORS
First submission:
• Prospective paper prepared in accordance with either the Word Template or the Latex Template, properly converted into a PDF file.
Once a paper has been accepted:
• Compliance with IEEE eXpress PDF format checked (Use Conference ID: COMING SOON)
• Submission of final paper in PDF by COMING SOON.
• Online Copyright Form properly completed and submitted by COMING SOON (will be prompted as part of the paper submission process).
EXPANSION OF THE CONFERENCE PAPERS INTO JOURNAL PAPERS
Authors of accepted IMFW 2026 papers will be encouraged to expand their conference paper into a journal paper, to be considered for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
Ph.D. INITIATIVE
Ph.D. Initiative Guideline: Download Word Doc for Initiative Guidelines
Ph.D. Initiative Application Form: Download Word Doc for Application Form
STUDENT PAPER CONTEST
A student Contest will be held during IMFW 2026. The contest is open to all students younger than 30 years old on the opening day of the conference; they have to appear as first author of an accepted paper. A Student complying with these conditions who wishes to participate in the contest is invited to send an email to the TPC Chair with the subject "IMFW2026: Student Paper Contest", including name and date of birth.
BEST PAPER AWARD
The “Best Paper Awards” will be given to the authors of the paper which will be selected among the papers presented in IMFW2026 by the award committee.
IEEE NOTICE ON PLAGIARISM
•Verbatim copying of another author's work.
•Paraphrasing, or rewording another author’s text but having the same meaning, is forbidden. (Paraphrasing a small section of a paper is permitted if it is properly cited.)
•Using data from another author’s paper must be properly cited.
•Artificial Intelligence generation of any part of a paper is forbidden.