Electronic Circuits and Interfacing Techniques for Advanced Sensors and Sensor Tags
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2021) | Viewed by 4018
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interface electronic circuits for sensors; contactless interrogation techniques for resonant and capacitive sensors; MEMS sensors; energy harvesting for autonomous sensors and microsystems; acoustic-wave sensors; electro-mechanical modeling and FEM simulations; low-noise circuits for sensors and detectors
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Interests: discrete and integrated electronic interfaces for sensors; autonomous wireless sensor networks; low-voltage low-power integrated circuits; current-mode readout techniques; electronics for industrial applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The field of sensors has evolved continuously in the last years in order to face the new challenges raised by the advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 scenarios.
Sensors and sensor nodes, besides their typical features, such as suitable sensitivity, resolution, and accuracy, are required to have advanced characteristics such as ultra-low-power consumption, energetic autonomy, and the possibility to be interrogated without contact. Such advanced features have been tackled under different aspects.
In particular, ultra-low-power interface electronic circuits and conditioning techniques have been favored by advances in the fabrication process of integrated circuits joined with new circuit configurations and readout approaches, such as the current-mode and charge-mode ones. Energy-autonomous sensor nodes have gained great attention because of the intensive investigations in energy-harvesting techniques. Solutions for the supply of energy from an external interrogation unit have been also considered, such as RFID-based sensor nodes, exploiting either inductive coupling or back-scattered electromagnetic waves between the sensor unit and the interrogation unit. In addition, contactless techniques based on inductive coupling with a sensor unit composed of LC resonant sensors or electromechanical resonators have drawn much attention, enabling the possibility towards the development of completely passive, and eventually disposable, tags.
In this context, we invite researchers and scientists to submit contributions on of the all scientific and technical aspects of advanced sensors and electronic interfaces dealing with the aforementioned scopes. Both review articles, about the state-of-the-art, and original research articles are welcome.
The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced techniques and board-level/integrated interface circuits for sensors
- Contactless/telemetric interrogation techniques for passive LC sensors or electromechanical/MEMS resonators
- RFID-based sensor nodes
- RF back-scattering sensors
- Autonomous sensors and battery-less sensor nodes
- Passive sensor tags
- Zero-power sensing
Dr. Marco Baù
Dr. Gianluca Barile
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sensor interfaces
- Readout circuits
- Passive resonant/LC sensors
- RFID sensor nodes
- Autonomous sensors
- Energy harvesting for sensors
- Contactless/telemetric interrogation
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