Announcements

2 December 2022
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications | Special Issue Mentor Program

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program aims to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills as well as to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications Special Issues will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA, ISSN: 2079-9268), from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc.

The mentee’s responsibilities include:

  • Providing a CV, including a list of publications;
  • Proposing a Special Issue title and a short introduction;
  • Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
  • Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue;
  • Reviewing and making decisions on submissions under the mentorship of our Editorial Board Members.

The mentor’s responsibilities include:

  • Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
  • Co-editing the Special Issue with younger scholars and performing quality control of the publications in the Special Issue;
  • Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
  • Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue.

Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and mentees. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the JLPEA Editorial Office (jlpea@mdpi.com), and we will discuss the process (mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, JLPEA continues to welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics as usual.

JLPEA Editorial Office

16 November 2022
Welcoming New Editorial Board Members of the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications

We warmly welcome Dr. Pak Kwong Chan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Dr. Shaahin Angizi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Dr. Xiaoxi Liu (Shinshu University, Japan), Dr. Weigang Wang (University of Arizona, USA), Prof. Dr. Bruno Allard (INSA Lyon, France) and Dr. Chih-Hung Chen (McMaster University, Canada) to the Editorial Board of Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA, ISSN: 2079-9268), and we look forward to their contributions to the continued success of the journal.

Name: Dr. Pak Kwong Chan
Affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Interests: sensor interface ICs; smart sensor systems; low-energy low-noise circuit design; sensor power management ICs; PVT-insensitive circuits and systems

Name: Dr. Shaahin Angizi
Affiliation
: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Interests: accelerator design for big data applications; in-memory computing with volatile & non-volatile memories; adaptive learning for collaborative edge computing; low power and area-efficient in-sensor computing for IoT; hardware security solution for emerging non-volatile memories; low power VLSI circuits

Name: Dr. Xiaoxi Liu
Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
Interests: energy harvesting; magnetic materials; IoT; wireless power transfer

Name: Dr. Weigang Wang
Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Interests: spintronics; magnetism; thin films; magnetic tunnel junctions

Name: Prof. Dr. Bruno Allard
Affiliation: Ampere Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, INSA Lyon, 69621 Villeurbanne, France
Interests: integration of power systems; low-power monolithic converter design

Name: Dr. Chih-Hung Chen
Affiliation: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 3L8, Canada
Interests: high-frequency characterization of deep submicron MOSFETs; noise characterization of BJTs and MOSFETs; ultra-low-power, low-noise analog ICs for telecommunications; analog and RF ICs for wireless transceivers

7 November 2022
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications | Top 10 Cited Articles in 2021

1. “A 0.3 V Rail-to-Rail Ultra-Low-Power OTA with Improved Bandwidth and Slew Rate”
by Francesco Centurelli, Riccardo Della Sala, Pietro Monsurrò, Giuseppe Scotti and Alessandro Trifiletti
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/19

2. “Reliability-Aware Resource Management in Multi-/Many-Core Systems: A Perspective Paper”
by Siva Satyendra Sahoo, Behnaz Ranjbar and Akash Kumar
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/1/7

3. “Low-Power Audio Keyword Spotting Using Tsetlin Machines”
by Jie Lei, Tousif Rahman, Rishad Shafik, Adrian Wheeldon, Alex Yakovlev, Ole-Christoffer Granmo, Fahim Kawsar and Akhil Mathur
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020018
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/18

4. “A Review of Algorithms and Hardware Implementations for Spiking Neural Networks”
by Duy-Anh Nguyen, Xuan-Tu Tran and Francesca Iacopi
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/23

5. “Accelerating Population Count with a Hardware Co-Processor for MicroBlaze”
by Iouliia Skliarova
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020020
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/20

6. “A gm/ID-Based Design Strategy for IoT and Ultra-Low-Power OTAs with Fast-Settling and Large Capacitive Loads”
by Gianluca Giustolisi and Gaetano Palumbo
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/21

7. “A Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture for Hybrid Spiking and Convolutional FPGA-Based Neural Network Designs”
by Hasan Irmak, Federico Corradi, Paul Detterer, Nikolaos Alachiotis and Daniel Ziener
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(3), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11030032
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/3/32

