Selected Papers from ICI2017 and Spintech Thesis Awards
A special issue of Inventions (ISSN 2411-5134). This special issue belongs to the section "Inventions and Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2018) | Viewed by 56033
Special Issue Editor
Interests: high precision instrument design; laser engineering; smart sensors and actuators; optical device; optical measurement; metrology
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will select the papers from ICI2017 (2017 3rd International Conference on Inventions, http://sciforum.net/conference/ICI2017) and Spintech Thesis Awards. The aims and scope of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Inventions is to make researchers focus on patent-based research. Papers with innovative ideas in all aspects of science and engineering are also encouraged in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Chien-Hung Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Invention and innovation in advanced manufacturing
- Invention/innovation in applied optics and lasers
- Invention/innovation in devices, sensors and actuators
- Invention/innovation in energy and thermal/fluidic science
- Invention/innovation in biotechnology/materials
- Invention/innovation surface science/ nanotechnology technology
- Invention/innovation in design/modeling/computing methods
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