Special Issue "Metal-Oxide Based Nanosensors"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Laszlo B. Kish
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College Station, Texas A&M University, TX 77843, USA
Website: http://www.ece.tamu.edu/People/bios/bkish.php
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Interests: fluctuation-enhanced chemical sensing; fluctuation-enhanced biological sensing; vibration-induced conductance fluctuation (VICOF) analysis of soils; noise-based logic and computing; unconditionally secure computers, hardware, memories and algorithms; unconditionally secure classical communication and networks; stealth communication

Guest Editor
Dr. Gabor Schmera
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego CA 92152-5001, USA
E-Mail: gabe.schmera@navy.mil

Dear Colleagues,

Going to the nanoscales changes the characteristic material properties, and characteristic lengths/timescales of dominant interactions. In metal-oxide based nanosensors, these effects have resulted in higher sensing-information-channel-capacity that includes increased sensitivity, higher selectivity, and increased speed. Room temperature applications allow low-power devices.

In this special issue, the metal-oxide based sensor structures of interest include: nanoparticles, nanolayers, nanowires, thin films with nanostructures, functionalization, nanoscale coating and phases, nanocomposites, carbon nanotube - oxide systems, catalytic metal - oxide junctions, etc. Among others, the following sub-topics are of interest:

• Fabrication, design, methodology
• Characterization, physical, chemical and sensing properties
• Transduction mechanism: resistance, field-effect, thermoelectric, photoelectric, fluctuation-statistics, etc.
• Reproducibility, sensitivity, selectivity
• Recognition principle and sensor signal processing: information-enhancement, linear and nonlinear filtering, pattern recognition, fluctuation-enhanced sensing, etc.
• Applications: environmental, medical, food, defense, etc.
• Agent-specific sensors and electronic noses
• Sensing at room temperatures and other ways of reducing power requirements

Prof. Dr. Laszlo B. Kish
Dr. Gabor Schmera
Guest Editors

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• nanoparticles
• nanolayers
• nanowires
• thin films with nanostructures
• functionalization
• nanoscale coating and phases
• nanocomposites
• carbon nanotube - oxide systems
• catalytic metal - oxide junctions