Micro-Nano Systems Technology and Micro-Nano Intelligent Manufacture

Dear Colleagues,

As a multi- and interdisciplinary research field, micro- and nano systems make full use of electronics, optics, mechanics, chemistry, materials science, among others, to achieve high-performance devices and systems for biomedical, energy, environment and communications applications. For instance, in the field of health care, intelligent micro- and nano systems have boosted developments in off/on-line health continuous monitoring and disease detection with affordable micro-nano devices. Combined with the emerging artificial intelligence and cloud technologies, smart transducers based on micro- and nano systems technology become realistic; however, manufacturing these devices with enhanced efficiency and realizing associated systems have much room for innovation, adaptation, and cost reduction in various fields.

The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight the recent progresses on advanced micro- and nano systems as well as their intelligent manufacture with emphasis on applications in health care, environment, food industry and energy, electronics communications, among others. Of special interest is research work addressing real-time and continuous signal processing and detection, modelling and simulation in micro and nano systems, microfabrication principles and techniques, MEMS sensors and actuators fabrication and applications, on-chip networks and network-on-chip (NoC), microfluidic- and nanofluidic devices.

It is solicited submissions of both original research papers and review articles for this special issue.