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A section of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Section Information
In the Physical Section of Sensors, original peer-reviewed papers covering all aspects of Physical Sensing will be published. Both theoretical and experimental papers will be considered, as well as review papers. Subjects include without being limited to, electrical and thermal-based sensors, mass-sensitive and fiber-optic sensors, optoelectronic and photonic sensors, gas sensors, physical sensor applications for food industry and environmental monitoring, physical sensor arrays, modeling, design and software for physical sensors, sensor technology and new physical sensor principles. In general, the Section provides a platform for the publication of original and scientific research that is likely to have a large general impact, also with the aim of initiating special issues.
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Advance in Sensors and Sensing Systems for Driving and Transport (Deadline: 30 June 2019)
- Advance in Sensors and Sensing Systems for Healthcare and Convalescence (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Advanced CMOS Image Sensors and Emerging Applications (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Advances in FRP Composites: Applications, Sensing, and Monitoring (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Advances on Sensor Pattern Noise used in Multimedia Forensics and Counter Forensic (Deadline: 31 July 2019)
- Artificial Intelligence and Sensors (Deadline: 20 January 2019)
- Bragg Grating Sensors (Deadline: 15 July 2019)
- Camera Identification on Mobile Devices (Deadline: 15 August 2019)
- Cantilever Sensor (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- CMOS Smart Temperature Sensors (Deadline: 30 May 2019)
- Deployment and Navigation of Aerial Drones for Surveillance and Monitoring (Deadline: 15 August 2019)
- Depth Sensors and 3D Vision (Deadline: 20 December 2018)
- Diffractive Optical Sensors (Deadline: 10 January 2019)
- Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Electronic Noses and Their Application (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Energy Harvester Sensing (Deadline: 15 October 2019)
- FBG Based Sensors (Deadline: 30 June 2020)
- Fiber Coupled Optical Resonator-Based Devices (Deadline: 20 July 2019)
- Fiber Optic Sensors for Industrial Applications (Deadline: 1 March 2019)
- Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural and Geotechnical Monitoring (Deadline: 30 June 2019)
- Flexible and Stretchable Piezoelectric Devices for Mechanical Sensing and Energy Harvesting (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Gyroscopes and Accelerometers (Deadline: 20 September 2019)
- Humans as Sensors–Cross-Disciplinary Approaches Towards Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Responses in Humanitarian Action (Deadline: 30 June 2019)
- Humidity Sensors: Advances in Reliability, Calibration and Application (Deadline: 30 December 2018)
- Industrial Terahertz Sensing Applications (Deadline: 1 September 2019)
- Inertial Sensors for Activity Recognition and Classification (Deadline: 15 June 2019)
- Infrared Sensors and Technologies (Deadline: 30 April 2019)
- Integrated Microfluidic CMOS (imCMOS) Sensors and Actuators for Life Science Applications (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Laser Sensors for Displacement, Distance and Position (Deadline: 20 February 2019)
- Last Advances in Plasmonic Sensing (Deadline: 15 July 2019)
- Magnetic Sensing Technology, Materials and Applications (Deadline: 30 July 2019)
- Materials, Designs, and Manufacturing Innovations for Bio-Integrated Sensors and Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2019)
- Mechatronic Systems for Automatic Vehicles (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- MEMS Sensors and Resonators (Deadline: 30 May 2019)
- Micro-Nano Systems Technology and Micro-Nano Intelligent Manufacture (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Micromachined Flow Sensors (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Millimeter Wave and THz Integrated Systems and Radar Sensors (Deadline: 31 May 2019)
- Multi-Modal Sensors for Human Behavior Monitoring (Deadline: 15 July 2019)
- Multiple Object Tracking: Making Sense of the Sensors (Deadline: 15 February 2019)
- Nano and MEMS Sensors (Deadline: 20 March 2019)
- Near-Field Communication (NFC) Sensors (Deadline: 31 July 2019)
- Novel Modeling, Signal Processing and Machine Learning Techniques for Sensor Data (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Optical Fiber Sensors: Development and Applications (Deadline: 31 May 2019)
- Optical Sensing and Imaging, from UV to THz Range (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Optical Sensing Based on Microscale Devices (Deadline: 30 June 2019)
- Optical Sensors Using Microstructured and Photonics Crystal Fibers (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
- Optoelectronic and Photonic Sensors (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Optomechanical Sensors (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Passive Electromagnetic Sensors for Autonomous Wireless Networks (Deadline: 20 February 2019)