8. “A Novel Standard-Cell-Based Implementation of the Digital OTA Suitable for Automatic Place and Route”
by Gaetano Palumbo and Giuseppe Scotti
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(4), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11040042
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/4/42

9. “Minimization of the Line Resistance Impact on Memdiode-Based Simulations of Multilayer Perceptron Arrays Applied to Pattern Recognition”
by Fernando Leonel Aguirre, Nicolás M. Gomez, Sebastián Matías Pazos, Félix Palumbo, Jordi Suñé and Enrique Miranda
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11010009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/1/9

10. “Analog Filters Design for Improving Precision in Proton Sound Detectors”
by Elia Arturo Vallicelli and Marcello De Matteis
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11010012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/1/12

27 October 2022
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications | Top 10 Cited Articles in 2020

1. “Temperature Compensation Circuit for ISFET Sensor”
by Ahmed Gaddour, Wael Dghais, Belgacem Hamdi and Mounir Ben Ali
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10010002
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/1/2

2. “An Autonomous Low-Power LoRa-Based Flood-Monitoring System”
by Mattia Ragnoli, Gianluca Barile, Alfiero Leoni, Giuseppe Ferri and Vincenzo Stornelli
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(2), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10020015
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/2/15

3. “Rediscovering Majority Logic in the Post-CMOS Era: A Perspective from In-Memory Computing”
by John Reuben
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030028
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/28

4. “Rectifiers’ Design and Optimization for a Dual-Channel RF Energy Harvester”
by Davide Colaiuda, Iolanda Ulisse and Giuseppe Ferri
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(2), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10020011
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/2/11

5. “Simple Scheme for the Implementation of Low Voltage Fully Differential Amplifiers without Output Common-Mode Feedback Network”
by Mario Renteria-Pinon, Jaime Ramirez-Angulo and Alejandro Diaz-Sanchez
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(4), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10040034
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/4/34

6. “Low-Power Embedded System for Gait Classification Using Neural Networks”
by Francisco Luna-Perejón, Manuel Domínguez-Morales, Daniel Gutiérrez-Galán and Antón Civit-Balcells
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(2), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10020014
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/2/14

7. “Accurate Analysis and Design of Integrated Single Input Schmitt Trigger Circuits”
by Mohamed R. Elmezayen, Wei Hu, Amr M. Maghraby, Islam T. Abougindia and Suat U. Ay
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/21

8. “Evaluation of In Vivo Spike Detection Algorithms for Implantable MTA Brain—Silicon Interfaces”
by Mattia Tambaro, Elia Arturo Vallicelli, Gerardo Saggese, Antonio Strollo, Andrea Baschirotto and Stefano Vassanelli
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/26

9. “Power Management Circuits for Low-Power RF Energy Harvesters”
by Michele Caselli, Marco Ronchi and Andrea Boni
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030029
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/29

10. “High-Efficiency Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with Three Decades of Load Current Range Using Adaptively-Biased PFM”
by Anurag Veerabathini and Paul M. Furth
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10010005
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/1/5

26 October 2022
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications Will Receive Its First Impact Factor in 2023


We are very pleased to announce that the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA, ISSN: 2079-9268) will receive its impact factor in June 2023. We want to thank you all for your continued support for the open access JLPEA. More information can be accessed at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/4252.

We would like to extend our gratitude to the authors, editors, and reviewers whose efforts have helped us to achieve this milestone!

For more journal statistics, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jlpea/stats.

28 September 2022
Peer Review Week 2022 – Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.

To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.

We invite you to view the event recording:

During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:

In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.

You can find the Podcast here.

We hope you enjoy the contents!

11 July 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Best Paper Awards in “Engineering”—Winners Announced

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The academic editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal.

We are honored to present the winners in the “Engineering” category, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

Actuators:

Batteries:

Chemosensors:

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering:

Lubricants:

Micromachines:

Processes:

Sensors:

World Electric Vehicle Journal:

11 July 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Young Investigator Awards in “Engineering—Winners Announced

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Engineering” category. The winners were selected by the journals’ editors.

We warmly congratulate the awarded Young Investigators for their outstanding contributions. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Biosensors:

  • Amay J. Bandodkar, North Carolina State University, USA.

ChemEngineering:

  • Andrew S. Paluch, Miami University, USA.

