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MDPI will be presenting at the 7th Scientific Meeting of Ph.D. Students at the UAB campus (JPhD2023). The event will be held at the Sala d'Actes Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, from 7 to 9 June 2023.

JPhD2023 aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about scientific research from different fields, sharing of research works and communication among the Ph.D. students of the BNC-b in an academic and scientific environment.

MDPI Speaker

Dr. Gabriel Martínez Edo
Presentation theme: MDPI Open Access & Peer Review Process 

Dr. Gabriel Martínez Edo holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry (2013) and a master’s degree in pharmaceutical chemistry (2015) from the IQS school of Engineering, Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona, Spain). He completed his Ph.D. (2020) in chemistry and chemical engineering at the same institution focusing on the use of nanomaterials as drug delivery systems.

He joined MDPI in June 2020 as Assistant Editor and Section Managing Editor for the journal Nanomaterials. In 2021, he was appointed Managing Editor of the journal Nanomanufacturing, a position he held until his recent appointment as Journal Relations Specialist.  

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://jphd.icmab.es/.

Relevant Journals:

This Section “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles” addresses the different perspectives of design, development, and usage of electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as their impact on people’s lives, on cities, and on power and energy systems. We welcome papers on innovative scientific and technical developments, sound case studies, and reviews that are relevant and/or related to the Section “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles”.

As they are of open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 below.

1. “Review of Electric Vehicle Technologies, Charging Methods, Standards and Optimization Techniques”
by Syed Muhammad Arif, Tek Tjing Lie, Boon Chong Seet, Soumia Ayyadi and Kristian Jensen
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1910; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161910
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1910

2. “A Simulated Annealing Algorithm and Grid Map-Based UAV Coverage Path Planning Method for 3D Reconstruction”
by Sichen Xiao Azar, Xiaojun Tan and Jinping Wang
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 853; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070853
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/853

3. “A Survey of Trust Management in the Internet of Vehicles”
by Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki and Wei Ni
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2223; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182223
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/18/2223

4. “Machine-Learning-Enabled Intrusion Detection System for Cellular Connected UAV Networks”
by Rakesh Shrestha, Atefeh Omidkar, Sajjad Ahmadi Roudi, Robert Abbas and Shiho Kim
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1549; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131549
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1549

5. “Is There a Predisposition towards the Use of New Technologies within the Traffic Field of Emerging Countries? The Case of the Dominican Republic”
by Francisco Alonso, Mireia Faus, Cristina Esteban and Sergio A. Useche
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1208; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101208
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1208

6. “An Enhanced Multicell-to-Multicell Battery Equalizer Based on Bipolar-Resonant LC Converter”
by Xuan Luo, Longyun Kang, Chusheng Lu, Jinqing Linghu, Hongye Lin and Bihua Hu
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 293; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030293
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/293

7. “A Survey on Deep Learning Based Approaches for Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving”
by Zhiyang Guo, Yingping Huang, Xing Hu, Hongjian Wei and Baigan Zhao
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 471; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040471
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/471

8. “UAV-Assisted Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Comprehensive Survey”
by Minh T. Nguyen, Cuong V. Nguyen, Hai T. Do, Hoang T. Hua, Thang A. Tran, An D. Nguyen, Guido Ala and Fabio Viola
Electronics 2021, 10(21), 2603; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10212603  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/21/2603

9. “Machine Learning-Based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Using V2V Communications and On-Board Sensors”
by Dongho Choi, Janghyuk Yim, Minjin Baek and Sangsun Lee
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 420; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040420
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/420

10. “Reliable Vehicle Data Storage Using Blockchain and IPFS”
by Hyoeun Ye and Sejin Park
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1130; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101130
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1130

The Section “Artificial Intelligence” mainly covers topics of interest within unique hardware-based deep learning AI and algorithmic deep learning AI using machine learning. The purpose of this Section is to bring together researchers and engineers, from both academia and industry, to present novel ideas and solid research on the hardware and algorithmic aspects of advanced applications of deep-learning-based AI.

As they are of open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 below:

1. “Biometric User Identification Based on Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors: An Experiment Using Deep Learning Models”
by Sakorn Mekruksavanich and Anuchit Jitpattanakul
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 308; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030308
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/308

2. “Artificial Neural Networks Based Optimization Techniques: A Review”
by Maher G. M. Abdolrasol, S. M. Suhail Hussain, Taha Selim Ustun, Mahidur R. Sarker, Mahammad A. Hannan, Ramizi Mohamed, Jamal Abd Ali, Saad Mekhilef and Abdalrhman Milad
Electronics 2021, 10(21), 2689; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10212689
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/21/2689

3. “An Advanced CNN-LSTM Model for Cryptocurrency Forecasting”
by Ioannis E. Livieris, Niki Kiriakidou, Stavros Stavroyiannis and Panagiotis Pintelas
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 287; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030287
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/287

4. “Deep Convolutional Neural Network with RNNs for Complex Activity Recognition Using Wrist-Worn Wearable Sensor Data”
by Sakorn Mekruksavanich and Anuchit Jitpattanakul
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1685; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141685
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1685

5. “Novel Control Strategy for Enhancing Microgrid Operation Connected to Photovoltaic Generation and Energy Storage Systems”
by Dina Emara, Mohamed Ezzat, Almoataz Y. Abdelaziz, Karar Mahmoud, Matti Lehtonen and Mohamed M. F. Darwish
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1261; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111261
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1261

6. “Improved YOLOv3 Network for Insulator Detection in Aerial Images with Diverse Background Interference”
by Chuanyang Liu Yiquan Wu, Jingjing Liu and Zuo Sun
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 771; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070771
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/771

7. “EWOA-OPF: Effective Whale Optimization Algorithm to Solve Optimal Power Flow Problem”
by Mohammad H. Nadimi-Shahraki, Shokooh Taghian, Seyedali Mirjalili, Laith Abualigah, Mohamed Abd Elaziz and Diego Oliva
Electronics 2021, 10(23), 2975; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10232975
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/23/2975

8. “Concrete Cracks Detection and Monitoring Using Deep Learning-Based Multiresolution Analysis”
by Ahcene Arbaoui Abdeldjalil Ouahabi, Sébastien Jacques and Madina Hamiane
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1772; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151772
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1772

9. “A Survey on Machine Learning-Based Performance Improvement of Wireless Networks: PHY, MAC and Network Layer”
by Merima Kulin, Tarik Kazaz, Eli De Poorter and Ingrid Moerman
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 318; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030318
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/318

10. “Review on Generative Adversarial Networks: Focusing on Computer Vision and Its Applications”
by Sung-Wook Park, Jae-Sub Ko, Jun-Ho Huh and Jong-Chan Kim
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1216; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101216
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1216

The purpose of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide. 17 May marks the anniversary of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

This year, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day focuses on “Empowering the least developed countries (LDCs) through information and communication technologies.” As the world becomes increasingly adept at leveraging the Internet for value creation, LDCs risk falling further behind. To further explore the information about digital transformation in these LDCs and communication technologies in the rest of the world on the 2023 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, we have gathered academic research from several journals on the topic of digital communication, all of which are open access, enabling practitioners, policymakers and people around the world to access and share up-to-date scientific knowledge.

Let us celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day together.

As the Editor-in-Chief of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292), it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Electronics 2022 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award—Dr. Gabriele Patrizi, from the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. This award is for a Ph.D. student or recently qualified Ph.D. who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted for the following thesis:
“An Innovative Data-Driven Reliability Life Cycle for Complex Systems”

Dr. Gabriele Patrizi will receive CHF 800, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Electronics in 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee—Prof. Dr. Ke Guan, Prof. Dr. Joao Soares, Prof. Dr. Valeri Mladenov, Prof. Dr. Stefanos Kollias, Prof. Dr. Amir H Gandomi, Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis, and Prof. Dr. Martin Reisslein—I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winner on his accomplishment. We would also like to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief, Electronics

The Section “Systems & Control Engineering” is devoted to publishing focused articles related to control aspects of electronics and engineering systems, more specifically including theoretical developments and applications of control engineering as embedded control systems, mechatronics, smart systems, power systems, electrical circuits, and computer science, for the enhancement of electronics systems and processes. We hope to present state-of-the-art technologies in this Section.

The Section “Systems & Control Engineering” follows the same Open Access format as the rest of Electronics, meaning that you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below:

1. “Analysing Factory Workers’ Acceptance of Collaborative Robots: A Web-Based Tool for Company Representatives”
by Marco Baumgartner, Tobias Kopp and Steffen Kinkel
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 145; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010145
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/145

2. “Multiparameter Identification of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Based on Model Reference Adaptive System—Simulated Annealing Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm”
by Guoyong Su, Pengyu Wang, Yongcun Guo, Gang Cheng, Shuang Wang and Dongyang Zhao
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 159; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010159
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/159

3. “A Systematic Simulation-Based Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for the Evaluation of Semi–Fully Flexible Machine System Process Parameters”
by Thirupathi Samala, Vijaya Kumar Manupati, Jose Machado, Shubham Khandelwal and Katarzyna Antosz
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020233
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/233

4. “An Extreme Learning Machine Based Adaptive VISMA for Stability Enhancement of Renewable Rich Power Systems”
by Herlambang Setiadi, Rakibuzzaman Shah, Md Rabiul Islam, Dimas Anton Asfani, Tigor Hamonangan Nasution, Muhammad Abdillah, Prisma Megantoro and Awan Uji Krismanto
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020247
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/247

5. “Power Quality Monitoring Strategy Based on an Optimized Multi-Domain Feature Selection for the Detection and Classification of Disturbances in Wind Generators”
by David A. Elvira-Ortiz, Juan J. Saucedo-Dorantes, Roque A. Osornio-Rios, Daniel Morinigo-Sotelo and Jose A. Antonino-Daviu
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 287; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020287
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/287

6. “Neighboring-Pixel-Based Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Partially Shaded Photovoltaic (PV) Systems”
by Huma Rehman, Ali Faisal Murtaza, Hadeed Ahmed Sher, Abdullah M. Noman, Abdullrahman A. Al-Shamma’a, Abdulaziz Alkuhayli and Filippo Spertino
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030359
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/359

7. “Assessment of Thermophysical Performance of Ester-Based Nanofluids for Enhanced Insulation Cooling in Transformers"
by Suhaib Ahmad Khan, Mohd Tariq, Asfar Ali Khan, Basem Alamri and Lucian Mihet-Popa
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 376; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030376
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/376

8. “Bin-Picking Solution for Randomly Placed Automotive Connectors Based on Machine Learning Techniques”
by Pedro Torres, Janis Arents, Hugo Marques and Paulo Marques
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 476; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030476
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/476

9. “A Novel Deep Learning Model for Detection of Severity Level of the Disease in Citrus Fruits”
by Poonam Dhiman, Vinay Kukreja, Poongodi Manoharan, Amandeep Kaur, M. M. Kamruzzaman, Imed Ben Dhaou and Celestine Iwendi
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 495; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030495
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/495

10. “A Novel Fixed-Time Trajectory Tracking Strategy of Unmanned Surface Vessel Based on the Fractional Sliding Mode Control Method”
by Dong Chen, Jundong Zhang and Zhongkun Li
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 726; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050726
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/726

11. “Sensorless Control of Seven-Phase PMSM Drives Using NSV-SVPWM with Minimum Current Distortion”
by Kamel Saleh and Mark Sumner
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 792; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050792
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/792

12. “Model Reference Adaptive Control of Marine Permanent Magnet Propulsion Motor Based on Parameter Identification”
by Yubo Huang, Jundong Zhang, Dong Chen and Jiahao Qi
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1012; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1012

13. “Vertiport Operations Modeling, Agent-Based Simulation and Parameter Value Specification”
by Lukas Preis and Mirko Hornung
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1071; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071071
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1071

14. “Modeling and Extended State Observer-Based Backstepping Control of Underwater Electro Hydrostatic Actuator with Pressure Compensator and External Load”
by Yong Nie, Jiajia Liu, Zhenhua Lao and Zheng Chen
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1286; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081286
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1286

15. “Improved Rapidly Exploring Random Tree with Bacterial Mutation and Node Deletion for Offline Path Planning of Mobile Robot”
by Aphilak Lonklang and János Botzheim
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1459; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091459
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1459

16. “Numerical Solutions of a Differential System Considering a Pure Hybrid Fuzzy Neutral Delay Theory”
by Prasantha Bharathi Dhandapani, Jayakumar Thippan, Carlos Martin-Barreiro, Víctor Leiva and Christophe Chesneau
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1478; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091478
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1478

17. “Energy Management Strategies for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Based on Filter Control: Analysis and Comparison”
by Germán Andrés Ramos and Ramon Costa-Castelló
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1631; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101631
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1631

18. “Automatic Weight Prediction System for Korean Cattle Using Bayesian Ridge Algorithm on RGB-D Image”
by Myung Hwan Na, Wan Hyun Cho, Sang Kyoon Kim and In Seop Na
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1663; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101663
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1663

19. “Analysis of a User Interface Based on Multimodal Interaction to Control a Robotic Arm for EOD Applications”
by Denilson V. Goyzueta, Joseph Guevara M., Andrés Montoya A., Erasmo Sulla E., Yuri Lester S., Pari L. and Elvis Supo C.
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1690; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111690
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1690

20. “A Combined Model Incorporating Improved SSA and LSTM Algorithms for Short-Term Load Forecasting”
by Mingchong Han, Jianwei Zhong, Pu Sang, Honghua Liao and Aiguo Tan
Electronics 2022, 11(12), 1835; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121835
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/12/1835

21. “Path Planning Algorithm and Application Research of an Indoor Substation Wheeled Robot Navigation System”
by Jianxin Ren, Tao Wu, Xiaohua Zhou, Congcong Yang, Jiahui Sun, Mingshuo Li, Huayang Jiang and Anfeng Zhang
Electronics 2022, 11(12), 1838; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121838
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/12/1838

22. “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Dual-UAV Reconnaissance Mission Planning”
by Xiaoru Zhao, Rennong Yang, Ying Zhang, Mengda Yan and Longfei Yue
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 2031; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11132031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/2031

23. “Assessing Artificial Intelligence Technology Acceptance in Managerial Accounting”
by Anca Antoaneta Vărzaru
Electronics 2022, 11(14), 2256; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11142256
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/14/2256

24. “A Modified Active-Disturbance-Rejection Control with Sliding Modes for an Uncertain System by Using a Novel Reaching Law”
by Dong Zhang, Tao Wu, Shangyao Shi and Zhen Dong
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2392; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152392
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2392

25. “A New Decentralized PQ Control for Parallel Inverters in Grid-Tied Microgrids Propelled by SMC-Based Buck–Boost Converters”
by Ali M. Jasim, Basil H. Jasim and Bogdan-Constantin Neagu
Electronics 2022, 11(23), 3917; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11233917
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/23/3917

The Section “Networks” provides full coverage of all topics of interest involved in the networking area. The purpose of this Section is to bring together researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry to present novel ideas and solid research about the theoretical and practical aspects in the application domains of computer communications and networks.

