Announcements

Dear colleagues,

We are accepting applications for the Electronics 2021 Travel Award, to be presented to two postdoctoral fellows to attend a conference in 2021. The award will be amount of CHF 800 (Swiss francs), to partially cover the transportation costs to a conference of the applicant’s choice.

All nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee composed of senior scholars in the field.

Candidate Requirements:

– Must be a postdoctoral fellow within the research field of electronics.
– Will participate in an international conference in 2021 (poster or oral presentation).
– Will be asked to acknowledge the support of the journal Electronics during their presentation.

Required Documents:

– An abstract and conference details (no more than one page).
– A CV (no more than three pages), including a one-page statement from the candidate describing their research interests and a list of publications.
– A letter of recommendation from their supervisor or principal investigator (PI). The supervisor or PI should sign and confirm that the applicant fulfills all of the above requirements.

Please submit your application at the following link (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards/submit/966) by 28 February 2021.

The winner of this award will be announced on the journal website on 31 March 2021.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to launch the 2021 Electronics Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to a young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the research field of electronics and its applications.

All nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars in the field.

Candidate Eligibility and Requirements:

– Must have received a Ph.D. degree within the past 10 years within the scope of Electronics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/about).
– Must be 40 years of age or under (as of 31 December 2020).

List of Documents Needed for Application:

– A detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants.
– A detailed publication list from 2020, including authors, titles, and journals.
– A list of conferences that the candidate attended in 2020 as well as the research results presented.
– A scanned copy of the candidate’s doctorate certificate.
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

The Award:

– CHF 1800 (Swiss francs).
– An offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Electronics.
– A certificate.

The candidates should be nominated by a senior expert in the field rather than send applications themselves. The letter should highlight their achievements and contributions to the field. Additional references will be requested by the committee if necessary.

Candidate nomination application materials should be submitted via the link (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards/submit/967).

We welcome nominations for this award until 28 February 2021.

The winner will be announced on the Electronics website by the end of March 2021.

MDPI is proud to adopt the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications.

The C4DISC represents organizations and individuals working in scholarly communications and is focused on addressing issues of diversity and inclusion within the publishing industry.

MDPI’s Managing Editors encourage the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors to appoint diverse expert Editorial Boards. This is also reflective in our multi-national and inclusive workplace. We are proud to create equal opportunities without regard to gender, ethnicity, geographic location, sexual orientation, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination in our workplace and editors of MDPI journals are to uphold these principles in high regard.

Representatives from C4DISC meet monthly, and have started to implement initiatives to shed light and improve on the lack of diversity in scholarly communications. Some of the initiatives include developing a joint statement of principles; conducting market research; providing training resources, best practices, toolkits, and documentation for our collective memberships; and establishing outreach programs, curricula, events, and publications.

The Coalition is committed to:

• eliminating barriers to participation, extending equitable opportunities across all stakeholders, and ensuring that our practices and policies promote equitable treatment and do not allow, condone, or result in discrimination;
• creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences;
• promoting diversity in all staff, volunteers, and audiences, including full participation in programs, policy formulation, and decision-making;
• raising awareness about career opportunities in our industries to groups who are currently underrepresented in the workforce;
• supporting our members in achieving diversity and inclusion within their organizations.

At MDPI we have slightly revised the layout for articles to be published in the 2021 Volume, starting at the end of December 2020. As of today, the article templates available for download on ‘Instructions for Authors’ pages have been updated.

The most noticeable change can be found on the first page of the article, where a left-hand column has been created to include the following front matter elements: (i) the recommended citation style for the article, (ii) the publishing history, (iii) as well as the Creative Commons Attribution license used (iv) a standard note regarding affiliations. At the same time, the extra spacing on the left means the authors’ affiliations are now more clearly set apart than before. Other front matter key elements such as journal logo, article type, article title, authors, abstract and keywords remain unchanged.

The blank column on the left runs through all pages in an article; as a result, the main text is slightly more condensed, which improve reader friendliness for smaller screens. Small figures/tables are aligned on the left with standard indenture, while large figures/tables are centered and covering the full width of the page. The revised layout was applied in the article pictured below, to serve as an example:

1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.

2) In the main text, there is a blank column on the left.

3) Small tables/figures are aligned on the left, large tables/figures are centered.

We are pleased to acknowledge that many academic editors who have made an impact on MDPI journals as editorial board members, editors-in-chief, or section editors, are recognized as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.