Chemosensors:

  • Mindy Levine, Ariel University, Israel.

Electronics:

  • Amir H. Gandomi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering:

  • Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, University of Porto, Portugal.

Machines:

  • Chen Lv, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore;
  • Ignacio Gonzalez-Prieto, University of Malaga (UMA), Spain;
  • Ning Sun, Nankai University, China.

Processes:

  • Anton Rassõlkin, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.

Sensors:

  • Qammer H. Abbasi, Queen Mary University of London, UK;
  • Chi Hwan Lee, Purdue University, USA.

11 July 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in “Engineering”—Winners Announced

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the “Engineering” category for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of this year’s Travel Awards and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Actuators:

  • Matthew Wei Ming Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Applied Sciences:

  • Márcia de Sousa Oliveira, University of León, Spain;
  • Caroline Sarah Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK;
  • Raquel Viveiros, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Alfonso González Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain;
  • Alen Horvat, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain;
  • Marie Švecová, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic;
  • Venanzio Giannella, University of Salerno, Italy;
  • Michaël Lobet, University of Namur, Belgium;
  • Lam Thi Ngoc Tran, National Research Council, Italy;
  • Hanfei Mei, University of South Carolina, USA.

Applied System Innovation:

  • Mert Nakip, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Biosensors:

  • Mengdi Bao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA;

Yichi Su, Stanford University, USA.

Buildings:

  • Karthik Panchabikesan, Concordia University, Canada;
  • Xiaolei Yuan, Tongji University, China.

Chemosensors:

  • Verónica Montes García, Université de Strasbourg & CNRS, France.

Electronics:

  • Peng Hang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;
  • Alfonso González Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain.

Fluids:

  • Alberto Zingaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
  • Sarah E. Morris, Auburn University, USA.

Infrastructures:

  • Angelo Aloisio, University of L’Aquila, Italy;
  • André Filipe Castanheira Alves Furtado, University of Porto, Portugal.

Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications:

  • Tommaso Zanotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing:

  • Nagalingam Arun Prasanth, Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab, Singapore.

Machines:

  • Muhammad Jamil, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China;
  • Mariagrazia Tristano, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Processes:

  • Michele Schlich, University of Cagliari, Italy;
  • Álvaro Santana Mayor, University of La Laguna, Spain.

Sensors:

  • Eleonora Macchia, Åbo Akademi University, Finland;
  • Alfonso Gonzalez Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain;
  • Saúl Vallejos Calzada, University of Burgos, Spain;
  • Ana Novo, University of Vigo, Spain;
  • Yalin Liu, Macau University of Science and Technology, China;
  • Marilena Giglio, Politecnico of Bari, Italy;
  • Yuzhi Shi, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

11 July 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Awards in “Engineering”—Winners Announced

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2021 in the “Engineering category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievement. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Actuators:

  • Ryszard Dindorf, Kielce University of Technology, Poland.

Applied Sciences:

  • Khaled Giasin, University of Portsmouth, UK;
  • Jakub Krzysztof Grabski, University of Technology, Poland;
  • Marcos Tostado-Véliz, University of Jaén, Spain;
  • Luigi Pugliese, University of Calabria, Italy;
  • Francesco Bennardo, University of Catanzaro, Italy;
  • Heriberto Perez-Acebo, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.

Biosensors:

  • Amir Hatamie, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Buildings:

  • Francesco Fiorito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy;
  • Paul G. O’Brien, York University, Canada.

Chemosensors:

  • Verónica Montes García, University of Strasbourg, France.

Machines:

  • Piotr Gierlak, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland;
  • Sebastian A. Nugroho, University of Michigan, USA;
  • Viorel Paleu, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania.

Processes:

  • Marcin Dębowski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland;
  • Bartłomiej Zieniuk, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland;
  • Zbigniew Nadolny, Poznan University of Technology, Poland;
  • Attila Egedy, University of Pannonia, Hungary;
  • Seok-Ho Rhi, Chungbuk National University, Korea.

Sensors:

  • Hojong Choi, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea;
  • Li Fu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China;
  • Leonardo De Mello Honorio, Federal University of Juiz De Fora Juiz De Fora, Brazil;
  • Mario Versaci, Mediterranea University, Italy;
  • Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

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