As all of the articles published in our journal are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 listed below:

1. “Threat Analysis and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack Recognition in the Internet of Things (IoT)”
by Mohammed Hasan Ali, Mustafa Musa Jaber, Sura Khalil Abd, Amjad Rehman, Mazhar Javed Awan, Robertas Damaševičius and Saeed Ali Bahaj
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030494
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/494

2. “IMIDS: An Intelligent Intrusion Detection System against Cyber Threats in IoT”
by Kim-Hung Le, Minh-Huy Nguyen, Trong-Dat Tran and Ngoc-Duan Tran
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 524; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040524
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/524

3. “Deep Learning-Based Object Detection and Scene Perception under Bad Weather Conditions”
by Teena Sharma, Benoit Debaque, Nicolas Duclos, Abdellah Chehri, Bruno Kinder and Paul Fortier
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 563; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040563  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/563

4. “Securing Drug Distribution Systems from Tampering Using Blockchain”
by Mamoona Humayun, Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, Mahmood Niazi, Fathi Amsaad and Isma Masood
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1195; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081195
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1195

5. “Cooperative SWIPT THz-NOMA/6G Performance Analysis”
by Haider W. Oleiwi and Hamed Al-Raweshidy
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 873; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060873
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/873

6. “CMT-SCTP and MPTCP Multipath Transport Protocols: A Comprehensive Review”
by Parul Tomar, Gyanendra Kumar, Lal Pratap Verma, Varun Kumar Sharma, Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Sur Singh Rawat and Youseef Alotaibi
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2384; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152384
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2384

7. “Lightweight Challenge-Response Authentication in SDN-Based UAVs Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography”
by Muhammad Usman, Rashid Amin, Hamza Aldabbas and Bader Alouffi
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1026; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1026

8. “Blockchain-Enabled: Multi-Layered Security Federated Learning Platform for Preserving Data Privacy”
by Zeba Mahmood and Vacius Jusas
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1624; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101624
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1624

9. “An Intelligent System to Detect Advanced Persistent Threats in Industrial Internet of Things (I-IoT)”
by Safdar Hussain Javed, Maaz Bin Ahmad, Muhammad Asif, Sultan H. Almotiri, Khalid Masood and Mohammad A. Al Ghamdi
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 742; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050742  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/742

10. “Machine Learning for Radio Resource Management in Multibeam GEO Satellite Systems”
by Flor G. Ortiz-Gomez, Lei Lei, Eva Lagunas, Ramon Martinez, Daniele Tarchi, Jorge Querol, Miguel A. Salas-Natera and Symeon Chatzinotas
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 992; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11070992  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/992

11. “A Visual Cryptography-Based Watermarking Approach for the Detection and Localization of Image Forgery”
by Moataz Z. Salim, Ali J. Abboud and Remzi Yildirim
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 136; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010136
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/136

12. “BiGRU-CNN Neural Network Applied to Electric Energy Theft Detection”
by Lucas Duarte Soares, Altamira de Souza Queiroz, Gloria P. López, Edgar M. Carreño-Franco, Jesús M. López-Lezama and Nicolás Muñoz-Galeano
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 693; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050693
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/693

13. “A Comprehensive Review of Channel Modeling for Land Mobile Satellite Communications”
by Mauro Tropea and Floriano De Rango
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 820; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050820
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/820

14. “Effectiveness Evaluation of Different IDSs Using Integrated Fuzzy MCDM Model”
by Hashem Alyami, Md Tarique Jamal Ansari, Abdullah Alharbi, Wael Alosaimi, Majid Alshammari, Dhirendra Pandey, Alka Agrawal, Rajeev Kumar and Raees Ahmad Khan
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 859; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060859  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/859

15. “Beyond Perceptual Thresholds and Personal Preference: Towards Novel Research Questions and Methodologies of Quality of Experience Studies on Light Field Visualization”
by Peter A. Kara, Roopak R. Tamboli, Edris Shafiee, Maria G. Martini, Aniko Simon and Mary Guindy
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 953; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060953
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/953

16. “SAGMAD—A Signature Agnostic Malware Detection System Based on Binary Visualisation and Fuzzy Sets”
by Betty Saridou, Joseph Ryan Rose, Stavros Shiaeles and Basil Papadopoulos
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1044; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071044
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1044

17. “Statistical Channel Model and Systematic Random Linear Network Coding Based QoS Oriented and Energy Efficient UWSN Routing Protocol”
by Pramod Halebeedu Basavaraju, Gururaj Harinahalli Lokesh, Gowtham Mohan, Noor Zaman Jhanjhi and Francesco Flammini
Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2590; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162590
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/16/2590

18. “An Approach to Combine the Power of Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Graph Neural Network for Routing Optimization”
by Bo Chen, Di Zhu, Yuwei Wang and Peng Zhang
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030368
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/368

19. “A Novel Android Botnet Detection System Using Image-Based and Manifest File Features”
by Suleiman Y. Yerima and Abul Bashar
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 486; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030486
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/486

20. “Overview of Prospects for Service-Aware Radio Access towards 6G Networks”
by Zixiao Zhao, Qinghe Du, Dawei Wang, Xiao Tang and Houbing Song
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1262; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081262
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1262

The “Systems & Control Engineering” Section provides the field of electrical and computer engineering with a unified paradigm for designing controllers in a variety of application domains. Initially developed in the context of electrical engineering, this dynamic field has come to represent an essential enabling and supporting technology for a wide range of sectors (energy, transport, manufacturing, biology, defense, robotics, etc.).

As they are of an Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “A Genetic Algorithm Optimized RNN-LSTM Model for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Turbofan Engine”
by Kwok Tai Chui, Brij B. Gupta and Pandian Vasant
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 285; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030285
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/285

2. “Multi-Objective Energy Management of a Micro-Grid Considering Stochastic Nature of Load and Renewable Energy Resources”
by Deyaa Ahmed, Mohamed Ebeed, Abdelfatah Ali, Ali S. Alghamdi and Salah Kamel
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 403; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040403
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/403

3. “Machine Learning-Based Data-Driven Fault Detection/Diagnosis of Lithium-Ion Battery: A Critical Review”
by Akash Samanta, Sumana Chowdhuri and Sheldon S. Williamson
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1309; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111309
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1309

4. “Bearing Fault Classification Using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition and Convolutional Neural Network”
by Rafia Nishat Toma, Cheol-Hong Kim and Jong-Myon Kim
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1248; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111248
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1248

5. “Security of Things Intrusion Detection System for Smart Healthcare”
by Celestine Iwendi, Joseph Henry Anajemba, Cresantus Biamba and Desire Ngabo
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1375; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121375
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1375

6. “A Cost-Efficient MFCC-Based Fault Detection and Isolation Technology for Electromagnetic Pumps”
by Ugochukwu Ejike Akpudo and Jang-Wook Hur
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 439; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040439
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/439

7. “On-line Detection and Classification of PMSM Stator Winding Faults Based on Stator Current Symmetrical Components Analysis and the KNN Algorithm”
by Przemyslaw Pietrzak and Marcin Wolkiewicz
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1786; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151786
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1786

8. “An Autonomous Grape-Harvester Robot: Integrated System Architecture”
by Eleni Vrochidou, Konstantinos Tziridis, Alexandros Nikolaou, Theofanis Kalampokas, George A. Papakostas, Theodore P. Pachidis, Spyridon Mamalis, Stefanos Koundouras and Vassilis G. Kaburlasos
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1056; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091056
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1056

9. “OATCR: Outdoor Autonomous Trash-Collecting Robot Design Using YOLOv4-Tiny”
by Medhasvi Kulshreshtha, Sushma S. Chandra, Princy Randhawa, Georgios Tsaramirsis, Adil Khadidos and Alaa O. Khadidos
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2292; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182292
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/18/2292

10. “State of the Art of Urban Smart Vertical Farming Automation System: Advanced Topologies, Issues and Recommendations”
by Mohamad Hanif Md Saad, Nurul Maisarah Hamdan and Mahidur R. Sarker
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1422; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121422
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1422

11. “Design of Integrated Autonomous Driving Control System That Incorporates Chassis Controllers for Improving Path Tracking Performance and Vehicle Stability”
by Taewon Ahn, Yongki Lee and Kihong Park
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 144; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020144
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/144

12. “Multi-Objective Sizing Optimization of Hybrid Renewable Energy Microgrid in a Stand-Alone Marine Context”
by Wenqiang Zhu, Jiang Guo and Guo Zhao
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 174; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020174
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/174

13. “Chaos-Based Secure Communications in Biomedical Information Application”
by Teh-Lu Liao, Hsin-Chieh Chen, Chiau-Yuan Peng and Yi-You Hou
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030359
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/359

14. “DWT-LSTM-Based Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings with Multi-Sensors”
by Kai Gu, Yu Zhang, Xiaobo Liu, Heng Li and Mifeng Ren
Electronics 2021, 10(17), 2076; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10172076
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2076

15. “Synthesis of a Path-Planning Algorithm for Autonomous Robots Moving in a Game Environment during Collision Avoidance”
by Józef Lisowski
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 675; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060675
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/675

16. “Optimization of a 3D-Printed Permanent Magnet Coupling Using Genetic Algorithm and Taguchi Method”
by Ekaterina Andriushchenko, Ants Kallaste, Anouar Belahcen, Toomas Vaimann, Anton Rassõlkin, Hamidreza Heidari and Hans Tiismus
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040494
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/494

17. “Open Source Control Device for Industry 4.0 Based on RAMI 4.0”
by Pablo F. S. Melo, Eduardo P. Godoy, Paolo Ferrari and Emiliano Sisinni
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 869; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070869
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/869

18. “Analysis of Obstacle Avoidance Strategy for Dual-Arm Robot Based on Speed Field with Improved Artificial Potential Field Algorithm”
by Hui Zhang, Yongfei Zhu, Xuefei Liu and Xiangrong Xu
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1850; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151850
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1850

19. “A Novel S-Box Dynamic Design Based on Nonlinear-Transform of 1D Chaotic Maps”
by Wenhao Yan and Qun Ding
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1313; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111313
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1313

20. “Research on the Coordinated Control of Regenerative Braking System and ABS in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Based on Composite Structure Motor”
by Qiwei Xu, Chuan Zhou, Hong Huang and Xuefeng Zhang
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 223; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030223
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/223

The “Networks” Section provides full coverage of all topics of interest involved in the networking area. The purpose of this Section is to bring together researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry to present novel ideas and solid research about the theoretical and practical aspects in the application domains of computer communications and networks.

As they are of an Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection for Distributed Denial of Service Attack in Agriculture 4.0”
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Lei Shu, Hamouda Djallel and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1257; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111257
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1257

2. “Machine Learning in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities: A Survey”
by Himanshu Sharma Ahteshamul Haque and Frede Blaabjerg
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1012; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1012

3. “Internet of Things (IoT) Based Indoor Air Quality Sensing and Predictive Analytic—A COVID-19 Perspective”
by Rafia Mumtaz, Syed Mohammad Hassan Zaidi, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Uferah Shafi, Muhammad Moeez Malik, Ayesha Haque, Sadaf Mumtaz and Syed Ali Raza Zaidi
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 184; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020184
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/184

4. “Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities: Network Design, Implementation and Performance Evaluation”
by Ala’ Khalifeh, Khalid A. Darabkh, Ahmad M. Khasawneh, Issa Alqaisieh, Mohammad Salameh, Ahmed AlAbdala, Shams Alrubaye, Anwar Alassaf, Samer Al-HajAli, Radi Al-Wardat et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 218; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020218
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/218

5. “Ensemble-Based Classification Using Neural Networks and Machine Learning Models for Windows PE Malware Detection”
by Robertas Damaševičius, Algimantas Venčkauskas, Jevgenijus Toldinas and Šarūnas Grigaliūnas
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 485; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040485
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/485

6. “A Recommendation Engine for Predicting Movie Ratings Using a Big Data Approach”
by Mazhar Javed Awan, Rafia Asad Khan, Haitham Nobanee, Awais Yasin, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Usman Naseem and Vishwa Pratap Singh
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1215; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101215
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1215

7. “A Novel Adaptive Battery-Aware Algorithm for Data Transmission in IoT-Based Healthcare Applications”
by Hina Magsi, Ali Hassan Sodhro, Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami, Noman Zahid, Sandeep Pirbhulal and Lei Wang
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 367; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040367
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/367

8. “A Low Area High Speed FPGA Implementation of AES Architecture for Cryptography Application”
by Thanikodi Manoj Kumar, Kasarla Satish Reddy, Stefano Rinaldi, Bidare Divakarachari Parameshachari and Kavitha Arunachalam
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 2023; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10162023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/2023

9. “Machine Learning Approach Equipped with Neighbourhood Component Analysis for DDoS Attack Detection in Software-Defined Networking”
by Özgür Tonkal, Hüseyin Polat, Erdal Başaran, Zafer Cömert and Ramazan Kocaoğlu
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1227; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111227
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1227

10. “Blockchain Technology for Secured Healthcare Data Communication among the Non-Terminal Nodes in IoT Architecture in 5G Network”
by Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu, Akash Kumar Bhoi, Soumya Ranjan Nayak, Muhammad Raheel Bhutta and Marcin Woźniak
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1437; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121437
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1437

