Selected Papers from IEEE ICICE 2017

Dear Colleagues,

2017 IEEE International Conference on Information, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2017) will be held in Xiamen, Fujian, P.R. China on November 17–20, 2017, and will provide a unified communication platform for researchers in a wide area of topics. Scientists all over the world actively want to discover new advanced materials in electrical and mechanical engineering. In recent years, the applications of advanced materials have been highly developing fields, in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. The scopes of ICICE 2017 are not only encompasses material sizes at the nanoscale, but also in various dimensions where the onset of size dependent phenomena usually enables novel applications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.

This special issue selects excellent papers from ICICE 2017 and covers the following scopes, including fundamental and advanced materials of electrical and mechanical engineering, their synthesis and engineering, their application on optical sensors, magnetic, acoustic, and thermal transduction, their integration with many elements, designing of electrical or mechanical devices, evaluation various performance and exploring their broad applications in industry, environmental control, material analysis, etc. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles, to this special issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Developments of advanced materials for new electrical and optical properties
• Nanomaterials for preparation and applications
• Combinatorial methods of advanced materials for mechanical design and optimization
• Advanced materials for preparation and applications
• Subjects related to electronic thin films and coating technology
• Synthesis engineering of advanced materials
• Advanced materials in mechatronics applications
• Class of materials include ceramics, glasses, polymers (plastics), semiconductors, etc.

Prof. Dr. Shoou-Jinn Chang
Prof. Teen-Hang Meen
Dr. Stephen D. Prior  
Guest Editors

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