Emerging Optoelectronic Techniques for Spectroscopic Sensing
A Special Issue of Optoelectronics (ISSN 3043-1700).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 August 2027
Editors
Interests: silicon photonics; optical sensing; optoelectronic instrument
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Spectroscopic sensing offers unique molecular fingerprinting capabilities and underpins environmental monitoring, biomedical diagnosis, agricultural quality testing and industrial on‑site analysis. Traditional sensing technologies are usually bulky, costly, hard to integrate monolithically, and lack specificity, restricting their use. Recent advances in optoelectronics pave the way toward miniaturized, low-power, cost-efficient spectral sensors. This Special Issue targets cutting‑edge progress of emerging optoelectronic techniques for spectroscopic sensing. It welcomes original research and review articles reporting state-of-the-art achievements, discussing major bottlenecks, inspiring interdisciplinary innovation, and promoting the practical translation of next-generation spectroscopic sensing technologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Low‑dimensional and novel functional optoelectronic materials for sensing;
On‑chip spectrometers and integrated silicon‑photonic sensing devices;
Metasurfaces and nanostructured spectral sensors;
Novel photodetectors for high‑sensitivity spectroscopic measurement;
AI algorithms for miniaturized sensing systems;
System integration and practical applications of emerging optoelectronic spectroscopic sensors.
Prof. Dr. Zhenzhou Cheng
Dr. Jiaqi Wang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- sensing
- spectrometers
- silicon photonics
- nanophotonics
- optical materials
- AI algorithms
- photodetectors
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