11. “Android Mobile Malware Detection Using Machine Learning: A Systematic Review”
by Janaka Senanayake, Harsha Kalutarage and Mhd Omar Al-Kadri
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1606; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131606
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1606

12. “Towards a Blockchain Assisted Patient Owned System for Electronic Health Records”
by Tomilayo Fatokun, Avishek Nag and Sachin Sharma
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 580; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050580
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/580

13. “Masked Face Recognition Using Deep Learning: A Review”
by Ahmad Alzu’bi, Firas Albalas, Tawfik AL-Hadhrami, Lojin Bani Younis and Amjad Bashayreh
Electronics 2021, 10(21), 2666; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10212666
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/21/2666

14. “A Survey on Applications of Reinforcement Learning in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks”
by Sifat Rezwan and Wooyeol Choi
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 449; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040449
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/449

15. “Blockchain-Based Security Mechanism for the Medical Data at Fog Computing Architecture of Internet of Things”
by Desire Ngabo, Dong Wang, Celestine Iwendi, Joseph Henry Anajemba, Lukman Adewale Ajao and Cresantus Biamba
Electronics 2021, 10(17), 2110; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10172110
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2110

16. “Multi-Layer Latency Aware Workload Assignment of E-Transport IoT Applications in Mobile Sensors Cloudlet Cloud Networks”
by Abdullah Lakhan, Mazhar Ali Dootio, Tor Morten Groenli, Ali Hassan Sodhro and Muhammad Saddam Khokhar
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1719; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141719
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1719

17. “Fake News Data Exploration and Analytics”
by Mazhar Javed Awan, Awais Yasin, Haitham Nobanee, Ahmed Abid Ali, Zain Shahzad, Muhammad Nabeel, Azlan Mohd Zain and Hafiz Muhammad Faisal Shahzad
Electronics 2021, 10(19), 2326; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10192326
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/19/2326

18. “Secured Big Data Analytics for Decision-Oriented Medical System Using Internet of Things”
by Amjad Rehman, Khalid Haseeb, Tanzila Saba, Jaime Lloret and Usman Tariq
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1273; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111273
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1273

19. “Secure Watermarking Schemes and Their Approaches in the IoT Technology: An Overview”
by Raniyah Wazirali, Rami Ahmad, Ahmed Al-Amayreh, Mohammad Al-Madi and Ala’ Khalifeh
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1744; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141744
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1744

20. “_INTIME: A Machine Learning-Based Framework for Gathering and Leveraging Web Data to Cyber-Threat Intelligence”
by Paris Koloveas, Thanasis Chantzios, Sofia Alevizopoulou, Spiros Skiadopoulos and Christos Tryfonopoulos
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 818; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070818
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/818

The International Day of Human Space Flight commemorates the first manned space flight by the Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961. This day was declared the International Day of Human Space Flight in 2011 by the United Nations General Assembly resolution, to celebrate the beginning of the human space age. It reaffirms the important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable development goals and increasing the well-being of countries and people, as well as ensuring the realization of their aspiration to preserve outer space for peaceful purposes. 

In the course of human exploration of space, we have established many remarkable achievements and breakthrough milestones:

• In 1957, the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik I, was launched into outer space;
• In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth;
• In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot upon the surface of the Moon;
• In 1996, the first spacecraft in human history successfully landed on Mars;
• In 1998, the International Space Station, a 16-nation international space program, launched for the first time;
• In 2009, the Kepler space telescope was launched, which has helped humans find thousands of exoplanets;
• In 2015, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket and recovered the first stage. 

To further explore the information about space on the 2023 International Day of Human Space Flight, we have gathered academic research from several journals on the topic of space flight, all of which are open access, enabling practitioners, policymakers and people around the world to access and share up-to-date scientific knowledge. 

Let us celebrate the International Day of Human Space Flight together.

The ORIGIN Space Instrument for Detecting Biosignatures and Habitability Indicators on a Venus Life Finder Mission Aerospace 2022, 9(6), 312; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9060312
Venus Life Finder Missions Motivation and Summary Aerospace 2022, 9(7), 385; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9070385
Theoretical and Observational Constraints on Lunar Orbital Evolution in the Three-Body Earth-Moon-Sun System Astronomy 2022, 1(2), 58-83; https://doi.org/10.3390/astronomy1020007
Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Imaging Simulation of the Distant Planetary Magnetosphere and ENA Emission Discussion of the Solar Wind Astronomy 2022, 1(3), 235-245; https://doi.org/10.3390/astronomy1030013
Revisiting Fractional Cosmology Fractal Fract. 2023, 7(2), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract7020149
Special Issue: Orbit Determination Methods for Space Missions and Applications to the Exploration of the Solar System	Special Issue: Feature Papers in the Astronomical Sciences

Whirl Tower Demonstration of an SMA Blade Twist System Actuators 2022, 11(6), 141; https://doi.org/10.3390/act11060141
A Tutorial and Review on Flight Control Co-Simulation Using Matlab/Simulink and Flight Simulators Automation 2022, 3(3), 486-510; https://doi.org/10.3390/automation3030025
Reconfigurable Fault-Tolerant Control for Spacecraft Formation Flying Based on Iterative Learning Algorithms Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(5), 2485; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12052485
Wilderness Search for Lost Persons Using a Multimodal Aerial-Terrestrial Robot Team Robotics 2022, 11(3), 64; https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics11030064
Special Issue: Advances in CubeSat Sails and Tethers	Special Issue: Aerospace Mechanisms and Actuation
Special Issue: Advanced Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control Technology of Spacecraft	Special Issue: Smart Sensors and Devices: Recent Advances and Applications

Investigation of UAV Detection by Different Solid-State Marine Radars Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2502; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162502
Edge Machine Learning for the Automated Decision and Visual Computing of the Robots, IoT Embedded Devices or UAV-Drones Electronics 2022, 11(21), 3507; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11213507
Autonomous Tracking of ShenZhou Reentry Capsules Based on Heterogeneous UAV Swarms Drones 2023, 7(1), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7010020
A Human-Detection Method Based on YOLOv5 and Transfer Learning Using Thermal Image Data from UAV Perspective for Surveillance System Drones 2022, 6(10), 290; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6100290
Multi-UAV Conflict Resolution with Graph Convolutional Reinforcement Learning Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(2), 610; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020610
Special Issue: Control and Applications of Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle	Special Issue: Navigation, Control and Mission Planning Advances for Safe, Efficient and Autonomous Drones

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

One Review:
“Evaluating the Quality of Machine Learning Explanations: A Survey on Methods and Metrics”
by Jianlong Zhou, Amir H. Gandomi, Fang Chen and Andreas Holzinger
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 593; doi:10.3390/electronics10050593

Two Articles:
“A Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Kiwifruit Defects Based on YOLOv5”
by Jia Yao, Jiaming Qi, Jie Zhang, Hongmin Shao, Jia Yang and Xin Li
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1711; doi:10.3390/electronics10141711

“Automated Workers’ Ergonomic Risk Assessment in Manual Material Handling Using sEMG Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning”
by Srimantha E. Mudiyanselage, Phuong Hoang Dat Nguyen, Mohammad Sadra Rajabi and Reza Akhavian
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2558; doi:10.3390/electronics10202558

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Electronics before the end of 2023.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Electronics 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for their continued support of Electronics.

This announcement is delivered on behalf of the Assessment Committee—Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero, Prof. Dr. Nurul I. Sarkar, Dr. Giambattista Gruosso and Prof. Dr. Lei Zhang.

Electronics Editorial Office

Power electronics has emerged as a key technology in the conversion and control of electrical power in multiple applications: electric drives and generators, renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, smart cities, smart grids, power systems, transport (vehicles, aircraft, ships, and others), industrial, medical, military, telecommunications, and consumable and home apparatus.

The Section “Power Electronics” is devoted to publishing original research and state-of-the-art review papers on emerging technologies and trends in power electronics, including components, circuits, design, modeling, simulation, control, implementation, testing, and analysis of power electronics and their applications.

As Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) is in an Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 listed below:

1. “Learning-Based Methods for Cyber Attacks Detection in IoT Systems: A Survey on Methods, Analysis, and Future Prospects”
   by Usman Inayat, Muhammad Fahad Zia, Sajid Mahmood, Haris M. Khalid and Mohamed Benbouzid
   Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1502; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091502
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1502

2. “Parameter Extraction of Solar Module Using the Sooty Tern Optimization Algorithm”
   by Abha Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Shailendra Rajput, Amit Kumar Mondal, Amarnath Bose and Mangey Ram
   Electronics 2022, 11(4), 564; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040564
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/564

3. “Accurate Photovoltaic Models Based on an Adaptive Opposition Artificial Hummingbird Algorithm”
   by Abdelhady Ramadan, Salah Kamel, Mohamed H. Hassan, Emad M. Ahmed and Hany M. Hasanien
   Electronics 2022, 11(3), 318; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030318
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/318

4. “A Survey on Capacitor Voltage Control in Neutral-Point-Clamped Multilevel Converters”
   by Salvador Alepuz, Sergio Busquets-Monge, Joan Nicolás-Apruzzese, Àlber Filbà-Martínez, Josep Bordonau, Xibo Yuan and Samir Kouro
   Electronics 2022, 11(4), 527; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040527
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/527

5. “New High-Gain Transformerless DC/DC Boost Converter System”
   by Hassan Yousif Ahmed, Omar Abdel-Rahim and Ziad M. Ali
   Electronics 2022, 11(5), 734; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050734
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/734

6. “A Review of Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Electric Vehicle Battery Charging with a Focus on Inductive Coupling”
   by Iman Okasili, Ahmad Elkhateb and Timothy Littler
   Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1355; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091355
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1355

7. “Coordinated Control of Voltage Balancers for the Regulation of Unbalanced Voltage in a Multi-Node Bipolar DC Distribution Network”
   by Chunsheng Guo, Yuhong Wang and Jianquan Liao
   Electronics 2022, 11(1), 166; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010166
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/166

8. “Diagnosis and Fault Detection of Rotor Bars in Squirrel Cage Induction Motors Using Combined Park’s Vector and Extended Park’s Vector Approaches”
   by Mustapha Messaoudi, Aymen Flah, Abdullah Alhumaidi Alotaibi, Ahmed Althobaiti, Lassaad Sbita and Claude Ziad El-Bayeh
   Electronics 2022, 11(3), 380; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030380
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/380

9. “Direct Sliding Mode Control for Dynamic Instabilities in DC-Link Voltage of Standalone Photovoltaic Systems with a Small Capacitor”
   by Ibrahim Al-Wesabi, Zhijian Fang, Zhiguo Wei and Hanlin Dong
   Electronics 2022, 11(1), 133; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010133
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/133

10. “Digital Technology Implementation in Battery-Management Systems for Sustainable Energy Storage: Review, Challenges, and Recommendations”
    by Gopal Krishna, Rajesh Singh, Anita Gehlot, Shaik Vaseem Akram, Neeraj Priyadarshi and Bhekisipho Twala
    Electronics 2022, 11(17), 2695; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11172695
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/17/2695

11. “Threat Modeling of a Smart Grid Secondary Substation”
    by Filip Holik, Lars Halvdan Flå, Martin Gilje Jaatun, Sule Yildirim Yayilgan and Jørn Foros
    Electronics 2022, 11(6), 850; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060850
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/850

12. “An Investigation on Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Parameter Optimization of PV Cells”
    by Abha Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Shailendra Rajput, Amarnath Bose and Xinghao Hu
    Electronics 2022, 11(6), 909; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060909
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/909

13. “Performance Evaluation of Solar-PV-Based Non-Isolated Switched-Inductor and Switched-Capacitor High-Step-Up Cuk Converter”
    by Neeraj Priyadarshi, Mahajan Sagar Bhaskar, Farooque Azam, Mayank Singh, Dheeraj Kumar Dhaked, Ibrahim B. M. Taha and Mohamed G. Hussien
    Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1381; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091381
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1381

14. “Renewable Energy Micro-Grid Interfacing: Economic and Environmental Issues”
    by Adel A. Abou El-Ela, Ragab A. El-Sehiemy, Sohir M. Allam, Abdullah M. Shaheen, Nadia A. Nagem and Adel M. Sharaf
    Electronics 2022, 11(5), 815; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050815
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/815

15. “Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations: A Historical Overview of Engineering Challenges”
    by Franc Mihalič, Mitja Truntič and Alenka Hren
    Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2462; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152462
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2462

16. “Design of Open-Ended Structure Wideband PCB Rogowski Coil Based on New Winding Method”
    by Qinghua Tan, Wenbin Zhang, Xiangyu Tan, Le Yang, Yanan Ren and Yang Hu
    Electronics 2022, 11(3), 381; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030381
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/381

17. “New Modulation Technique in Smart Grid Interfaced Multilevel UPQC-PV Controlled via Fuzzy Logic Controller”
    by Hassan Kenjrawy, Carlo Makdisie, Issam Houssamo and Nabil Mohammed
    Electronics 2022, 11(6), 919; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060919
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/919

18. “Requirements for Energy-Harvesting-Driven Edge Devices Using Task-Offloading Approaches”
    by Meriam Ben Ammar, Imed Ben Dhaou, Dhouha El Houssaini, Salwa Sahnoun, Ahmed Fakhfakh and Olfa Kanoun
    Electronics 2022, 11(3), 383; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030383
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/383

19. “High-Voltage Drivers Based on Forming Lines with Extended Quasi-Rectangular Pulses for High-Power Microwave Oscillators”
    by Vladislav V. Rostov, Alexei S. Stepchenko, Pavel V. Vykhodtsev and Ruslan V. Tsygankov
    Electronics 2022, 11(3), 406; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030406
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/406

20. “Multiple-Output DC–DC Converters: Applications and Solutions”
    by Salvador P. Litrán, Eladio Durán, Jorge Semião and Cristian Díaz-Martín
    Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1258; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081258
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1258

MDPI will be attending the 2023 IEEE 6th International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET 2023) in Chengdu, China, which will take place from 12 to 15 May 2023. The primary aim of ICET 2023 is to offer an academic platform for senior and young scientists from all over the world to exchange research ideas and share knowledge, development, and experiences on topics related to their experimental and theoretical work in the very widespread field of electronics and micro/nanoelectronics technology and electronic packaging in a convenient and multicultural atmosphere.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics;
• Energies;
• Sensors;
• Actuators;
• Aerospace;
• Machines;
• Photonics;
• Smart Cities;
• Symmetry.

