Low-Power Electronics and System Integration for Next-Generation Computing
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The relentless scaling of CMOS technology continues to drive innovations in low-power electronic devices and circuits. With traditional CMOS scaling quickly approaching its fundamental limits for power–performance improvement, emerging device technologies, circuit techniques, and related system architectures offer transformative pathways to break the energy-efficiency barrier. These advances are particularly critical for next-generation applications—including edge AI computing, IoT/wearable devices, and unmanned autonomous systems—where extreme energy constraints demand revolutionary solutions at the device, circuit, and system levels.
This Special Issue seeks to showcase cutting-edge research in low-power electronics and system integration for next-generation computing. We welcome contributions ranging from novel nanodevice structures and energy-efficient circuits to their system-level integration in emerging computing platforms such as embedded AI systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, 2D materials, ultra-low-power memory devices, non-charge-based devices, energy-scavenging circuits, and the integration of nanodevices in in-memory computing, 3D architectures, and non-Von Neumann architectures.
We look forward to your contributions to shaping the future of energy-efficient electronic devices, circuits, and systems.
Dr. Lei Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- low-power electronics
- energy-efficient circuits
- energy scavenging
- in-memory computing
- 3D architectures
- non-Von Neumann architectures
- embedded AI systems
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