MEMS Accelerometers: Design, Applications and Characterization
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A:Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 13365
Special Issue Editor
Interests: MEMS accelerometers; design; vibration; calibration; characterization; metrology; sensor networks
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, the advent of MEMS technology has led to the possibility of using these types of low-cost and low-power consuming sensors in many fields of engineering and measurement science. In the particular case of vibrations and dynamic motions control, MEMS accelerometers have opened the way to an unprecedented number of applications in many industrial processes, such as smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and the IoT, as well as in many other currently widespread applications, such as environmental, seismic, and infrastructure surveys, navigation and positioning systems, remote surgery and diagnoses, health feedback surveys, and environmental/natural hazards. MEMS accelerometers can also be designed with ad hoc characteristics depending on the application and allow studying large-scale physical phenomena through their aggregation in sensor networks. In all these applications, data quality is of paramount importance; thus, their characterization and calibration is also fundamental to obtain reliable and, in some cases, traceable measurements.
This Special Issue aims to bring together contributions that could highlight the potential of analogue and digital MEMS accelerometers in measuring science and in improving the measurement reliability in applied sciences and engineering.
This invitation for contributions is addressed to manuscripts in the form of research articles, review articles, and case study investigations that combine theoretical research and experimental applications related to the design, modeling, fabrication, calibration, characterization, and use of MEMS accelerometers. Moreover, submissions on real applications and simulations of MEMS accelerometer-based sensor networks in different environments are also invited to this Special Issue.
Dr. Andrea Prato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- MEMS accelerometers
- vibration measurements
- sensor networks
- design of MEMS accelerometers
- MEMS accelerometer calibration and characterization
- MEMS accelerometer-based applications and case studies
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