If you are attending this conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://icet.net//.

The Section “Microwave and Wireless Communications” invites advanced theories and technologies across a wide spectrum. These can be related to microwave and millimeter wave communication, including radar sensor, etc., which may be a fundament or application, element or system, hardware or software, methodology theory or measurement. We hope to present state-of-the-art technologies in this Section.

As Electronics is an Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below:

1. “A Road towards 6G Communication—A Review of 5G Antennas, Arrays, and Wearable Devices”
by Muhammad Ikram, Kamel Sultan, Muhammad Faisal Lateef and Abdulrahman S. M. Alqadami
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 169; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010169
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/169

2. “A Survey on LoRaWAN Technology: Recent Trends, Opportunities, Simulation Tools and Future Directions”
by Mukarram A. M. Almuhaya, Waheb A. Jabbar, Noorazliza Sulaiman and Suliman Abdulmalek
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 164; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010164
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/164

3. “A Novel Meander Bowtie-Shaped Antenna with Multi-Resonant and Rejection Bands for Modern 5G Communications”
by Yanal S. Faouri, Sarosh Ahmad, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Chan Hwang See and Raed Abd-Alhameed
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 821; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050821
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/821

4. “AlexNet Convolutional Neural Network for Disease Detection and Classification of Tomato Leaf”
by Hsing-Chung Chen, Agung Mulyo Widodo, Andika Wisnujati, Mosiur Rahaman, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Liukui Chen and Chien-Erh Weng
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 951; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060951
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/951

5. “A Multi-Slot Two-Antenna MIMO with High Isolation for Sub-6 GHz 5G/IEEE802.11ac/ax/C-Band/X-Band Wireless and Satellite Applications”
by Abdullah G. Alharbi, Jayshri Kulkarni, Arpan Desai, Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim and Ajay Poddar
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 473; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030473
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/473

6. “High-Isolation MIMO Antenna for 5G Millimeter-Wave Communication Systems”
by Muhammad Bilal, Syeda Iffat Naqvi, Niamat Hussain, Yasar Amin and Nam Kim
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 962; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060962
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/962

7. “Recent Studies Utilizing Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Solving Data Collection, Aggregation and Dissemination Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review”
by Walid Osamy, Ahmed M. Khedr, Ahmed Salim, Amal Ibrahim AlAli and Ahmed A. El-Sawy
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 313; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030313
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/313

8. “Design and Characterization of Compact Broadband Antenna and Its MIMO Configuration for 28 GHz 5G Applications”
by Musa Hussain, Esraa Mousa Ali, Syed Muhammad Rizvi Jarchavi, Abir Zaidi, Ali Imran Najam, Abdullah Alhumaidi Alotaibi, Ahmed Althobaiti and Sherif S. M. Ghoneim
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 523; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040523
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/523

9. “Recent Developments and Challenges on Beam Steering Characteristics of Reconfigurable Transmitarray Antennas”
by Qasim Ali, Waseem Shahzad, Iftikhar Ahmad, Shozab Safiq, Xi Bin, Syed Muzahir Abbas and Houjun Sun
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 587; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040587
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/587

10. “Mobility Management Issues and Solutions in 5G-and-Beyond Networks: A Comprehensive Review”
by Maraj Uddin Ahmed Siddiqui, Faizan Qamar, Muhammad Tayyab, MHD Nour Hindia, Quang Ngoc Nguyen and Rosilah Hassan
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1366; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091366
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1366

11. “A Survey on CubeSat Missions and Their Antenna Designs”
by Sining Liu, Panagiotis Ioannis Theoharis, Raad Raad, Faisel Tubbal, Angelos Theoharis, Saeid Iranmanesh, Suhila Abulgasem, Muhammad Usman Ali Khan and Ladislau Matekovits
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 2021; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11132021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/2021

12. “Counteracting Selfish Nodes Using Reputation Based System in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”
by Muhammad Fayaz, Gulzar Mehmood, Ajab Khan, Sohail Abbas, Muhammad Fayaz and Jeonghwan Gwak
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 185; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020185
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/185

13. “Indoor Positioning System Based on Bluetooth Low Energy Technology and a Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithm”
by Primož Bencak, Darko Hercog and Tone Lerher
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 308; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030308
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/308

14. “Performance Analysis of Multi-User MIMO Schemes under Realistic 3GPP 3-D Channel Model for 5G mmWave Cellular Networks”
by Daniel Gaetano Riviello, Francesco Di Stasio and Riccardo Tuninato
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 330; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030330
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/330

15. “A Compact Sub-GHz Wide Tunable Antenna Design for IoT Applications”
by Rifaqat Hussain, Saad I. Alhuwaimel, Abdullah M. Algarni, Khaled Aljaloud and Niamat Hussain
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1074; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071074
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1074

16. “A Review on SIW and Its Applications to Microwave Components”
by Augustine O. Nwajana and Emenike Raymond Obi
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1160; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071160
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1160

17. “A New mm-Wave Antenna Array with Wideband Characteristics for Next Generation Communication Systems”
by Mehr E Munir, Abdullah G. Al Harbi, Saad Hassan Kiani, Mohamed Marey, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Jehanzeb Khan, Hala Mostafa, Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Abbas Khan and Chan Hwang See et al.
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1560; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101560
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1560

18. “Energy-Efficient Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures, Strategies, and Performance”
by Trupti Mayee Behera, Umesh Chandra Samal, Sushanta Kumar Mohapatra, Mohammad S. Khan, Bhargav Appasani, Nicu Bizon and Phatiphat Thounthong
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2282; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152282
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2282

19. “Interference Challenges and Management in B5G Network Design: A Comprehensive Review”
by Osamah Thamer Hassan Alzubaidi, MHD Nour Hindia, Kaharudin Dimyati, Kamarul Ariffin Noordin, Amelia Natasya Abdul Wahab, Faizan Qamar and Rosilah Hassan
Electronics 2022, 11(18), 2842; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11182842
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/18/2842

20. “Enhanced Millimeter-Wave 3-D Imaging via Complex-Valued Fully Convolutional Neural Network”
by Handan Jing, Shiyong Li, Ke Miao, Shuoguang Wang, Xiaoxi Cui, Guoqiang Zhao and Houjun Sun
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010147
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/147

The “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)” Section in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) is focused on publications that are related to circuits and systems for artificial intelligence. The Section covers topics of interest within hardware-based deep learning AI and algorithmic deep learning AI using machine learning. It is dedicated to the publication of articles not only from the listed areas but also from similar or related areas. We encourage the submission of original contributions derived from theoretical and/or application-oriented research studies.

The subject areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Circuits and systems for artificial intelligence;
• Tools/platforms for artificial intelligence;
• Artificial intelligence computing;
• Advanced neural network design;
• Neuromorphic processors;
• Deep learning algorithms;
• Machine learning algorithms;
• Cloud artificial intelligence computing platforms;
• Hardware accelerators;
• Hardware design for artificial intelligence systems;
• Design automation for artificial intelligence systems;
• Emerging applications of artificial intelligence;
• Medical applications of artificial intelligence;
• Autonomous vehicle applications of artificial intelligence;
• Smart cities and environmental applications of artificial intelligence.

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the board and contributing to this section.

For more information, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/AICAS.

If you have any questions, please contact the Managing Editor Ms. Queena Cui (queena.cui@mdpi.com).

In the Section “Microwave and Wireless Communication”, we would like to invite advanced theories and technologies across a wide spectrum. These can be related to microwave and millimeter wave communication, including radar sensor, etc., which may be a fundament or application, element or system, hardware or software, methodology theory or measurement. We hope to present the state-of-the-art technologies in this Section.

As they are in an Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 below:

1. “Ubiquitous Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network Computing Using Deep Neural Network with IoT-Based Bat Agents for Traffic Management”
by Srihari Kannan, Gaurav Dhiman, Yuvaraj Natarajan, Ashutosh Sharma, Sachi Nandan Mohanty, Mukesh Soni, Udayakumar Easwaran, Hamidreza Ghorbani, Alia Asheralieva and Mehdi Gheisari
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 785; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070785
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/785

2. “A Quad-Port Dual-Band MIMO Antenna Array for 5G Smartphone Applications”
by Jianlin Huang, Guiting Dong, Jing Cai, Han Li and Gui Liu
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 542; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050542
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/542

3. “Infinity Shell Shaped MIMO Antenna Array for mm-Wave 5G Applications”
by Mian Muhammad Kamal, Shouyi Yang, Xin-cheng Ren, Ahsan Altaf, Saad Hassan Kiani, Muhammad Rizwan Anjum, Amjad Iqbal, Muhammad Asif and Sohail Imran Saeed
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 165; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020165
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/165

4. “A 28 GHz Broadband Helical Inspired End-Fire Antenna and Its MIMO Configuration for 5G Pattern Diversity Applications”
by Hijab Zahra, Wahaj Abbas Awan, Wael Abd Ellatif Ali, Niamat Hussain, Syed Muzahir Abbas and Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 405; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040405
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/405

5. “Dynamic Route Discovery Using Modified Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm in Wireless Ad-Hoc Visible Light Communication Network”
by Sharmila Vadivel, Srinivas Konda, Kavitha Rani Balmuri, Andrzej Stateczny and B. D. Parameshachari
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1176; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101176
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1176

6. “A Flexible and Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna with Small Dimensions and Simple Layout for Wireless Communication Systems Operating over 1.65–2.51 GHz”
by Adnan Ghaffar, Xue Jun Li, Wahaj Abbas Awan, Aqeel Hussain Naqvi, Niamat Hussain, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari and Ernesto Limiti
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 601; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050601
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/601

7. “Design and Synthesis of Multi-Mode Bandpass Filter for Wireless Applications”
by Satheeshkumar Palanisamy, Balakumaran Thangaraju, Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf, Youseef Alotaibi and Saleh Alghamdi
Electronics 2021, 10(22), 2853; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10222853
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/22/2853

8. “Design and Realization of a Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna with Wide, Dual, and Single-Band Operations for Compact Sized Wireless Applications”
by Wahaj Abbas Awan, Syeda Iffat Naqvi, Wael Abd Ellatif Ali, Niamat Hussain, Amjad Iqbal, Huy Hung Tran, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari and Ernesto Limiti
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1321; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111321
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1321

9. “Design of a MIMO Antenna with High Gain and Enhanced Isolation for WLAN Applications”
by He Peng, Ruixing Zhi, Qichao Yang, Jing Cai, Yi Wan and Gui Liu
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1659; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141659
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1659

10. “8-Port Semi-Circular Arc MIMO Antenna with an Inverted L-Strip Loaded Connected Ground for UWB Applications”
by Tathababu Addepalli, Arpan Desai, Issa Elfergani, N. Anveshkumar, Jayshri Kulkarni, Chemseddine Zebiri, Jonathan Rodriguez and Raed Abd-Alhameed
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1476; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121476
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1476

11. “Compact Quad-Element High-Isolation Wideband MIMO Antenna for mm-Wave Applications”
by Daniyal Ali Sehrai, Muhammad Asif, Nosherwan Shoaib, Muhammad Ibrar, Saeedullah Jan, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Ali Lalbakhsh and Ernesto Limiti
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1300; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111300
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1300

12. “Leveraging Machine-Learning for D2D Communications in 5G/Beyond 5G Networks”
by Sherief Hashima, Basem M. ElHalawany, Kohei Hatano, Kaishun Wu and Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 169; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020169
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/169

13. “E-Shaped H-Slotted Dual Band mmWave Antenna for 5G Technology”
by Kiran Raheel, Ahsan Altaf, Arbab Waheed, Saad Hassan Kiani, Daniyal Ali Sehrai, Faisel Tubbal and Raad Raad
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1019; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1019

14. “Donut-Shaped mmWave Printed Antenna Array for 5G Technology”
by Mian Muhammad Kamal, Shouyi Yang, Saad Hassan Kiani, Muhammad Rizwan Anjum, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Zulfiqar Ali Arain, Abdul Aleem Jamali, Ali Lalbakhsh and Ernesto Limiti
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1415; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121415
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1415

15. “A Textile EBG-Based Antenna for Future 5G-IoT Millimeter-Wave Applications”
by EL May Wissem, Imen Sfar, Lotfi Osman and Jean-Marc Ribero
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 154; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020154
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/154

16. “Survey of Millimeter-Wave Propagation Measurements and Models in Indoor Environments”
by Ahmed Al-Saman, Michael Cheffena, Olakunle Elijah, Yousef A. Al-Gumaei, Sharul Kamal Abdul Rahim and Tawfik Al-Hadhrami
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1653; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141653
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1653

17. “A Novel Hook-Shaped Antenna Operating at 28 GHz for Future 5G mmwave Applications”
by Mian Muhammad Kamal, Shouyi Yang, Saad Hassan Kiani, Daniyal Ali Sehrai, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Mujeeb Abdullah, Francisco Falcone, Ernesto Limiti and Mehre Munir
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 673; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060673
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/673

18. “Research Challenges and Opportunities in Drone Forensics Models”
by Arafat Al-Dhaqm, Richard A. Ikuesan, Victor R. Kebande, Shukor Razak and Fahad M. Ghabban
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1519; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131519
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1519

19. “Massive MIMO Techniques for 5G and Beyond—Opportunities and Challenges”
by David Borges, Paulo Montezuma, Rui Dinis and Marko Beko
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1667; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141667
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1667

20. “Design and Analysis of Wideband Flexible Self-Isolating MIMO Antennas for Sub-6 GHz 5G and WLAN Smartphone Terminals”
by Jayshri Kulkarni, Abdullah G. Alharbi, Arpan Desai, Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim and Ajay Poddar
Electronics 2021, 10(23), 3031; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10233031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/23/3031

The Section “Power Electronics” is devoted to publishing original research and state-of-the-art review papers on emerging technologies and trends in power electronics, including components, circuits, design, modeling, simulation, control, implementation, testing, and analysis of power electronics and its applications.

