Low-Power Electronics for Wireless Smart Sensors

Call for Papers

Low-power smart sensor technology incorporating wireless telemetry has been receiving growing interest from scientists and engineers in recent years as new and promising developments have been made in both transducer design and CMOS process technology. The high degree of miniaturization of many classic measurement techniques has led to the realization of complex analytical systems including sensors. Recent advancements in CMOS process technology have led to further development of highly complex integrated circuits with significantly reduced power dissipation. This has made possible the realization of smart sensors with local processing and wireless telemetry capabilities. This new class of sensors is extensively contributing to a broad range of activities with applications in biology, medicine, environmental monitoring, agriculture, food safety, space applications, and counter terrorism. The purpose of this special issue is to provide opportunities to address on-going research activities in the design of transducers and the associated electronics required for sensing systems.

We invite scholars to submit original research and review articles. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Foundations and concepts of low-power circuit design
• Design of transducers for wireless sensor applications
• Biosensor devices and interface electronics
• Biomedical signal processing
• Ultra-low-power wireless neural interface
• Energy-harvesting techniques for batteryless sensors
• Power and energy management circuits and systems
• Circuits and techniques for energy-efficient wireless communication
• Architectural and system-level considerations and demonstrations
• Intelligent and adaptive signal processing

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/apec/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Guest Editors

• Syed Kamrul Islam, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
• Junseok Chae, Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 650 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA
• Jeremy Holleman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, 1508 Middle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
• Yu-Te Liao, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan