Materials and Applications for Sensors and Transducers

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce this Special Issue that will host selected and peer-reviewed papers from the 6^th International Conference on Materials and Applications for Sensors and Transducers (27–30 September, 2016, Athens, Greece). The IC-MAST conference covers a board thematic area of sensor technology and related applications, but is also especially focused on material research that enables sensors and transducers development. Guest Editors also invite individual researchers in addition to IC-MAST 2016 participants to contribute original research papers or timely reviews in those thematic areas.

The research and development activities of sensing devices and transducers has become an interdisciplinary technological field, combining research in a number of diverse thematic areas and technologies, ranging from materials, nanotechnology, processing techniques, mathematical modeling, optimization strategies, and electronics integration to name just a few. New disruptive technologies are exploited towards the identification of new potential sensing and monitoring applications, while demanding and established application areas often impose strict operational requirements in current technologies for the enhancement of sensing performance and functionality in a number of application areas like industry, environment, defence, biomedical, health, etc.

The current Special Issue seeks to strengthen this interdisciplinary connection by hosting representative original contributions, aiming to relate, by characteristic examples, the key issues of basic research and materials development with sensing and transuding technology in the frame of emerging and demanding applications.

The Special Issue would include the following topics:

• Functional materials: optical, magnetic, electronic, semiconducting, nanostructured, etc.
• Sensors and transducers design
• Sensors and transducers fabrication
• Optical and photonic sensors
• Chemical sensors
• Gas sensors
• Nanosensors
• Sensing methods and technologies
• Sensor systems and applications
• Modelling and computational methods for sensors and transducers design
• Interrogation techniques and devices characterization
• New demanding applications in industry, defence, space, and biomedical areas
• Sensing requirements and solutions for new emerging ICT applications: Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), etc.

Dr. Christos Riziotis
Prof. Evangelos Hristoforou
Prof. Dimitrios Vlachos
Guest Editors

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