As Electronics is of Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 below:

1. “Role of Wide Bandgap Materials in Power Electronics for Smart Grids Applications”
by Javier Ballestín-Fuertes, Jesús Muñoz-Cruzado-Alba, José F. Sanz-Osorio and Erika Laporta-Puyal
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 677; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060677
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/677

2. “Review of Electric Vehicle Converter Configurations, Control Schemes and Optimizations: Challenges and Suggestions”
by Molla S. Hossain Lipu, Mohammad Faisal, Shaheer Ansari, Mahammad A. Hannan, Tahia F. Karim, Afida Ayob, Aini Hussain, Md. Sazal Miah and Mohamad Hanif Md Saad
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 477; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040477
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/477

3. “Fuzzy Logic-Based Direct Power Control Method for PV Inverter of Grid-Tied AC Microgrid without Phase-Locked Loop”
by Shameem Ahmad, Saad Mekhilef, Hazlie Mokhlis, Mazaher Karimi, Alireza Pourdaryaei, Tofael Ahmed, Umme Kulsum Jhuma and Suhail Afzal
Electronics 2021, 10(24), 3095; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243095
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/24/3095

4. “Voltage Stability of Power Systems with Renewable-Energy Inverter-Based Generators: A Review”
by Nasser Hosseinzadeh, Asma Aziz, Apel Mahmud, Ameen Gargoom and Mahbub Rabbani
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020115
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/115

5. “An Effective Method for Parameter Estimation of a Solar Cell”
by Abhishek Sharma, Abhinav Sharma, Moshe Averbukh, Vibhu Jately and Brian Azzopardi
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 312; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030312
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/312

6. “A Novel Solution Methodology Based on a Modified Gradient-Based Optimizer for Parameter Estimation of Photovoltaic Models”
by Mohamed H. Hassan, Salah Kamel, M. A. El-Dabah and Hegazy Rezk
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 472; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040472
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/472

7. “Electric Vehicles Charging Stations’ Architectures, Criteria, Power Converters, and Control Strategies in Microgrids”
by Dominic Savio Abraham, Rajesh Verma, Lakshmikhandan Kanagaraj, Sundar Rajan Giri Thulasi Raman, Narayanamoorthi Rajamanickam, Bharatiraja Chokkalingam, Kamalesh Marimuthu Sekar and Lucian Mihet-Popa
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1895; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161895
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1895

8. “Optimal Placement and Sizing of D-STATCOM in Radial and Meshed Distribution Networks Using a Discrete-Continuous Version of the Genetic Algorithm”
by Cristian Mateo Castiblanco-Pérez, David Esteban Toro-Rodríguez, Oscar Danilo Montoya and Diego Armando Giral-Ramírez
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1452; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121452
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1452

9. “Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries State-Condition in Electric Vehicle Applications: Issues and State of the Art”
by Khaled Laadjal and Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1588; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131588
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1588

10. “Trends and Challenges in Multi-Level Inverter with Reduced Switches”
by Ganesh Kumar Srinivasan, Marco Rivera, Vijayaraja Loganathan, Dhanasekar Ravikumar and Balaji Mohan
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040368
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/368

11. “Parameter Extraction of Photovoltaic Module Using Tunicate Swarm Algorithm”
by Abhishek Sharma, Ankit Dasgotra, Sunil Kumar Tiwari, Abhinav Sharma, Vibhu Jately and Brian Azzopardi
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 878; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080878
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/878

12. “Reduction of Losses and Operating Costs in Distribution Networks Using a Genetic Algorithm and Mathematical Optimization”
by Fabio Edison Riaño, Jonathan Felipe Cruz, Oscar Danilo Montoya, Harold R. Chamorro and Lazaro Alvarado-Barrios
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 419; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040419
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/419

13. “Review of Power Converter Impact of Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Circuits and Devices for Autonomous Sensor Applications”

by Mahidur R. Sarker, Mohamad Hanif Md Saad, José Luis Olazagoitia and Jordi Vinolas
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1108; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091108
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1108

14. “A New Approach for Power Losses Evaluation of IGBT/Diode Module”
by Hossein Hafezi and Roberto Faranda
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 280; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030280
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/280

15. “A Sustainable Energy Distribution Configuration for Microgrids Integrated to the National Grid Using Back-to-Back Converters in a Renewable Power System”
by Reza Alayi, Farhad Zishan, Mahdi Mohkam, Siamak Hoseinzadeh, Saim Memon and Davide Astiaso Garcia
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1826; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151826
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1826

16. “SPSO Based Optimal Integration of DGs in Local Distribution Systems under Extreme Load Growth for Smart Cities”
by Mian Rizwan, Muhammad Waseem, Rehan Liaqat, Intisar Ali Sajjad, Udaya Dampage, Saleh H. Salmen, Sami Al Obaid, Mohamed A. Mohamed and Andres Annuk
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2542; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202542
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2542

17. “A Comprehensive Survey on Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Testbed Architectures: Requirements and Challenges”
by Abdallah A. Smadi, Babatunde Tobi Ajao, Brian K. Johnson, Hangtian Lei, Yacine Chakhchoukh and Qasem Abu Al-Haija
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1043; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091043
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1043

18. “Energy-Efficient Fuzzy Management System for Internet of Things Connected Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”
by Imran Memon, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Riaz Ahmed Shaikh, Jamel Nebhen, Khairul Azmi Abu Bakar, Eklas Hossain and Muhammad Hanif Tunio
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1068; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091068
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1068

19. “Two Decades of Condition Monitoring Methods for Power Devices”
by Giovanni Susinni, Santi Agatino Rizzo and Francesco Iannuzzo
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 683; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060683
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/683

20. “Comparison of Different Design Alternatives for Hardware-in-the-Loop of Power Converters”
by Elyas Zamiri, Alberto Sanchez, Marina Yushkova, Maria Sofia Martínez-García and Angel de Castro
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 926; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080926
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/926

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The aim of the “Circuit and Signal Processing” Section is to host significant and original contributions and state-of-the-art review articles in this field of research. The scope of this Section is broad, ranging from mathematical foundations to practical engineering applications, measurement techniques, compliance verification, and reliability studies.

As they are published in an Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022:

2. “Ultra-Wideband Graphene-Based Micro-Sized Circular Patch-Shaped Yagi-like MIMO Antenna for Terahertz Wireless Communication”
by Mohammad Arif Sobhan Bhuiyan and Vishal Sorathiya
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1305; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091305
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1305

3. “CMOS Low-Dropout Voltage Regulator Design Trends: An Overview”
by Mohammad Arif Sobhan Bhuiyan, Md. Rownak Hossain, Khairun Nisa’ Minhad, Fahmida Haque, Mohammad Shahriar Khan Hemel, Omar Md Dawi, Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz and Kelvin J. A. Ooi
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 193; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020193
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/193

4. “New Resistor-Less Electronically Controllable ±C Simulator Employing VCII, DVCC, and a Grounded Capacitor”
by Giuseppe Ferri, Leila Safari, Gianluca Barile, Massimo Scarsella and Vincenzo Stornelli
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 286; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020286
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/286

5. “A New Realization of Electronically Tunable Multiple-Input Single-Voltage Output Second-Order LP/BP Filter Using VCII”

by Leila Safari, Gianluca Barile, Giuseppe Ferri, Mattia Ragnoli and Vincenzo Stornelli
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 646; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040646
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/646

6. “Volatile Memristor in Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons: Circuit Simulation and Experimental Study”
by Natasa M. Samardzic, Jovan S. Bajic, Dalibor L. Sekulic and Stanisa Dautovic
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 894; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060894
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/894

7. “Harvesting Systems for RF Energy: Trends, Challenges, Techniques, and Tradeoffs”
by Surajo Muhammad, Jun Jiat Tiang, Sew Kin Wong, Ali H. Rambe, Ismahayati Adam, Amor Smida, Mohamed Ibrahim Waly, Amjad Iqbal, Adamu Saidu Abubakar and Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 959; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060959
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/959

8. “A Different Approach for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Using Impedance Matching through Non-Isolated DC-DC Converters in Solar Photovoltaic Systems”
by Deepak Verma, Savita Nema, Rakeshwri Agrawal, Yashwant Sawle and Alok Kumar
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1053; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071053
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1053

9. “Signals Recognition by CNN Based on Attention Mechanism”
by Feng Tian, Li Wang and Meng Xia
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 2100; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11132100
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/2100

10. “Holistic Research on Blockchain’s Consensus Protocol Mechanisms with Security and Concurrency Analysis Aspects of CPS”
by Aniruddha Bhattacharjya, Remigiusz Wisniewski and Venkatram Nidumolu
Electronics 2022, 11(17), 2760; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11172760
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/17/2760

11. “Electronically Adjustable Grounded Memcapacitor Emulator Based on Single Active Component with Variable Switching Mechanism”
by Predrag B. Petrović
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 161; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010161
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/161

12. “Realization of an Electronically Tunable Resistor-Less Floating Inductance Simulator Using VCII”
by Leila Safari, Gianluca Barile, Davide Colaiuda, Vincenzo Stornelli and Giuseppe Ferri
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 312; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030312
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/312

13. “Learnable Wavelet Scattering Networks: Applications to Fault Diagnosis of Analog Circuits and Rotating Machinery”
by Varun Khemani, Michael H. Azarian and Michael G. Pecht
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 451; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030451
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/451

14. “Energy-Efficient Respiratory Anomaly Detection in Premature Newborn Infants”
by Ankita Paul, Md. Abu Saleh Tajin, Anup Das, William M. Mongan and Kapil R. Dandekar
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 682; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050682
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/682

15. “Fast Design Space Exploration and Multi-Objective Optimization of Wide-Band Noise-Canceling LNAs”
by Karim Elmeligy and Hesham Omran
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 816; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050816
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/816

16. “Inverse Analog Filters: History, Progress, and Unresolved Issues”
by Raj Senani, Data Ram Bhaskar and Ajishek Raj
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 841; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060841
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/841

17. “The Design Considerations and Challenges in MOS-Based Temperature Sensors: A Review”
by Shuang Xie
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1019; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1019

18. “An Overview of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Methods Using Adaptive Directional Time-Frequency Distributions”
by Pranav Kumar Eranti and Buket D. Barkana
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1321; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091321
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1321

19. “The Enhanced Energy Density of rGO/TiO2 Based Nanocomposite as Electrode Material for Supercapacitor”
by Palani Anandhi, Santhanam Harikrishnan, Veerabadran Jawahar Senthil Kumar, Wen-Cheng Lai and Alaa El Din Mahmoud
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1792; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111792
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1792

20. “GAINESIS: Generative Artificial Intelligence NEtlists SynthesIS”
by Konstantinos G. Liakos, Georgios K. Georgakilas, Fotis C. Plessas and Paris Kitsos
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 245; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020245
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/245

For publication in the “Computer Science & Engineering” Section, we would like to invite submissions on advanced theories and technologies across a wide spectrum of research. These can be related to computer science and engineering, including deep tech, edge computing, fog computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, emotional systems, Fintech, blockchain, IoT, Industry 4.0, smart cities, smart grids, intelligent textiles, distributed computing, as well as other chief technologies in this field. We hope to present state-of-the-art technologies in this Section.

As they are published in an Open Access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We encourage you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 listed below.

1. “A Systematic Review of the Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Aid Methods (1977–2022)”
by Marcio Pereira Basílio, Valdecy Pereira, Helder Gomes Costa, Marcos Santos and Amartya Ghosh
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1720; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111720
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1720

2. “A Hybrid Deep Learning-Based Approach for Brain Tumor Classification”
by Asaf Raza, Huma Ayub, Javed Ali Khan, Ijaz Ahmad, Ahmed S. Salama, Yousef Ibrahim Daradkeh, Danish Javeed, Ateeq Ur Rehman and Habib Hamam
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1146; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071146
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1146

3. “VoRtex Metaverse Platform for Gamified Collaborative Learning”
by Aleksandar Jovanović and Aleksandar Milosavljević
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 317; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030317
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/317

4. “Blockchain for IoT Applications: Taxonomy, Platforms, Recent Advances, Challenges and Future Research Directions”
by Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud, Abdelmuttlib Ibrahim Abdalla Ahmed, Mohammed Abaker, Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa, Hashim Albasheer, Sara Abdelwahab Ghorashi and Faten Khalid Karim
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 630; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040630
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/630

5. “A Deep Learning Model for Network Intrusion Detection with Imbalanced Data”
by Yanfang Fu, Yishuai Du, Zijian Cao, Qiang Li and Wei Xiang
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 898; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060898
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/898

6. “Detecting Cybersecurity Attacks in Internet of Things Using Artificial Intelligence Methods: A Systematic Literature Review”
by Mujaheed Abdullahi, Yahia Baashar, Hitham Alhussian, Ayed Alwadain, Norshakirah Aziz, Luiz Fernando Capretz and Said Jadid Abdulkadir
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 198; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020198
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/198

7. “Machine-Learning-Based Darknet Traffic Detection System for IoT Applications”
by Qasem Abu Al-Haija, Moez Krichen and Wejdan Abu Elhaija
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 556; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040556
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/556

8. “Forensic Analysis on Internet of Things (IoT) Device Using Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Framework”
by Muhammad Shoaib Mazhar, Yasir Saleem, Ahmad Almogre, Jehangir Arshad, Mujtaba Hussain Jaffery, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Muhammad Shafiq and Habib Hamam
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1126; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071126
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1126

9. “A Lightweight and Practical Anonymous Authentication Protocol Based on Bit-Self-Test PUF”
by Yang An, Yuejiao Zhang, Wenjun Cao, Zhiyan Tong and Zhangqing He
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 772; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050772
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/772

10. “A Survey on Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks and Hardware Acceleration”
by Deepak Ghimire, Dayoung Kil and Seong-heum Kim
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 945; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060945
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/945