- Piezoelectric Transducers: Advances in Structural Health Monitoring (Deadline: 30 April 2019)
- Polymeric Sensors (Deadline: 21 March 2019)
- Printed Sensors (Deadline: 15 October 2019)
- Quartz Tuning Fork-based Sensors (Deadline: 20 March 2019)
- Recent Advances in Array Processing for Wireless Applications (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Recent Advances of Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Refractive index sensors (Deadline: 15 January 2020)
- Resonator Sensors 2018 (Deadline: 20 December 2018)
- RF Technology for Sensor Applications (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Selected Papers from 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC 2018) (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Selected Papers from 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2018 (APWSHM 2018) (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Selected Papers from IEEE ICICE 2018 (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Selected Papers from IEEE ICKII 2018 (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Selected Papers from IEEE ICKII 2019-- (Deadline: 30 November 2019)
- Selected Papers from the 18th International Conference on Mechatronics-Mechatronika 2018 (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Selected Papers from the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2018) (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Selected Papers from the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Selected papers from the 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (Deadline: 20 October 2019)
- Selected papers from the 2019 IEEE International Worshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT (Deadline: 20 October 2019)
- Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE 2019) and Symposium on Plasma and Nuclear Systems (SPANS 2019) (Deadline: 31 October 2019)
- Selected Papers from the 9th World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography (Deadline: 15 March 2019)
- Selected Papers from the NANOfIM 2018: 4th International Conference on Nanotechnology for Instrumentation and Measurement (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Selected Papers from TIKI ICICE 2018 (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
- Semiconductor and CMOS-Based Sensors for Environmental Monitoring (Deadline: 30 March 2019)
- Sensing in Oil and Gas Applications (Deadline: 31 December 2019)
- Sensor Applications on Built Environment (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
- Sensor Applications on Face Analysis (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Sensor Fusion in Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics (Deadline: 15 June 2019)
- Sensors and Materials for Harsh Environments (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Sensors Based NDE and NDT (Deadline: 31 May 2020)
- Sensors for Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis (Deadline: 30 September 2019)
- Sensors for Emerging Environmental Markers and Contaminants (Deadline: 30 April 2019)
- Sensors for Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance (Deadline: 20 February 2019)
- Sensors for Gait, Posture, and Health Monitoring (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Sensors for MEMS and Microsystems (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Sensors for Precision Dimensional Metrology (Deadline: 30 September 2019)
- Sensors for Prognostics and Health Management (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Sensors for Transportation Systems (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
- Sensors in Dentistry (Deadline: 15 November 2019)
- Sensors to Manage Chronic Complications (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Smart Material Sensors (Deadline: 31 July 2019)
- Smart Sensors and Smart Structures (Deadline: 21 January 2019)
- Soft Sensors (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
- Soft Sensors for Motion Capture and Analysis (Deadline: 19 July 2019)
- Soft Sensors: Inference and Estimation (Deadline: 15 April 2019)
- Solid-State pH Sensors (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2018 (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Structural Health Monitoring Using Carbon Nanotube Yarn-Based Sensors (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
- Surface Acoustic Wave and Bulk Acoustic Wave Sensors 2019 (Deadline: 30 September 2019)
- Tactile Sensors for Robotic Applications (Deadline: 31 October 2019)
- Temperature Sensors (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
- Time of Flight (TOF) Cameras (Deadline: 20 August 2019)
- UHF and RF Sensor Technology for Partial Discharge Detection (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Ultrasound Transducers (Deadline: 1 February 2019)
- Video Analysis and Tracking Using State-of-the-Art Sensors in 2018-2019 (Deadline: 31 May 2019)
- Visual Sensors (Deadline: 31 January 2019)
- Wearable and Implantable Sensors and Electronics Circuits (Deadline: 31 December 2018)
- Wearable Sensors for Gait and Motion Analysis 2018 (Deadline: 15 February 2019)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Modeling, Testing and Reliability Issues in MEMS Engineering
- Sensors for Globalized Healthy Living and Wellbeing
