Electronic Sensors
Section Information
The Electronic Sensors Section publishes original research contributions on sensor devices and sensing systems based on or related to electronic principles, technologies, and techniques.
The Section’s scope includes electronic sensors and the associated electronic circuits and signals, addressing all electronic elements that form devices used to sense a physical, chemical, or other kind of quantity and convert it into an electrical signal.
Submitted papers should focus on the design of innovative sensor devices and electrical and electronic circuitry configurations for the development of sensor systems, including interfaces, chips, SoC implementation, etc. Novel approaches for smart sensors and advances in electronic transduction mechanisms, enabling enhancements in selectivity, sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio, dynamic range, and miniaturization, as well as the detection of novel measurands, fall within the scope of the Section. Furthermore, the applications of electronic sensors to a range of relevant challenges are highly important and fall within the scope of the Section.
Keywords
- Electronic Sensors, Devices, and Systems
- Current/voltage/impedance sensors, magnetic sensors, acoustic sensors, image sensors, photodetectors, radars and radiometers, etc.
- Microelectronic sensors, mechatronics, microelectromechanical, MEMS, piezoelectric, piezoresistive, triboelectric, optoelectronic, thermoelectric, CMOS sensors, etc.
- Radio frequency sensors, microchip, antennas, radio receiver and transmitter, PCB, etc.
- Innovative sensor technologies such as those based on additive manufacturing, 3D printing, deposition processes using nonconventional materials and substrates.
- Edge AI for sensor systems, cloud/edge architectures for sensor data, TinyML, and on-device learning.
- Sensor Electronics
- Sensor electronic interfaces, front-end electronics.
- Analog/Digital/Mixed/RF/ integrated circuit design, readout circuits, rectifier circuits, VLSI circuits.
- Microwave and mm-wave circuits for sensors.
- SoC-based sensor electronics: FPGA, MCU, etc.
- Electronics for data acquisition and signal processing in relation to sensors and their operation.
- Models for sensor circuit simulation.
- Neuromorphic sensor electronics.
- Sensor characterization circuits and methods, hardware implementation, and performance analysis.
- Circuits and techniques for power consumption reduction in sensor devices, low-power electronics, and energy harvesting for sensors.
- Sensors Signal Processing
- Analog signal processing: Electronic circuits, radio, telephone, radar, and television systems.
- Digital signal processing: Digital circuits, ASICs, FPGAs, DSP chips.
- Audio, image, video signal processing, compression, and analysis.
- Wireless communications: Statistical channel modeling, waveform generation, filtering, optimal receiver design, modulation, and demodulation techniques.
- Array processing: Sensors
- antennas, radar, sonar, acoustic, anti-jamming and wireless communications, seismic exploration.
- Signal quality improvement: Noise reduction, image enhancement, and echo cancellation.
- Computer vision: Pattern recognition, digital geometry, and signal processing.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) for sensors and within sensors.
- Internet of Things (IoT) sensor nodes, wireless sensor networks (WSN), and LPWAN sensor systems (LoRa, NB-IoT, etc.).
- Potential Applications
- Electrical power & energy systems, self-powered sensors, low-power devices, semiconductor devices.
- Advanced electromechanical systems and control applications.
- Electronic packaging.
- Flexible/stretchable/printed electronics and sensors.
- Multi-sensor fusion.
- Wearable sensors.
- Biomedical and surgery.
- Artificial senses, including electronic tongues and electronic noses.
- Emergencies and alerts.
- Verification and recognition.
- Automotive sensors.
- Structural health monitoring.
- Instrumentation and measurement.
Published Papers
Sensors - ISSN 1424-8220