Journal Guide

IET Energy Systems Integration is a Gold Open Access multi-disciplinary journal that covers the integration of multiple energy systems (e.g. electricity, nature gas, heating, cooling, hydrogen, and low-carbon transport), at various scales (from multinational, national, community scale down to building level) and across the energy supply chain (from energy conversion, transmission, distribution down to consumption). The journal publishes original research findings, the latest perspectives from research projects and technology development, and systematic reviews in the field of energy systems integration.

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution provides a forum for the publication and discussion of current best practice and future developments in electric power generation, transmission and distribution. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution includes papers on: • Design of transmission and distribution plants • Operation and control of power generation • Power system management and planning • Power system operation and control • Power system measurement and correction • Computer applications and computational intelligence in power flexible AC transmission systems

The IET Image Processing journal encompasses research related to the generation, processing and communication of visual information. The focus of the journal is the coverage of the latest research results in image and video processing, including image generation and display, enhancement and restoration, segmentation, colour and texture analysis, coding and communication, implementations and architectures as well as innovative applications. Principal topics include: • Generation and Display: Imaging sensors and acquisition systems, illumination, sampling and scanning, quantisation, colour reproduction, image rendering, display and printing systems, evaluation of image quality • Processing and Analysis: Image enhancement, restoration, segmentation, registration, multispectral, colour and texture processing, multiresolution processing and wavelets, morphological operations, stereoscopic and 3-D processing, motion detection and estimation, video and image sequence processing • Implementations and Architectures: Image and video processing hardware and software, design and construction, architectures and software, neural, adaptive, and fuzzy processing • Coding and Transmission: Image and video compression and coding, compression standards, noise modelling, visual information networks, streamed video • Retrieval and Multimedia: Storage of images and video, database design, image retrieval, video annotation and editing, mixed media incorporating visual information, multimedia systems and applications, image and video watermarking, steganography • Applications: Innovative application of image and video processing technologies to any field, including life sciences, earth sciences, astronomy, document processing and security

IET Information Security publishes original, peer-reviewed, research papers in information security and cryptography. Information security is a multidisciplinary field that spans the very broad area of computer security, modern cryptography, and the electronic aspects of hardware security. The aim of the journal is to bring together papers from all disciplines contributing to information security. Some of the topics covered by this journal are: access control and database security; block ciphers and hash functions; financial cryptography; economic aspects of information security; key management and secret sharing; malware; peer-to-peer security; quantum cryptography; secure electronic commerce; and watermarking and fingerprinting.

IET Intelligent Transport Systems is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to research into the practical applications of ITS and infrastructures. This journal covers many topics including the following: • Information collection and processing • In-vehicle ITS, safety and vulnerable road user aspects • ITS aspects of electric vehicles • Public transport • Demand management and electronic payment systems • Traffic management • Fleet and public transport logistics • Emergency and incident management • Policy and institutional issues • Interoperability, standards and architectures • Deployment and evaluation • Sustainability and environmental issues • Funding scenarios • Enforcement • Human machine interaction • Education, training and outreach • Deployments with enabling technologies

IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation comprehensively covers microwave and RF circuits, microwave and millimetre wave amplifiers, oscillators, switches, mixers and other components. Topics covered include: • Microwave circuits: RF, microwave and millimetre wave amplifiers, oscillators, switches, mixers and other components implemented in monolithic, hybrid, multi-chip module and other technologies. Papers on passive components may describe transmission-line and waveguide components, including filters, multiplexers, resonators, ferrite and garnet devices. Papers also cover microwave sub-systems for use in communications, radar, aerospace, instrumentation, and industrial and medical applications • Antenna topics include: antennas for operation at all frequencies, multiband antennas, antenna measurement techniques and systems, antenna analysis and design, aperture antenna arrays, adaptive antennas, printed and wire antennas, microstrip and integrated antenna • Propagation topics include: radiowave propagation at all frequencies and Environments

Nanobiotechnology extends from single molecule measurements using scanning probe techniques, through to interactions between cells and microstructures, micro- and nano-fluidics, and aspects of lab-on-chip technologies. The primary aim of IET Nanobiotechnology is to provide a resource that brings together important developments in this exciting interdisciplinary field. It achieves this by publishing cutting-edge research papers and expert review articles from the international engineering and scientific community. IET Nanobiotechnology covers all aspects of research and emerging technologies in the field including: • Fundamental theories and concepts applied to biomedical-related devices and methods at the micro- and nano-scale (including methods that employ electrokinetic, electrohydrodynamic, and optical trapping techniques) • Micromachining and microfabrication tools and techniques applied to the top-down approach to nanobiotechnology • Nanomachining and nanofabrication tools and techniques directed towards biomedical and biotechnological applications (e.g. applications of atomic force microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and related tools) • Colloid chemistry applied to nanobiotechnology (e.g. cosmetics, suntan lotions, bio-active nanoparticles) • Microtechnologies such as lab-on-chip applied to pharmaceutical, biomedical and biotechnological applications • Techniques for probing cell physiology, cell adhesion sites and cell–cell communication • Molecular self-assembly, including concepts of supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, and DNA nanotechnology • Societal issues such as health and the environment

IET Optoelectronics publishes state-of-the-art research papers in the field of optoelectronics and photonics. Most of the papers published cover original research from universities and industrial and government laboratories. IET Optoelectronics covers: • Optical and optoelectronic materials • Light sources, including LEDs, lasers and devices for lighting • Optical modulation and multiplexing • Optical fibres, cables and connectors • Optical amplifiers • Photodetectors and optical receivers • Photonic integrated circuits • Nanophotonics and photonic crystals • Optical signal processing • Holography • Displays

