Bio-Inspired Micro and Nano Sensors and Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 3783
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart electronic systems; bio-inspired electronics; biomedical applications; micro and nano electronics
Interests: event-driven digital integrated circuits, architectures, and systems; low power smart sensor networks; bio-inspired electronics; biomedical applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the new biomedical applications scenario of recent years, where the IoT revolution is promising the advent of personalized/precision medicine, new challenges are emerging in designing and developing next-generation sensors. Common requirements no longer entail “only” good performance, but also (among the others) high availability (e.g., in continuous monitoring), minimal size and complexity, minimal power consumption, smart capabilities (i.e., detecting anomalies or focusing on the actual information content of the sensed data), and wearability. It is clear that all of these features are already “available” in biological systems, where the evolutionary pressure has been a driving factor in exploiting, broadly speaking, quality–energy trade-offs for optimized performances and energy consumption/resource requirements.
Therefore, we advocate the need for taking inspiration from biological systems in order to design and develop micro and nano sensors for next-generation biomedical applications. Sensors, from the engineering perspective, are not only a matter of designing the right transducer, but they also need matching electronics too, implementing the proper information processing in order to move from raw data acquisition devices to information acquisition and transmission systems.
We invite you to contribute original research papers aligned with these themes, to advance and improve the state of the art in bio-inspired sensors for biomedical applications, providing new opportunities, approaches, and solutions to next-generation biomedical application challenges.
Prof. Dr. Danilo Demarchi
Dr. Paolo Motto Ros
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bioinspired circuits and systems
- Integrated (CMOS) biosensing
- Low-power/low-complexity sensor architectures
- Quality-energy trade-off
- Precision/personalized medicine
- IoT and biomedical applications
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