Metamaterial-Inspired Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2020) | Viewed by 5071
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metamaterial; antenna; electromagnetic sensor; RF origami electroncis
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Dear Colleagues,
Metamaterial-inspired structures exhibit a high-quality factor and a small-form factor which provide favorable opportunities to conceive a diverse range of sensing applications. New paradigms are shifting towards flexible and stretchable structures owing to their great potential in various fields. Electromagnetic waves (microwave–millimeter regime) have the potential to cross the capacitive barrier of cell–membrane and peep into the cytoplasm. There is a great need to design metamaterial-inspired physical–biochemical sensors which, whilst safer than conventional ultrasound techniques, could be an inexpensive and non-invasive sensing platform with a small-form factor. Prominently, the selectivity of microwave/RF biochemical sensors suffers compared to the selectivity of electrochemical/optical sensors; however, new techniques can be invented to complement it.
This Special Issue is dedicated to metamaterial-inspired sensors, including but not limited to conventional fabrication techniques/substrates. Flexible sensing platforms made from a combination of soft electronics and metamaterial-inspired structures would have high priority. For instance, a metamaterial-inspired epidermal biosensor as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool can be envisaged. In general, metamaterial-inspired sensors have found numerous applications, such as chemical sensors, strain sensors, pressure and temperature sensors, and crack detection and tactile sensors.
Prof. Sungjoon Lim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Microwave
- Metamaterial
- Electromagnetic
- Non-invasive detection
- Flexible
- Stretchable
- Resonator
- Antenna
- Remote
- RFID
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