11. “Classification and Analysis of Pistachio Species with Pre-Trained Deep Learning Models”
by Dilbag Singh, Yavuz Selim Taspinar, Ramazan Kursun, Ilkay Cinar, Murat Koklu, Ilker Ali Ozkan and Heung-No Lee
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 981; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11070981
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/981

12. “Automatic Face Mask Detection System in Public Transportation in Smart Cities Using IoT and Deep Learning”
by Tamilarasan Ananth Kumar, Rajendrane Rajmohan, Muthu Pavithra, Sunday Adeola Ajagbe, Rania Hodhod and Tarek Gaber
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 904; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060904
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/904

13. “The Role of Quality Measurements in Enhancing the Usability of Mobile Learning Applications during COVID-19”
by Mohammed Amin Almaiah, Fahima Hajjej, Rima Shishakly, Abdalwali Lutfi, Ali Amin and Ali Bani Awad
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 1951; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11131951
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/1951

14. Determinants Influencing the Continuous Intention to Use Digital Technologies in Higher Education
by Mohammed Amin Almaiah, Raghad Alfaisal, Said A. Salloum, Shaha Al-Otaibi, Omar Said Al Sawafi, Rana Saeed Al-Maroof, Abdalwali Lutfi, Mahmaod Alrawad, Ahmed Al Mulhem and Ali Bani Awad
Electronics 2022, 11(18), 2827; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11182827
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/18/2827

15. “Optimized Deep Learning Algorithms for Tomato Leaf Disease Detection with Hardware Deployment”
by Hesham Tarek, Hesham Aly, Saleh Eisa and Mohamed Abul-Soud
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010140
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/140

16. “A Machine Learning Method for Detection of Surface Defects on Ceramic Tiles Using Convolutional Neural Networks”
by Okeke Stephen, Uchenna Joseph Maduh and Mangal Sain
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 55; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010055
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/55

17. “Recent Advances in Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks with Applications in Image Processing”
by Haoran Liu, Mingzhe Liu, Dongfen Li, Wenfeng Zheng, Lirong Yin and Ruili Wang
Electronics 2022, 11(20), 3264; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11203264
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/20/3264

18. “Factors Influencing Students’ Continuous Intentions for Using Micro-Lectures in the Post-COVID-19 Period: A Modification of the UTAUT-2 Approach”
by Tommy Tanu Wijaya and Robert Weinhandl
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 1924; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11131924
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/1924

19. “IoMT-Based Platform for E-Health Monitoring Based on the Blockchain”
by Jalel Ktari, Tarek Frikha, Nader Ben Amor, Leila Louraidh, Hela Elmannai and Monia Hamdi
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2314; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152314
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2314

20. “BAIV: An Efficient Blockchain-Based Anonymous Authentication and Integrity Preservation Scheme for Secure Communication in VANETs”
by Azees Maria, Arun Sekar Rajasekaran, Fadi Al-Turjman, Chadi Altrjman and Leonardo Mostarda
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 488; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030488
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/488

The “Semiconductor Devices” Section in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) publishes original and significant contributions to the theory and performance of semiconductor devices and related materials, including devices, fabrication processes, simulation, quantum devices, hybrid devices, flexible electronic devices, novel semiconductors, semiconductor material, and device physics. Reviews on these subjects are published, and Special Issues dealing with specific topics are also published. 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Semiconductor device applications;
• Fabrication processing;
• Simulation (theory);
• Quantum devices;
• Hybrid electronic and semiconductor devices;
• Semiconductor devices for energy;
• Flexible devices;
• Semiconductor material and device physics;
• Novel semiconductor;
• 2D materials for devices;
• New technology for semiconductor devices;
• Semiconductor optoelectronic and photonic devices and processing. 

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the board and contributing to this Section. 

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Semiconductors. 

If you have any questions, please contact Section Managing Editor Ms. Hebbe Tian (hebbe.tian@mdpi.com).

The aim of the “Circuit and Signal Processing” Section is to host significant and original contributions and state-of-the-art review articles in this field of research. The scope of this Section is broad, ranging from mathematical foundations to practical engineering applications, measurement techniques, compliance verification, and reliability studies.

As they are published in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021:

1. “A New RBF Neural Network-Based Fault-Tolerant Active Control for Fractional Time-Delayed Systems”
by Bo Wang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1501; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121501
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1501

2. “Efficient Chaos-Based Substitution-Box and Its Application to Image Encryption”
by Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1392; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121392
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1392

3. “Dynamic Analysis of the Switched-Inductor Buck-Boost Converter Based on the Memristor”
by Yan Yang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 452; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040452
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/452

4. “Self-Biased and Supply-Voltage Scalable Inverter-Based Operational Transconductance Amplifier with Improved Composite Transistors”
by Luis Henrique Rodovalho et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 935; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080935
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/935

5. “The Contribution of Machine Learning and Eye-Tracking Technology in Autism Spectrum Disorder Research: A Systematic Review”
by Konstantinos-Filippos Kollias et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(23), 2982; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10232982
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/23/2982

6. “Structural Decomposition in FSM Design: Roots, Evolution, Current State—A Review”
by Alexander Barkalov et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1174; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101174
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1174

7. “Inductance Simulators and Their Application to the 4th Order Elliptic Lowpass Ladder Filter Using CMOS VD-DIBAs”
by Winai Jaikla et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 684; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060684
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/684

8. “A Neural Network Classifier with Multi-Valued Neurons for Analog Circuit Fault Diagnosis”
by Igor Aizenberg et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 349; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030349
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/349

9. “A Comparison of Deep Learning Methods for Timbre Analysis in Polyphonic Automatic Music Transcription”
by Carlos Hernandez-Olivan et al.
Electronics 2022, 10(7), 810; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070810
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/810

10. “Noise Efficient Integrated Amplifier Designs for Biomedical Applications”
by Sebastian Simmich et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1522; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131522
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1522

11. “Ultralow Voltage FinFET- Versus TFET-Based STT-MRAM Cells for IoT Applications”
by Esteban Garzón et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1756; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151756
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1756

12. “Acoustic Anomaly Detection of Mechanical Failures in Noisy Real-Life Factory Environments”
by Yuki Tagawa et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(19), 2329; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10192329
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/19/2329

13. “Skyrmion Logic-In-Memory Architecture for Maximum/Minimum Search”
by Luca Gnoli et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 155; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020155
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/155

14. “Reconfigurable Binary Neural Network Accelerator with Adaptive Parallelism Scheme”
by Jaechan Cho et al.
Electronics 2022, 10(3), 230; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030230
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/230

15. “Speech Processing for Language Learning: A Practical Approach to Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Teaching”
by Natalia Bogach et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 235; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030235
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/235

16. “The Impact of State-of-the-Art Techniques for Lossless Still Image Compression”
by Md. Atiqur Rahman et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 360; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030360
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/360

17. “Low-Complexity High-Throughput QC-LDPC Decoder for 5G New Radio Wireless Communication”
by Tram Thi Bao Nguyen et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 516; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040516
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/516

18. “The Frequency and Real-Time Properties of the Microcontroller Implementation of Fractional-Order PID Controller”
by Krzysztof Oprzędkiewicz et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 524; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050524
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/524

19. “An Interpretable Deep Learning Model for Automatic Sound Classification”
by Pablo Zinemanas et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 850; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070850
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/850

The primary focus of the “Computer Science & Engineering” Section is the field of advanced computer science and engineering. It presents high-quality papers that address state-of-the-art technology, including deep tech, edge computing, fog computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, emotional systems, fintech, blockchain, the IoT, Industry 4.0, smart cities, smart grids, intelligent textiles, and distributed computing, as well as other chief technologies in this field.

As they are published in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021:

1. “A Comparative Analysis of Object Detection Metrics with a Companion Open-Source Toolkit”
by Rafael Padilla et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 279; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030279
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/279

2. “Identification of Plant-Leaf Diseases Using CNN and Transfer-Learning Approach”
by Sk Mahmudul Hassan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1388; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121388
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1388

3. “Evaluating the Quality of Machine Learning Explanations: A Survey on Methods and Metrics”
by Jianlong Zhou et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 593; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050593
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/593

4. “Drone Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Review”
by Ahmad Taher Azar et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 999; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10090999
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/999

5. “A Review of Data-Driven Decision-Making Methods for Industry 4.0 Maintenance Applications”
by Alexandros Bousdekis et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 828; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070828
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/828

6. “A Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Kiwifruit Defects Based on YOLOv5”
by Jia Yao et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1711; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141711
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1711

7. “Hyperledger Healthchain: Patient-Centric IPFS-Based Storage of Health Records”
by Vinodhini Mani et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(23), 3003; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10233003
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/23/3003

8. “Image-Based Malware Classification Using VGG19 Network and Spatial Convolutional Attention”
by Mazhar Javed Awan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(19), 2444; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10192444
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/19/2444

9. “A Consolidated Review of Path Planning and Optimization Techniques: Technical Perspectives and Future Directions”
by Faiza Gul et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2250; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182250
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/18/2250

10. “Advances in Meta-Heuristic Optimization Algorithms in Big Data Text Clustering”
by Laith Abualigah et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020101
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/101

11. “Facial Emotion Recognition Using Transfer Learning in the Deep CNN”
by M. A. H. Akhand et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1036; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091036
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1036

12. “Botnet Attack Detection Using Local Global Best Bat Algorithm for Industrial Internet of Things”
by Abdullah Alharbi et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1341; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111341
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1341

13. “SDN-Enabled Hybrid DL-Driven Framework for the Detection of Emerging Cyber Threats in IoT”
by Danish Javeed et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 918; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080918
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/918

14. “A Machine Learning Approach for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems Based on Measurement Data”
by Sohrab Mokhtari et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 407; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040407
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/407

15. “Real-Time Face Mask Detection Method Based on YOLOv3”
by Xinbei Jiang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 837; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070837
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/837

16. “Smart Home Battery for the Multi-Objective Power Scheduling Problem in a Smart Home Using Grey Wolf Optimizer”
by Sharif Naser Makhadmeh et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 447; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040447
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/447

17. “A Review on Speech Emotion Recognition Using Deep Learning and Attention Mechanism”
by Eva Lieskovská et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1163; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101163
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1163

18. “Towards Secure Fog Computing: A Survey on Trust Management, Privacy, Authentication, Threats and Access Control”
by Abdullah Al-Noman Patwary et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1171; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101171
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1171

19. “A Novel Approach for Network Intrusion Detection Using Multistage Deep Learning Image Recognition”
by Jevgenijus Toldinas et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1854; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151854
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1854

20. “A Review of Plant Phenotypic Image Recognition Technology Based on Deep Learning”
by Jianbin Xiong et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(1), 81; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010081
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/1/81

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.

The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.

As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.

MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org

To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.

During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.

We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.

For more information, please visit Preprints.org.

Conference title: The 7th Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology (ACAIT 2023) 
Date: 3–5 November 2023
Location: Jiaxing, China
Website: https://www.acaitconf.com/

We are honored to host the 7th Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology in Jiaxing, China (ACAIT 2023). The city lies in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, where national high-end manufacturing industries including new energy vehicles and auto core parts, smart grid and new material industries have developed.

Under the theme of “Intelligence Creation, Welcome Future”, we are preparing plenary & keynote presentations and special sessions for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly-changing field. We would like you to enjoy not only the research side of the conference, but also the hospitality of Jiaxing and its citizens. We are looking forward to seeing you at ACAIT 2023.

Scope:

The program committee of ACAIT 2023 invites the submission of papers for the technical program of the conference. High-quality original submissions are welcome from research results and applications of all areas of AI including but not limited to the following areas:

• Image Analysis;
• Video Analysis;
• Medical Image Processing;
• Intelligent Vehicles;
• Machine Learning;
• Data Mining;
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning;
• Multimodality Information Fusion;
• Natural Language Processing;
• Swarm Intelligence;
• Intelligent Robot and Systems;
• Intelligent Control;
• Smart Medical Systems;
• Autonomous Systems;
• Other AI-enabled Applications.

Contact:
Tel: 023-62561406
Email: xb@cqut.edu.cn

Conference: The Fourth International Conference on Energy Storage Materials
Date: 13–16 April 2023

MDPI will be attending the Fourth International Conference on Energy Storage Materials as the exhibitor. With the theme of advanced energy storage materials and energy storage devices, this seminar invites well-known scholars and industry professionals from around the world to discuss the latest research progress and industrial development status and trends in advanced energy storage materials and devices from academic and industrial perspectives in order to promote the application process of energy storage materials and energy storage devices. The conference is held annually.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Batteries;
• Energies;

• Coatings;

• Sustainability;
• Materials;
• Electronics;
• Nanomaterials;
• Inorganics;
• Crystals;
• AppliedChem;
• Membranes;
• Electrochem;
• Applied Sciences;
• Metals;
• Molecules.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth: #9. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.icensm.ac.cn/eindex.html.

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)

Date: 29 May–2 June 2023
Place: London, UK

Machines (ISSN: 2075-1702) will be attending ICRA 2023 as an exhibitor. This meeting will take place from 29 May to 2 June 2023 in London, UK.

The largest and most prestigious event of the year in the robotics and automation calendar, the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will bring together the world's top academics, researchers, and industry representatives. With the conference taking place in the UK for the first time, London will provide the perfect backdrop to this world-class event.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Machines;
• Sensors;
• Actuators;
• Applied Sciences;
• Electronics;
• Robotics;
• Systems;
• JSAN;
• Technologies;
• Inventions;
• Designs;
• Drones;
• JMMP;
• Telecom;
• AI;
• Automation.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.icra2023.org/.

MDPI will be attending the XII Reunión del grupo de física de la materia condensada de la RSEF (GEFES 2023) in Salamanca, Spain, which will take place from 1 to 3 February 2023. The GEFES 2023 is the annual meeting of GEFES, the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the Spanish Royal Physics Society. The theme of GEFES 2023 is to review the condensed matter physics research achievements of the society in the past year and discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics;
• Nanomaterials;
• Energies;
• Materials;
• Symmetry;
• Electronic Materials;
• Physics;
• Condensed Matter.

