Recent Advances in Spectroscopic Sensing and Sensor Engineering
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gas sensing; atmospheric spectroscopy; multivariate analysis
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Interests: integrated optics; optical spectroscopy; piezoelectric resonators
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Spectroscopic detection plays a pivotal role across a wide range of fields, including environmental research, agricultural and food monitoring, medical diagnostics, and industrial process control. These applications demand detection techniques that are not only sensitive, selective, and capable of real-time, non-invasive analysis, but also compact and robust for reliable on-site deployment. Recent developments in laser technology, integrated optics, and signal processing methods have led to remarkable achievement in the field of spectroscopic sensing.
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue entitled “Recent Advances in Spectroscopic Sensing and Sensor Engineering”, to be published in the open-access journal Sensors. This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest developments in spectroscopy and sensor engineering based on techniques including, but not limited to, photoacoustic spectroscopy, quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy and light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy. We invite original research articles covering advances in optical sensor architectures and laser sources or detectors, potentially integrated with advanced data processing algorithms. In addition to fundamental technological innovations, we particularly encourage contributions that demonstrate the deployment and performance of these sensors in real-world scenarios, such as on-site environmental monitoring for the spatial and temporal mapping of pollutants, medical diagnostics, industrial applications, agri-food quality assessments, and volcanic gas monitoring in geochemically active areas. Submissions addressing other application areas are also welcome, provided that they demonstrate clear relevance to the core objectives of enhanced sensitivity, selectivity, portability, and cost-efficiency in spectroscopic sensing.
Dr. Andrea Zifarelli
Dr. Giansergio Menduni
Dr. Mariagrazia Olivieri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical spectroscopy
- sensing technologies
- laser sources and detectors
- photoacoustic gas and liquid sensing
- light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy
- real-world applications of sensing
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