The International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT) is an annual forum for the exchange of information on the research and development in innovative antenna technologies. It especially focuses on small antennas and applications of advanced and artificial materials to the antenna design. At iWAT, all the oral presentations are delivered by invited prominent researchers and professors. iWAT has a particular focus on posters by which authors have the opportunity to interact with leading researchers in their fields. iWAT2027 is a continuation of a series of annual international antenna workshops held in Singapore (2005), White Plaines, USA (2006), Cambridge, UK (2007), Chiba, Japan (2008), Santa Monica, USA (2009), Lisbon, Portugal (2010), Hong Kong, PRC (2011), Tucson, USA (2012), Karlsruhe, Germany (2013), Sydney, Australia (2014), Seoul, Republic of Korea (2015), and Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA (2016), Athens, Greece (2017), Nanjing, China (2018), Miami, USA (2019), Bucharest, Romania (2020), Dublin, Ireland (2022), Aalborg, Denmark (2023), Sendai, Japan (2024), Florida, USA (2025) and Liverpool, UK(2026).
The workshop is technically sponsored by IEEE AP-S and IEEE Greece Section and financially sponsored by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and University of Patras (UP).
Topics of interest
Topics include but are not limited to the following:
Antennas
- Adaptive (smart) arrays
- Antenna Design and Analysis Based on Characteristic or Eigen Modes
- Antenna measurements
- Antennas on/in IC packages
- Body-Centric Antennas
- Broadband antennas
- Conformal antennas
- Magnetic Nanoparticles, Graphene or Carbon-nanotubes in Antennas
- Measurements for SAR of handheld devices
- MEMS/nano technology for antennas
- Terahertz Nano and optical antennas
- Modeling and simulations
- Non-Foster/active elements
- On-chip antennas
- Reconfigurable antennas
- Reflectarrays
- Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas
- Wearable, Implanted and Encapsulated antennas
- 3D printed antennas and structures
Innovative Structures
- Frequency selective surfaces (FSS)
- Single and double negative metamaterials
- Electromagnetic Skins: Epidermal, Flexible and Stretchable Antennas, Sensing Substrates
Antennas meet Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI for antenna designs and optimisation
- Challenges in using AI for antenna designs
- Characteristic mode analysis and development
- Frontiers of Generative AI
- Surrogate modeling
Applications
- Automotive systems
- Biomedical and Healthcare applications
- Bluetooth/WLAN (PDAs, laptops)
- Energy harvesting
- GPS systems
- Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications.
- Millimeter-wave/terahertz communications and imaging
- Massive MIMO systems
- RFID antennas and Wireless Sensing systems
- Software-defined / cognitive radio
- Satellite communications
- UWB communications
- WBAN systems
- Wireless communication systems (handheld devices, base stations)
- Wireless power transmission and harvesting for implanted systems
- 5G and Beyond communication systems
Submission Guidelines
- Authors MUST submit camera-ready papers that are 2 to 4 pages including figures by November 30, 2026 via the workshop website. All papers must be formatted in two-column IEEE format including figures and electronic submissions must meet all IEEEXplore specifications. Please use the IEEE template as described here.
- The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to iWAT027. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. Please check the “Guidance for IEEE Publications Regarding AI-Generated Text”.
- All papers for iWAT2027 should be submitted via EasyChair.
Important dates
| Submission of full papers | November 30, 2026 |
| Notification of acceptance | January 15, 2027 |
| Conference | May 11-13, 2027 |