Highly Cited Researchers highlights the top 1% of researchers, by citations, in one or more of the 22 fields used in Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators. We offer our congratulations to 279 academic editors of MDPI journals who were recognized as the most influential scholars in their fields in 2020.

The full list of 2020 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed on https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

This webinar will address issues related to 5G and beyond, allow our incredible Principal Investigators to share their personal scientific stories, and provide our audience with the opportunity to ask questions and directly connect with scientists involved in 5G.

Date: 19 November 2020

Time: 3:00 pm (CET)

Webinar ID: 984 1509 5815

Register for free here: https://sciforum.net/conference/electronics-2

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano

EBM of Section “Networks” of Electronics

Interests: network virtualization; IP mobility management; wireless experimentation; cloud computing and vehicular communications

Speaker 1

Dr. Ömer Bulakci (Nokia Bell Labs)

Topic: Role of 5GPPP Architecture WG toward B5G/6G System

Dr. Ömer Bulakci is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, Munich, Germany, and Vice-Chairman of the 5GPPP Architecture Working Group (WG). He has received B.Sc. (METU, Turkey, 2006), M.Sc. (TUM, Germany, 2008), and doctorate (Aalto University, Finland, 2013) degrees. He worked at Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany, on LTE-A relaying (2009–2012) in support of his doctorate studies. From 2012 to February 2020, he conducted research toward the 5G system, contributed to EU flagship projects METIS, METIS-II (leading a work package on RAN synchronous control plane design), and 5G-MoNArch (leading a work package on overall architecture and E2E network slicing), and contributed to 5G standardization (3GPP Releases 15, 16, and 17) at Huawei GRC, Germany. He is an author or co-author of 75+ technical publications (including 5G book chapters and editorship) and an inventor of 50+ patents/patent applications. His research interests comprise network slicing, industrial IoT, RRM, dynamic network topology, and system design and performance analysis of mobile networks.

Speaker 2

Dr. Alain Mourad (InterDigital Labs)

Topic: On the Path to 6G: Target Capabilities and Technology Trends

Alain Mourad has 18+ years of experience in wireless communications industrial R&D. He is currently a Director Engineering R&D at InterDigital Labs in London (UK), leading research and innovation for 5G and beyond radio access networks. Prior to joining InterDigital, from 2007 to 2014, Alain was a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D (London, UK), where he led research and standardization efforts with a focus on ATSC 3.0, DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH, and WiMAX IEEE 802.16m. From 2002 to 2007, he was a Senior Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe (Rennes, France), where he contributed technology development toward HSPA+ and 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced (4G). Alain is a prolific inventor with over 50 issued patents and several additional pending applications. He is a thought leader who has participated in numerous talks, panels, and publications. Alain has received several awards, notably the Inventor of the Year Award from Samsung Electronics R&D in 2012 and 2013, InterDigital Innovation Awards in 2016 and 2018, and the 2018 Global Telecoms Awards “Highly Commended” in the category “Advancing the Road to 5G”.

Speaker 3

Dr. Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (CTTC)

Topic: Network Architectures for 5G and Beyond

Josep Mangues-Bafalluy has been a Senior Researcher and Head of the Communication Networks Division of the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalunya (CTTC) since 2013, a division that is currently composed of 30 researchers. He has a degree (1996) and a PhD (2003) in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) and over 20 years of experience in the networks field (including mobile networks, application of machine learning to network optimization, testbed design and deployment, and network function virtualization). Josep has held various roles (including leadership) in several publicly funded and industrial research projects (e.g., 5GPPP 5Growth, 5G-Transformer, and Spanish 5G-REFINE), with a recent emphasis on adapting network infrastructures to the needs of vertical industries (e.g., automotive/transportation, industry 4.0, media, eHealth) and automated network management. He has published 120+ international journal articles and conference papers. He was Vice-Chair of IEEE WCNC 2018 (Barcelona). He was also a Researcher and Assistant Professor at UPC from 1996 to 2003.

For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to electronics.webinar@mdpi.com

Dear Scientists, Researchers, and Authors,

We are delighted to announce that IEC 2020 is now open for discussions at:
https://iec2020.sciforum.net

Discussions will be open from 1 to 30 November.

As some of you have already learned, you will now be able to interact with other conference participants via the several functions on Sciforum, which can be accessed and used once you log in. Leave your comments on articles directly at the conference website, select your favorite papers and collect them on your user profile, rate papers you have read, and most of all, SHARE your thoughts and comments among your peers on the conference page! Please find a short overview of all the means of interaction and functions at
http://sciforum.net/file/download/UserInterfaceAndFunctions.pdf.

