Preface

Abstract

In this special issue, consisting of two parts, the Reader will find papers, selected from over 180 ones, presented during the 13th International Conference on Microwaves, Radar and Wireless Communications MIKON-2000, which was held at the Wroclaw Technical University, Wroclaw, Poland on 22–24 May 2000.
The MIKON conference has over 30 years history, however only for the fourth time it was being organised as an biannual international event. The first nine conferences were held under the auspices of Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) on the national scale, with only a limited number of foreign invited speakers. Initially known as microwave solid state technology conference MECS, in 1983 it was transformed into MIKON. Those nine national conferences created a solid basis for the transforming MIKON into an international conference in 1994. Now it takes place regularly every two years in May in various Polish cities – the biggest research and cultural centres. The MIKON conference has become known as a regional conference in Central and Eastern Europe. The increasing participation of foreign attendees and their papers has resulted in the situation that last year, for the first time, they outnumbered the Polish contributions. (...)