If you are attending this conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://gefes2023.es/.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the MDPI Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program will enable early career researchers (who must hold a Ph.D. in a related field) to experience editing a Special Issue in MDPI journals, under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members or other experienced scientists. The mentor program will provide an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to gain editorial experience, and to cultivate their ability to edit scientific research.

The mentee’s responsibilities include:

• Proposing a Special Issue title and assisting the mentor in preparing a summary (around 200–400 words) and 3–10 keywords describing the background, importance, and goal of the Issue;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Preparing a list of scholars who may be interested in the Issue and personally e-mailing invitations on behalf of Guest Editors;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue together with the mentor.

The mentor’s responsibilities include:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Performing editorial control of the Special Issue and quality control of the publications, both of which must be carried out in a timely manner;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have any doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue;
• Making and submitting decisions regarding submissions with the assistance of mentees.

Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and early career researchers.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Editorial Office of a journal you choose, and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. The full list of MDPI journals is as follows: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, we will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals focusing on hot research topics.

MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.

This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.

Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.

Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.

Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.

As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.

A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.

MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.

"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!

We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.

The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).

The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.

Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Houqiang Fu.

Dr. Houqiang Fu is an assistant professor at the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, Temple, USA. Dr. Fu’s research interests are exploring novel materials and developing next-generation electronic and photonic/optoelectronic devices as well as systems to address critical societal needs in regard to energy efficiency, computing, communication, and sensing, which are at the interdisciplinary intersection of electrical engineering, materials science, photonics, and physics. Dr. Fu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2019, and he has an outstanding publication record; his work has been chronicled in over 160 journal and conference publications, 4 book chapters, 2 granted patents, and 10 pending patents. His research has been featured by many media outlets, including IEEE Spectrum, Semiconductor Today, Compound Semiconductor, and Silicon Valley Microelectronics, and has been collectively cited more than 16,000 times (Hirsch index of 25). He is a rising star in the field of third-generation wide-bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, in addition to their optoelectronic applications. Despite his young age, Dr. Fu has been the recipient of several academic prizes, including the 2021 ISU Regents Innovation Fund Award, the 2019 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Award (the highest honor for ASU ECEE Ph.D. graduates), and the 2018 ASU Outstanding Research Award. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Fu for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Fu will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, a certificate, and an offer to publish one paper free of charge in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) after peer review before the end of June 2023.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee Members—Dr. Xiongfeng Ma, Prof. Dr. Boris Andrievsky, Prof. Dr. Elias Stathatos, Dr. Nikolay Hinov, and Prof. Dr. Kiat Seng Yeo—we congratulate the winner on his accomplishments. We would also like to thank all of the nominators from various fields of study for their participation as well as all of the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief of Electronics

As the Editor-in-Chief of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292), I am pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics Travel Awards for 2022. The awards have been granted to Mr. Gia Quoc Bao Tran and Dr. Nishu Gupta.

Name: Gia Quoc Bao Tran
Affilaition: Ph.D. student at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Université PSL, France
Research interests: observer design for hybrid dynamical systems

Name: Nishu Gupta
Affilaition: Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Research interests: autonomous vehicles; edge computing; smart wireless systems; Internet of things; deep learning; ad hoc networks

Each winner will receive CHF 800 and a certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all of the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee—Dr. Maysam Abbod, Dr. Francisco Falcone, Dr. Ping-Feng Pai and Prof. Dr. Giulio Antonini—we congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief, Electronics

MDPI will be attending the 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC-AP 2022) in Haining, China, which will take place from 28 to 31 October 2022. The ITEC-AP 2022 is organized by Zhejiang University, and aims to provide a forum for sharing knowledge, experience, and ideas in electrical technologies for transportation. Technical sessions, tutorials, exhibitors, and industry activities are planned.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics;
• Machines;
• Actuators;
• Future Transportation;
• Electricity;
• Smart Cities;
• Sustainability;
• Vehicles.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://www.itec-ap2022.com/.

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.

To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.

We invite you to view the event recording:

During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:

• Peer Review Week 2022
• Research Integrity
• What We’ve Learned About Peer Review Reports
• 4 Steps to the Perfect Peer Review Report
• How to Write the Perfect Peer Review Report: An Interview
• Inviting Great Peer Reviewers

In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.

You can find the Podcast here.

We hope you enjoy the contents!

MDPI will be attending the 6th Micro-Nano Optical Technology and Application Conference (MOTA2022) in Nanjing, China, which will take place from 21 to 23 October 2022. The MOTA2022 is organized by the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, aiming to build a communication platform between researchers and industrial application teams, as well as promote scientific research progress and the industrialization development of micro-nano optics.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics (leading journal);
• Photonics (leading journal);
• Coatings;
• Sensors;
• Crystals;
• Journal of Imaging.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://b2b.csoe.org.cn/meeting/MOTA2022.html.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2022 IET International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Applications, which will be held from 14 to 16 October 2022, in Changhua, Taiwan.

The IET International Conference provides a platform for professionals, young scholars, and industry researchers to exchange the latest ideas in science and technology. The main theme of the IET ICETA 2022 is “Emerging Technologies and Applications for Smart Life”, allowing participants to discuss the recent applications regarding engineering technology and innovations.

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning;
• Internet of things;
• Audio/video systems and signal processing;
• Intelligent manufacturing;
• Semiconductors and integrated circuits;
• Green energy;
• Mechatronic integration;
• Communications and networks;
• Automation and control;
• Vehicle-to-everything and autonomous vehicles;
• Big data and clouds;
• Advanced computing and data sciences;
• RF and microwave;
• Power devices and systems;
• Security and privacy;
• Computer software and hardware;
• Consumer electronics;
• Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and cinematic reality;
• Optoelectronic materials, devices, circuits, and systems;
• Embedded systems;
• Advanced materials and devices;
• Sensors and actuators;
• Sustainable development;
• Technology and education;
• Advanced technologies and applications.

The Section “Electronic Multimedia” reports on electronic multimedia technology, tools, and the applications of electronic multimedia, including, but not limited to, circuits, networking, signal processing, systems, software, and systems integration.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “A Two-Stage GAN for High-Resolution Retinal Image Generation and Segmentation”
by Paolo Andreini et al.
Electronics 2021, 11(1), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010060
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/60

2. “A Survey on QoE-Oriented VR Video Streaming: Some Research Issues and Challenges”
by Jinjia Ruan and Dongliang Xie
Electronics 2021, 10(17), 2155; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10172155
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2155

3. “Semi-Supervised Machine Condition Monitoring by Learning Deep Discriminative Audio Features”
by Iordanis Thoidis et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2471; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202471
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2471

4. “Using Flipped Classroom to Improve the Learning Effectiveness of Digital Logic Courses”
by Tuan-Yung Han et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1602; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131602
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1602

5. “Segmentation of Aorta 3D CT Images Based on 2D Convolutional Neural Networks”
by Simone Bonechi et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2559; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202559
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2559

The “Quantum Electronics” Section publishes original and significant contributions to the theory and experimental implementations on the topic of quantum electronics. More specifically, articles will be considered on superconducting circuits, semiconductor qubits, NV centers, and electron qubits in general. Connections to atomic, molecular, and optical physics, as well as to mechatronic systems (i.e., robots and drones) when combined with quantum science, are also welcome. We will also consider the relation to quantum artificial intelligence and quantum machine learning of electronic quantum systems. Reviews on these subjects as well as Special Issues dealing with specific topics are also published.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “T-Count Optimized Quantum Circuit Designs for Single-Precision Floating-Point Division”
by S. S. Gayathri et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 703; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060703
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/703

2. “Automated Quantum Hardware Selection for Quantum Workflows”
by Benjamin Weder et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 984; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080984
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/984

3. “Coreset Clustering on Small Quantum Computers”
by Teague Tomesh et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1690; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141690
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1690

4. “Design of a 20 T Class REBCO Insert in a 15 T Low Temperature Superconducting Magnet”
by Liangjun Shao et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1741; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141741
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1741

5. “Low-Power Multiplexer Structures Targeting Efficient QCA Nanotechnology Circuit Designs”
by Amjad Almatrood et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1885; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161885
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1885

Industrial electronics play a vital role in improving the efficiency and productivity of the energy, transportation, petroleum, chemical, semiconductor, mining, agriculture, and other industries. As a branch of electronics dealing with power electronic switches, sensors, actuators, meters, intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), automation equipment, semiconductors, nanotechnology, etc., the current emphasis is placed on power conditioning using power semiconductor devices in modernizing industry technology. This Section is devoted to presenting the emerging technologies and trends in the industrial electronics sector, publishing original research and state-of-the-art review articles.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below: 

1. “Solid-State DC Circuit Breakers and Their Comparison in Modular Multilevel Converter Based-HVDC Transmission System”
by Gul Ahmad Ludin et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1204; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101204
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1204

2. “DC Nanogrids for Integration of Demand Response and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures: Appraisal, Optimal Scheduling and Analysis”
by Salwan Ali Habeeb et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2484; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202484
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2484

3. “Design and Implementation of LoRa Based IoT Scheme for Indonesian Rural Area”
by Setya Widyawan Prakosa et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(1), 77; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010077
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/1/77

4. “Wind Turbine Operation Curves Modelling Techniques”
by Davide Astolfi
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 269; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030269
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/269

5. “A Simplified Output Feedback Controller for the DC-DC Boost Power Converter”
by Satyajit Chincholkar et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 493; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040493
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/493

6. “Hybrid Workload Enabled and Secure Healthcare Monitoring Sensing Framework in Distributed Fog-Cloud Network”
by Abdullah Lakhan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1974; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161974
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1974

7. “Artificial Intelligence-Based Decision-Making Algorithms, Internet of Things Sensing Networks, and Deep Learning-Assisted Smart Process Management in Cyber-Physical Production Systems”
by Mihai Andronie et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2497; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202497
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2497

8. “Advancing Logistics 4.0 with the Implementation of a Big Data Warehouse: A Demonstration Case for the Automotive Industry”
by Nuno Silva et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2221; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182221
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/18/2221

9. “Sequence to Point Learning Based on an Attention Neural Network for Nonintrusive Load Decomposition”
by Mingzhi Yang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1657; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141657
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1657

10. “Review on Energy Storage Systems in Microgrids”
by Ramy Georgious et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(17), 2134; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10172134
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2134

The “Power Electronics” Section is devoted to publishing original research and state-of-the-art review papers on emerging technologies and trends in power electronics, including components, circuits, design, modelling, simulation, control, implementation, testing and analysis of power electronics and their applications.

As they are of open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “Role of Wide Bandgap Materials in Power Electronics for Smart Grids Applications”
by Javier Ballestín-Fuertes et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 677; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060677
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/677

2. “An Effective Method for Parameter Estimation of a Solar Cell”
by Abhishek Sharma et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 312; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030312
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/312

3. “Review of Electric Vehicle Converter Configurations, Control Schemes and Optimizations: Challenges and Suggestions”
by Molla S. Hossain Lipu et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 477; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040477
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/477

4. “Parameter Extraction of Photovoltaic Module Using Tunicate Swarm Algorithm”
by Abhishek Sharma et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 878; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080878
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/878

5. “Energy-Efficient Fuzzy Management System for Internet of Things Connected Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”
by Imran Memon et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1068; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091068
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1068

6. “Reduction of Losses and Operating Costs in Distribution Networks Using a Genetic Algorithm and Mathematical Optimization”
by Fabio Edison Riaño et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 419; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040419
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/419

7. “A Novel Solution Methodology Based on a Modified Gradient-Based Optimizer for Parameter Estimation of Photovoltaic Models”
by Mohamed H. Hassan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 472; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040472
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/472

8. “Optimal Placement and Sizing of D-STATCOM in Radial and Meshed Distribution Networks Using a Discrete-Continuous Version of the Genetic Algorithm”
by Cristian Mateo Castiblanco-Pérez et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1452; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121452
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1452

9. “Voltage Stability of Power Systems with Renewable-Energy Inverter-Based Generators: A Review”
by Nasser Hosseinzadeh et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020115
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/115

10. “A New Approach for Power Losses Evaluation of IGBT/Diode Module”
by Hossein Hafezi and Roberto Faranda
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 280; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030280
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/280

11. “Reliability Analysis and Repair Activity for the Components of 350 kW Inverters in a Large Scale Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System”
by Filippo Spertino et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 564; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050564
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/564

12. “Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries State-Condition in Electric Vehicle Applications: Issues and State of the Art”
by Khaled Laadjal and Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1588; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131588
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1588

13. “Electric Vehicles Charging Stations’ Architectures, Criteria, Power Converters, and Control Strategies in Microgrids”
by Dominic Savio Abraham et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1895; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161895
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1895

14. “Trends and Challenges in Multi-Level Inverter with Reduced Switches”
by Ganesh Kumar Srinivasan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040368
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/368

15. “System Level Simulation of Microgrid Power Electronic Systems”
by Michal Frivaldsky et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 644; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060644
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/644

16. “Two Decades of Condition Monitoring Methods for Power Devices”
by Giovanni Susinni et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 683; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060683
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/683

17. “A New SOC Estimation for LFP Batteries: Application in a 10 Ah Cell (HW 38120 L/S) as a Hysteresis Case Study”
by Younghwi Ko and Woojin Choi
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 705; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060705
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/705

18. “A Sustainable Energy Distribution Configuration for Microgrids Integrated to the National Grid Using Back-to-Back Converters in a Renewable Power System”
by Reza Alayi et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1826; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151826
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1826

19. “Economic and Ecological Design of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems Based on a Developed IWO/BSA Algorithm”
by Mohammed Kharrich et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 687; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060687
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/687

20. “Research on Control Strategy of Isolated DC Microgrid Based on SOC of Energy Storage System”
by Jiechao Lv et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 834; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070834
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/834

The “Semiconductor Devices” Section publishes original and significant contributions around the theory and performance of semiconductor devices and related materials, including devices, fabrication processes, simulations, quantum devices, hybrid devices, flexible electronic devices, novel semiconductors, semiconductor materials, and device physics. We publish reviews on these subjects and Special Issues that deal with specific topics.

