Design and Applications of Fractional-Order Circuits and Filters
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fractional calculus; analysis methods for fractional order circuits; design methods for fractional order circuits; circuit theory; circuits and systems for signal processing; analog filters; analog integrated circuits; fault analysis in analog filters
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Interests: fractional-order circuits and systems; analog integrated circuits; fractional-order biomedical circuits; fractional-order filters
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The emerging field of fractional-order circuits and systems, which leverages concepts of non-integer order differentiation and integration, is the topic of this Special Issue. The advantage of its application in real-world systems is in its more realistic and accurate modeling capabilities. It is being explored across many fields of science and engineering, including analog filters, oscillators, and control systems. It is also widely used to model the electrical characteristics of biological tissue, energy storage devices (e.g., supercapacitors and batteries), and electrochemical systems. The fractional order provides additional flexibility, offering an extra degree of freedom in the design. Since we will be concentrating on analog design, analog integrated circuits, and field-programmable analog arrays (FPAA), they find applications in the design of fractional-order circuits and systems. Additionally, the use of MATLAB Simulink and OpenModelica as design tools is highly recommended for modeling fractional-order systems.
The focus of this Special Issue is to continue to advance research on topics relating to the theory, design, implementation, and application of fractional-order circuits and systems. Topics that are invited for submission include (but are not limited to):
- fractional-order circuit theory;
- fractional-order filter and oscillator designs and realizations;
- fractional-order control systems and implementation;
- analog approximations for the realization of fractional-order systems;
- active and passive designs of fractional-order elements;
- applications of fractional-order circuit models for biology and biomedicine, and the food industry;
- applications of fractional-order approach in electrochemistry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy;
- applications of fractional-order circuit models for energy storage elements.
Prof. Dr. Dražen Jurišić
Prof. Dr. Costas Psychalinos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cauer and Foster networks
- fractional-order circuit theory
- fractional-order control systems
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