Innovative MEMS: Merging Smart Materials with Electronic Techniques for Enhanced Sensing and Actuation
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Miniaturized and Micro Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2025 | Viewed by 54
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart structures; energy harvesting; MEMS; piezoelectric materials; magnetic materials; structural dynamics; multiphysics modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMSs) have had a significant impact in the fields of sensors and actuators, with continuous progress still being made. A noteworthy advancement that significantly extends the applications of MEMSs is the possibility of integrating them with smart materials, such as piezoelectric and magnetic materials combined with silicon, leveraging these materials’ multiphysics behavior. Their cutting-edge design and the use of smart materials are leading to new miniaturized chemical, physical, biological, and optical sensors and microactuators. This progress opens up new challenges and opportunities for their application in several research fields, such as physics, electronics, chemistry, biology, biomedical sciences, and microfluidics. This rapid evolution also promotes progress in the field of electronic circuits, in techniques and systems for signal conditioning/processing and power management, and in the development of analytical and simulation models and tools. In this context, we invite researchers and scientists to submit articles on the scientific and technical aspects of microsystems used for sensors and actuators. Both review articles and original research articles are welcome.
The covered topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design and fabrication processes of MEMS devices;
- Sensors, actuators, and transducers at the microscale;
- Energy conversion devices and energy harvesters;
- Electronic circuits and techniques for microsystems;
- Smart materials for microsystems;
- Analytical and numerical simulation modeling approaches;
- Assembly and packaging methods;
- System architectures and innovative applications.
Dr. Michele Rosso
Dr. Alessandro Nastro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MEMS
- actuation
- sensing
- energy harvesting
- magnetic interaction
- electromechanical coupling
- piezoelectric
- electronic techniques
- circuits
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