Ion Image Sensors Using Array Devices

Dear Colleagues,

In the 1960s, scientists and engineers were excited about the electron-microscopic world that they had never seen before. A new image view produces many new hypotheses of them. Nowadays, image sensors that capture ions and biological substances in aqueous solution are also starting to provide new images and movies. In particular, the development of ion image sensors is expected in biological fields.

This Special Issue is seeking papers aimed at or realizing ion image sensors using array devices. Although there are many imaging investigations using microscopic methods with ion-sensing fluorescent substances or its applications, this Issue does not seek them. Label-free, uninvasive, and unskilled imaging methods are favorable, in order to observe as it is. The development of the array devices using state-of-the-art technologies is welcome, even if it is primitive for the aims of the ion image sensor. Regarding the applications of array-type ion image sensors, diverse ion image investigations including corrosion, foods, and crops, are also welcome as well as the bioimaging of cells, tissues, and small organisms.

We are very grateful to you concerning the Special Issue entitled “Ion Imaging Sensors using Array Devices”.

Prof. Dr. Toshiaki Hattori
Prof. Kazuaki Sawada
Guest Editors

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