Electrostatic Sensors and Actuators
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 21902
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sensors and actuators; microfluidics; ultrasonics; engineering education
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Interests: electrostatic formation; microfluidics; emulsions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electrostatic sensors and actuators are commonplace in MEMS devices due to their simplicity, fast response, low power/energy densities, and their integration capability with CMOS electronics. Even though electrostatics has been employed for a few decades, there have been recent advancements that deserve higher visibility at both the academic and end-user levels.
Therefore, we invite the academic community and relevant industrial partners to submit both review and original research articles to this Special Issue, with an emphasis on the following:
- Self-powered electrostatic MEMS sensors and actuators
- Repulsive force electrostatic actuators
- Restricted (e.g., dimpled) electrostatic actuators
- Electrostatic levitation-based sensors and actuators
- Electrostatic microfluidic sensors and actuators
- Electrostatic formation
- Electrostatic MEMS modeling
- Electrostatic fringe field resonators
- Post-touchdown electrostatic modeling and behavior
- Novel materials in electrostatic MEMS actuators and sensors
- Material selection for electrostatic MEMS actuators and sensors
- Electrostatic MEMS actuators utilizing novel electrode shapes and sizes for improved motion
- Electrostatic MEMS flapping actuators
- Piezoelectric and capacitive micromachined ultrasonic sensors and transducers
- Electrostatic micropumping
- Miscellaneous topics on electrostatic sensors and transducers
Dr. John Cotter
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Electrostatic sensors and actuators
- Electrostatic modeling
- MEMS
- Electrostatic microfluidics
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