IET Power Electronics publishes high-quality research that focuses on five principal power electronics themes. Applications of power semiconductor technology for the control and conversion of electric power in: electric machine drives; all forms of transport; manufacturing; heating; lighting; building services and industrial scale power conditioning Circuits commonly used including: all types of converters; inverters; active filters; switched mode power and uninterruptible power supplies Devices used in power electronic applications including: power semiconductor devices; photovoltaic devices; passive components; wound components; batteries and fuses Techniques for controlling, analysing, modelling and/or simulation of power electronics circuits and complete power electronic systems Performance management of power electronic systems including: power factor correction and harmonic spectrum management; thermal management; EMC and noise mitigation; fusing and protection

IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation encompasses the theory and practice of systems relating to the processing of signals for radar, radiolocation, radionavigation and surveillance purposes. Examples of the various fields of application include: radar, sonar, electronic warfare, avionic and navigation systems. Processing directed towards the above application areas includes advances in waveform design, adaptive array and super-resolution methods, tracking algorithms, synthetic aperture, and target recognition techniques.

IET Renewable Power Generation provides a forum for the presentation of new research, development and applications of renewable power generation. It particularly focuses on research that explores issues where the characteristics of the renewable energy source impact on the power conversion and where the wider system control or operation are central to the challenge of integration. It also covers demonstrations and experimentally based research. The journal is technology focused, covering design, demonstration, modelling and analysis, and occasionally also publishes papers dealing with techno-economic issues. IET Renewable Power Generation brings together the topics of renewable energy technology, power generation and systems integration. Specific technology areas covered by the journal include: wind power technology and systems; photovoltaics; solar thermal power generation; geothermal energy; fuel cells; wave power; marine current energy and biomass conversion.

IET Science, Measurement & Technology publishes papers in science, engineering and technology underpinning electronic and electrical engineering, nanotechnology and medical instrumentation. The key topics covered by IET Science, Measurement & Technology are: • Electromagnetism including electromagnetic theory, computational electromagnetics and EMC • Properties and applications of dielectric, magnetic, magneto-optic, and piezoelectric materials down to the nanometre scale • Measurement and instrumentation including sensors, actuators, medical instrumentation, and fundamentals of measurement including measurement standards, uncertainty, dissemination and calibration

IET Signal Processing publishes topics such as algorithm advances in single and multi-dimensional, linear and non-linear, recursive and non-recursive digital filters and multi-rate filter banks. It also covers papers on the application of chaos theory, and neural-network-based approaches to signal processing. Topics covered include: • Advances in single and multi-dimensional filter design and implementation • Linear and nonlinear, fixed and adaptive digital filters and multirate filter banks • Statistical signal processing techniques and analysis • Classical, parametric and higher order spectral analysis • Signal transformation and compression techniques, including time-frequency analysis • System modelling and adaptive identification techniques • Machine learning based approaches to signal processing • Bayesian methods for signal processing, including Monte-Carlo Markov-chain and particle filtering techniques • Theory and application of blind and semi-blind signal separation techniques • Signal processing techniques for analysis, enhancement, coding, synthesis and recognition of speech signals • Direction-finding and beam-forming techniques for audio and electromagnetic signals • Analysis techniques for biomedical signals • Baseband signal processing techniques for transmission and reception of communication signals • Signal processing techniques for data hiding and audio watermarking

IET Software publishes papers on all aspects of the software lifecycle, including design, development, implementation and maintenance. The focus of the journal is on the methods used to develop and maintain software, and their practical application. IET Software covers all aspects of software engineering and places particular emphasis on the following topics: • Software and systems requirements engineering • Formal methods, design methods, practice and experience • Software architecture, aspect and object orientation, reuse and re-engineering • Testing, verification and validation techniques • Software dependability and measurement • Human systems engineering and human–computer interaction • Knowledge engineering, expert and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents • Information systems engineering • Application of software engineering in industry and commerce • Software engineering technology transfer • Management of software development • Theoretical aspects of software development • Education and training, including continuing professional development

IET Systems Biology publishes papers that take a systems and signal-oriented approach to the dynamic interactions within and between cells. It also includes papers that analyse genomic data in order to identify variables, and basic relationships between them, where the results provide a basis for mathematical modelling and simulation of cellular dynamics. IET Systems Biology covers topics including the following: • Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, cells, tissue and the physiome • Molecular and cellular interaction, gene, cell and protein function • Networks and pathways • Metabolism and cell signalling • Dynamics, regulation and control • Systems, signals, and information • Experimental data analysis • Mathematical modelling, simulation and theoretical analysis • Biological modelling, simulation, prediction and control • Methodologies, databases, tools and algorithms for modelling and simulation • Synthetic biology and bioengineering based on systems biology

IET Wireless Sensor Systems covers papers from the growing field of wireless sensor networks and distributed systems, which has been expanding rapidly in recent years and is evolving into a multi-billion dollar industry. It gives a platform to researchers and academics in the field and covers the research, engineering, technological developments, and innovative deployment of distributed sensor and actuator systems. Topics covered include: Theoretical developments of: • Innovative architectures for smart sensors, nano-sensors and actuators • Unstructured networking • Cooperative and clustering distributed sensors • Data fusion for distributed sensors • Distributed intelligence in distributed sensors • Energy harvesting for and lifetime of smart sensors and actuators • Cross-layer design and layer optimisation in distributed sensors • Security, trust and dependability of distributed sensors Innovative services and applications for: • Monitoring: health, traffic, weather and toxins • Surveillance: target tracking and localisation • Observation: global resources and geological activities (Earth, forest,mines, underwater) • Industrial applications of distributed sensors in green and agile manufacturing • Sensor and RFID applications of the Internet-of-Things (‘IoT’) • Smart metering • Machine-to-machine communications