Editorial

This month marks a turning point in our new journal. We now have accumulated a paper queue that extends beyond our upcoming issue. This is a good indication that our readership is growing, and we are increasing our reach into the wider THz community. Note that the print release queue does not impact the electronic postings, and authors can still expect to see their unpaginated articles on IEEEXplore as soon as they are completed and proofread. Our March 2013 issue contains regular paper contributions only. These span topics from submillimeter-wave CMOS circuits to an RF model of human skin at 450 GHz while this month´s THz Pioneer article takes us to Japan for the first time, where we hear from one of the first THz researchers and advocates in Asia, Professor Koji Mizuno, from Tohoku University, Sendai.