Extended and expanded versions of conference proceedings papers can be submitted to Special Issue “Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference – Futuristic Applications on Electronics” in the journal Electronics, with a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges.

Please note that we will present awards for the best paper (2 winners), best poster (2 winners), and best presentation (1 winner), as selected by the organizers. The Best Paper Awards will consist of 400 Swiss francs. The Best Poster Awards will consist of 300 Swiss francs. The Best Presentation Award will consist of 200 Swiss francs.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your input, and hope you enjoy the conference and make the most of it!

We look forward to your contributions and discussions.

This Special Issue is edited by Prof. Dr. Juan Monzó-Cabrera, Prof. Dr. Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo, and Prof. Dr. Lozano-Guerrero Antonio. The aim of this Special Issue was to collect the latest advances on microwave and RF applicator design in different areas.

Potential topics in microwave and RF applicator design areas include but are not limited to the following:

• New design techniques for monomode and multimode cavities;
• Design of applicators and components for specific applications in food, waste management, medical, biological or chemical/biochemical fields, etc.;
• Emerging technologies such as solid-state applicators;
• New EM modeling and numerical techniques;
• Microwave plasma applicators and processing (CVD, cleaning, nanoparticles, etc.);
• Microwave component design and optimization: filters, stirrers, circulators, matching devices, etc.;
• Frequency sources and power supply design
• Electronics and microwave devices for microwave-heating and drying monitoring;
• Design and optimization of multimode feeding: leaky-wave antennas, slotted waveguides, multiport optimization, etc;
• Design of new radiofrequency applicators and components.

Moreover, this SI is cooperated by the 18^th International Conference on Microwave and High-Frequency Applications: AMPERE 2021, it will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 13–16 September 2021. Selected papers from AMPERE 2021 and all the external contributions in this filed are welcome in this Special Issue.

Submission deadline: 15 October 2021

For more information, please refer to the Special Issue and conference website.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/RF_Applicator

https://www.ampere2021.com/

Submission guidelines:

Submission: link: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/09be35b81f092405c365adeecdae7795?form%5Bjournal_id%5D=127&form%5Bspecial_issue_id%5D=63806

Instructions for authors:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/instructions

A template /Word/ file:
https://www.mdpi.com/files/word-templates/electronics-template.dot

A template /Latex/ file:
https://www.mdpi.com/authors/latex.

If you have any questions, please contact riley.wang@mdpi.com/ electronics@mdpi.com

Dear authors and readers of Electronics,

Electronics would like to introduce a new feature, called "Editor's Choice Articles", which highlight outstanding papers published in the journal. These are selected by the editors, and include original articles which make important and impactful findings, as well as review articles that are excellently written. With this feature, readers can expect timely and useful highlights of recent articles in the journal, and deserving authors would receive more attention on their excellent contributions. We hope that this feature will enhance your reading pleasure and experience with Electronics.

This webinar will address matters related to Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, allowing our incredible principal investigators to share their personal stories of science, and provide our audience with the opportunity to ask questions and connect with AI scientists directly.

Date: 28 October 2020

Time: 11:00 a.m. (CEST)丨5:00 a.m. (EDT)丨17:00 p.m. (CST ASIA)

Webinar ID: 861 1225 4623

Register for Free Here: https://sciforum.net/conference/Electronics-1

Chair: Prof. D.Sc. Valeri Mladenov

Editorial Board Member of “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)”

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sectioneditors/AICAS

Interests: artificial intelligence; circuits and systems; electronics; power systems; smart grids; mathematical modeling; control theory and applications

Speaker 1. Prof. Huai Wang

Huai Wang is currently a Professor with the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE), and the Vice Leader of the Efficient and Reliable Power Electronics Research Program at Aalborg University. He has contributed more than 100 journal papers and co-edited a book on the Reliability of Power Electronic Converter Systems in 2015. He has given 25 tutorials at leading power electronics conferences (e.g., PCIM Europe, APEC, ECCE, etc.), and more than 80 invited talks. 

Presentation: The Application of AI for Condition and Health Monitoring of Power Electronic Converters

Speaker 2. Prof. Georgi Radulov

Editorial Board Member of “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)”

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sectioneditors/AICAS

Interests: RF and mm-wave transmitters and receivers; phased arrays; Nyquist and sigma–delta data converters; built-in-self-testing

Presentation: Artificial Intelligence in Modern Redundant Systems

For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to aicas2020@mdpi.com