The “Microelectronics” Section is dedicated to publishing original research articles and cutting-edge reviews on the applications of microelectronics in emerging and challenging technologies. Electronics operating in extreme environments, such as a vacuum, space, harsh radiation, extreme cold and other niche applications, advances microelectronic designs.

You have free and unlimited access to the full texts of all of the open access articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below:

1. “Actively MEMS-Based Tunable Metamaterials for Advanced and Emerging Applications”
by Ruijia Xu and Yu-Sheng Lin
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 243; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020243
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/243

2. “Reliability of Commercial UVC LEDs: 2022 State-of-the-Art”
by Nicola Trivellin, Davide Fiorimonte, Francesco Piva, Matteo Buffolo, Carlo De Santi, Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Enrico Zanoni and Matteo Meneghini
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 728; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050728
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/728

3. “Survey on Fatigue Life Prediction of BGA Solder Joints”
by Baojun Qiu, Jingang Xiong, Han Wang, Shuai Zhou, Xiuding Yang, Zhengpei Lin, Maolin Liu and Nian Cai
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 542; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040542
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/542

4. “Compact CMOS Wideband Instrumentation Amplifiers for Multi-Frequency Bioimpedance Measurement: A Design Procedure”
by Israel Corbacho, Juan M. Carrillo, José L. Ausín, Miguel Á. Domínguez, Raquel Pérez-Aloe and Juan Francisco Duque-Carrillo
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1668; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111668
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1668

5. “Comparison of Total Ionizing Dose Effects in 22-nm and 28-nm FD SOI Technologies”
by Zongru Li, Christopher Jarrett Elash, Chen Jin, Li Chen, Jiesi Xing, Zhiwu Yang and Shuting Shi
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1757; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111757
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1757

6. “Small-Signal Analysis of All-Si Microring Resonator Photodiode”
by Yiwei Peng, Wayne V. Sorin, Stanley Cheung, Yuan Yuan, Zhihong Huang, Marco Fiorentino and Raymond G. Beausoleil
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 183; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020183
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/183

7. “Sensitivity Characterization of Multi-Band THz Metamaterial Sensor for Possible Virus Detection”
by Anja Kovačević, Milka Potrebić and Dejan Tošić
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 699; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050699
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/699

8. “Simulated Hough Transform Model Optimized for Straight-Line Recognition Using Frontier FPGA Devices”
by Alessandro Gabrielli, Fabrizio Alfonsi and Francesca Del Corso
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 517; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040517
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/517

9. “Study of Breakdown Voltage Stability of Gas-Filled Surge Arresters in the Presence of Gamma Radiation”
by Emilija Živanović, Marija Živković and Sandra Veljković
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2447; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152447
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2447

10. “Investigation on High-Efficiency Beam-Wave Interaction for Coaxial Multi-Beam Relativistic Klystron Amplifier”
by Limin Sun, Hua Huang, Shifeng Li, Zhengbang Liu, Hu He, Qifan Xiang, Ke He and Xianghe Fang
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 281; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020281
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/281