As they are of open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “In-Memory Computing with Resistive Memory Circuits: Status and Outlook”
by Giacomo Pedretti and Daniele Ielmini
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1063; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091063
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1063

2. “Study of Quantized Hardware Deep Neural Networks Based on Resistive Switching Devices, Conventional versus Convolutional Approaches”
by Rocío Romero-Zaliz et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 346; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030346
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/346

3. “Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET) and Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Based Ternary Combinational Logic Circuits”
by Furqan Zahoor et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(1), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010079
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/1/79

4. “Measurements and Computations of Internal Temperatures of the IGBT and the Diode Situated in the Common Case”
by Paweł Górecki and Krzysztof Górecki
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 210; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020210
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/210

5. “Influence of Selected Factors on Thermal Parameters of the Components of Forced Cooling Systems of Electronic Devices”
by Krzysztof Posobkiewicz and Krzysztof Górecki
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 340; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030340
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/340

6. “Multi-Level Switching of Al-Doped HfO2 RRAM with a Single Voltage Amplitude Set Pulse”
by Jinfu Lin et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 731; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060731
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/731

7. “Optimization of Multi-Level Operation in RRAM Arrays for In-Memory Computing”
by Eduardo Pérez et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1084; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091084
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1084

8. “Recent Progress on 3D NAND Flash Technologies”
by Akira Goda
Electronics 2021, 10(24), 3156; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243156
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/24/3156

9. “A Compact Modular 5 GW Pulse PFN-Marx Generator for Driving HPM Source”
by Haoran Zhang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 545; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050545
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/545

10. “Analysis of Electrothermal Effects in Devices and Arrays in InGaP/GaAs HBT Technology”
by Vincenzo d’Alessandro et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 757; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060757
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/757

The “Optoelectronics” Section addresses the following topics and considers mostly experimental work or theoretical/simulation work, either directly linked to or supporting the following fields: nanoelectronic and photonic devices, as well as their fabrication; microsystems, microdevices (e.g., sensors and nanoenergy devices), and their fabrication.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguide-Based Racetrack Integrated Circular Cavity for Refractive Index Sensing Application”
by Muhammad A. Butt et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1419; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121419
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1419

2. “Toward a Scalable Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells under Fully Ambient Air Atmosphere: From Spin-Coating to Inkjet-Printing of Perovskite Absorbent Layer”
by Aggeliki Karavioti et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1904; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161904
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1904

3. “A Review of the Reliability of Integrated IR Laser Diodes for Silicon Photonics”
by Matteo Buffolo et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(22), 2734; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10222734
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/22/2734

4. “Perylene Based Solution Processed Single Layer WOLED with Adjustable CCT and CRI”
by Volkan Bozkus et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 725; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060725
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/725

5. “Effects of Varying the Fin Width, Fin Height, Gate Dielectric Material, and Gate Length on the DC and RF Performance of a 14-nm SOI FinFET Structure”
by Nour El I. Boukortt et al.
Electronics 2021, 11(1), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010091
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/91

Flexible electronics have been attracting considerable attention in recent decades, not only at the academic but also at the industrial level. The development of electronic components/systems on highly flexible and possibly conformable substrates could allow the integration of smart functionalities, such as sensing capabilities, communication units, etc., onto any type of surface (paper, fabrics, etc.), opening up a wide range of possible applications.

As our journal follows an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in it. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “Development of Miniaturized Wearable Wristband Type Surface EMG Measurement System for Biometric Authentication”
by Siho Shin et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 923; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080923
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/923

2. “Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators with Diverse 3D-Spacer Fabrics for Improved Output Voltage”
by Dae-Hyeon Kwon et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 937; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080937
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/937 

3. “Temperature Measurement at Curved Surfaces Using 3D Printed Planar Resistance Temperature Detectors”
by Adam Steckiewicz et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1100; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091100
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1100 

4. “Washable, Low-Temperature Cured Joints for Textile-Based Electronics”
by Jerzy Szalapak et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(22), 2749; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10222749
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/22/2749

For publication in the “Microwave and Wireless Communications” Section, we would like to invite submissions on advanced theories and technologies across a wide spectrum of research. These can be related to microwave and millimeter-wave communications, including radar sensors, etc., fundamental applications, elements or systems, hardware or software, and methodology theories or measurements. We hope to present state-of-the-art technologies in this Section.

As they are published in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “Ubiquitous Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network Computing Using Deep Neural Network with IoT-Based Bat Agents for Traffic Management”
by Srihari Kannan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 785; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070785
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/785

2. “A Quad-Port Dual-Band MIMO Antenna Array for 5G Smartphone Applications”
by Jianlin Huang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 542; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050542
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/542

3. “Infinity Shell Shaped MIMO Antenna Array for mm-Wave 5G Applications”
by Mian Muhammad Kamal et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 165; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020165
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/165

4. “A 28 GHz Broadband Helical Inspired End-Fire Antenna and Its MIMO Configuration for 5G Pattern Diversity Applications”
by Hijab Zahra et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 405; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040405
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/405

5. “Dynamic Route Discovery Using Modified Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm in Wireless Ad-Hoc Visible Light Communication Network”
by Sharmila Vadivel et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1176; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101176
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1176

6. “Leveraging Machine-Learning for D2D Communications in 5G/Beyond 5G Networks”
by Sherief Hashima et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 169; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020169
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/169

7. “Compact Quad-Element High-Isolation Wideband MIMO Antenna for mm-Wave Applications”
by Daniyal Ali Sehrai et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1300; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111300
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1300

8. “E-Shaped H-Slotted Dual Band mmWave Antenna for 5G Technology”
by Kiran Raheel et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1019; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1019

9. “Design and Synthesis of Multi-Mode Bandpass Filter for Wireless Applications”
by Satheeshkumar Palanisamy et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(22), 2853; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10222853
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/22/2853

10. “Design and Realization of a Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna with Wide, Dual, and Single-Band Operations for Compact Sized Wireless Applications”
by Wahaj Abbas Awan et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1321; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111321
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1321 

11. “8-Port Semi-Circular Arc MIMO Antenna with an Inverted L-Strip Loaded Connected Ground for UWB Applications”
by Tathababu Addepalli et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1476; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121476
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1476

12. “Design of a MIMO Antenna with High Gain and Enhanced Isolation for WLAN Applications”
by He Peng et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1659; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141659
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1659 

13. “Multi-Monostatic Interferometric Radar for Bridge Monitoring”
by Lapo Miccinesi et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030247
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/247

14. “Edge Computing for Data Anomaly Detection of Multi-Sensors in Underground Mining”
by Chunde Liu et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 302; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030302
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/302

15. “Donut-Shaped mmWave Printed Antenna Array for 5G Technology”
by Mian Muhammad Kamal et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(12), 1415; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10121415
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/12/1415 

16. “A Textile EBG-Based Antenna for Future 5G-IoT Millimeter-Wave Applications”
by EL May Wissem et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 154; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020154
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/154 

17. “A Flexible and Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna with Small Dimensions and Simple Layout for Wireless Communication Systems Operating over 1.65–2.51 GHz”
by Adnan Ghaffar et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 601; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050601
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/601 

18. “Research Challenges and Opportunities in Drone Forensics Models”
by Arafat Al-Dhaqm et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1519; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131519
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1519

19. “Survey of Millimeter-Wave Propagation Measurements and Models in Indoor Environments”
by Ahmed Al-Saman et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1653; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141653
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1653

20. “Miniaturized Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna with Improved Bandwidth Using Exponential Strip Arms”
by Mohammad Mahdi Honari et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(1), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010083
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/1/83

The “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems” Section is focused on publications that are related to circuits and systems for artificial intelligence. This Section covers topics of interest within hardware-based deep learning AI and algorithmic deep learning AI using machine learning.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “FPGA Implementation for CNN-Based Optical Remote Sensing Object Detection”
by Ning Zhang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 282; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030282
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/282 

2. “Accelerating Neural Network Inference on FPGA-Based Platforms—A Survey”
by Ran Wu et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1025; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091025
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1025

3. “FPGA Accelerator for Gradient Boosting Decision Trees”
by Adrián Alcolea et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 314; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030314
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/314

4. “A Novel Hybrid Approach Based on Deep CNN to Detect Glaucoma Using Fundus Imaging”
by Rabbia Mahum et al.
Electronics 2021, 11(1), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/26

5. “Design and Implementation of Deep Learning Based Contactless Authentication System Using Hand Gestures”
by Aveen Dayal et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 182; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020182
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/182

6. “Forest Fire Smoke Recognition Based on Anchor Box Adaptive Generation Method”
by Enting Zhao et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 566; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050566
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/566

7. “Underwater Target Recognition Based on Improved YOLOv4 Neural Network”
by Lingyu Chen et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1634; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141634
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1634 

8. “Recurrent Neural Network for Human Activity Recognition in Embedded Systems Using PPG and Accelerometer Data”
by Michele Alessandrini et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1715; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141715
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1715 

9. “Gaining a Sense of Touch Object Stiffness Estimation Using a Soft Gripper and Neural Networks”
by Michal Bednarek et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(1), 96; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10010096
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/1/96

10. “Device-Free Crowd Counting Using Multi-Link Wi-Fi CSI Descriptors in Doppler Spectrum”
by Ramon F. Brena et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 315; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030315
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/315

The “Microelectronics” Section is dedicated to publishing original research articles and cutting-edge reviews for the applications of microelectronics in emerging, frontier, and challenging technologies. Electronics operating in extreme environments, such as vacuum, space, harsh radiation, extreme cold, and other niche applications, are today pushing microelectronic design beyond the frontier of standard electronics.

As our journal follows an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in it. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “A Unified and Open LTSPICE Memristor Model Library”
by Valeri Mladenov
Electronics 2021, 10(13), 1594; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131594
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/13/1594

2. “Sheet Resistance Measurements of Conductive Thin Films: A Comparison of Techniques”
by Mira Naftaly et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 960; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080960
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/960

3. “A New Cost-Efficient Design of a Reversible Gate Based on a Nano-Scale Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Technology”
by Saeid Seyedi et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1806; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151806
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1806

4. “AlGaN Channel High Electron Mobility Transistors with Regrown Ohmic Contacts”
by Idriss Abid et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(6), 635; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10060635
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/6/635

5. “UV-Based Technologies for SARS-CoV2 Inactivation: Status and Perspectives”
by Nicola Trivellin et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1703; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141703
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1703

6. “A Novel OTA Architecture Exploiting Current Gain Stages to Boost Bandwidth and Slew-Rate”
by Francesco Centurelli et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1638; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141638
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1638

7. “Influence of Active Channel Layer Thickness on SnO2 Thin-Film Transistor Performance”
by Do Won Kim et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020200
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/200

8. “A Triple-Cascode X-Band LNA Design with Modified Post-Distortion Network”
by Cheng Cao et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 546; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050546
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/5/546 

9. “Effects of Active Layer Thickness on the Electrical Characteristics and Stability of High-Mobility Amorphous Indium–Gallium–Tin Oxide Thin-Film Transistors”
by Dae-Hwan Kim et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1295; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111295
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1295

10. “All-Dielectric Metasurface for Sensing Microcystin-LR”
by Binze Ma et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1363; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111363
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1363

The “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles” Section addresses the different perspectives on the design, development, and usage of electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as their impact on people’s lives, on cities, and on power as well as energy systems. We welcome papers on innovative scientific and technical developments, sound case studies, and reviews which are relevant and/or related to “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles”. As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 listed below:

1. “Review of Electric Vehicle Technologies, Charging Methods, Standards and Optimization Techniques”
by Syed Muhammad Arif et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(16), 1910; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10161910
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1910

2. “Is There a Predisposition towards the Use of New Technologies within the Traffic Field of Emerging Countries? The Case of the Dominican Republic”
by Francisco Alonso et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1208; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101208
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1208

3. “An Enhanced Multicell-to-Multicell Battery Equalizer Based on Bipolar-Resonant LC Converter”
by Xuan Luo et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 293; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030293
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/293

4. “A Simulated Annealing Algorithm and Grid Map-Based UAV Coverage Path Planning Method for 3D Reconstruction”
by Sichen Xiao Azar et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 853; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070853
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/853

5. “A Survey of Trust Management in the Internet of Vehicles”
by Sarah Ali Siddiqui et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(18), 2223; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10182223
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/18/2223

6. “Ego-Motion Estimation Using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks through Optical Flow Learning”
by Baigan Zhao et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 222; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030222
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/222

7. “Machine Learning-Based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Using V2V Communications and On-Board Sensors”
by Dongho Choi et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 420; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040420
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/420

8. “An Optimization Model for Energy Community Costs Minimization Considering a Local Electricity Market between Prosumers and Electric Vehicles”
by Ricardo Faia et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 129; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020129
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/129

9. “Deep Feature-Level Sensor Fusion Using Skip Connections for Real-Time Object Detection in Autonomous Driving”
by Vijay John et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 424; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040424
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/424

10. “A Survey on Deep Learning Based Approaches for Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving”
by Zhiyang Guo et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 471; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040471
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/471

The primary focus of the “Bioelectronics” Section are topics that seek to utilize electronic knowledge and execution in the field of biology and medicine for health wellness with research efforts that cross disciplines, such as chemistry, life science, physics, electrical engineering, and materials science. Bioelectronic research works in a wide context, encompassing, for example, biosensors, bionics and biomaterials, DNA chips, lab-on-a-chip, innovative devices or advanced signal processes for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of physical and mental diseases, robotic devices for patient rehabilitation, bioelectromagnetics, artificial intelligence for improving health, conductive polymers, organic semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, graphene, wearable electronics, and implantable electronics, just to cite a few.

As they are published in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021:

1. “CNN Variants for Computer Vision: History, Architecture, Application, Challenges and Future Scope”
by Dulari Bhatt et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2470; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202470
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2470

2. “Automated Workers’ Ergonomic Risk Assessment in Manual Material Handling Using sEMG Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning”
by Srimantha E. Mudiyanselage et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2558; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202558
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/20/2558

3. “State-of-the-Art Optical Devices for Biomedical Sensing Applications—A Review”
by N. L. Kazanskiy et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(8), 973; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080973
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/8/973

4. “Multiclass ECG Signal Analysis Using Global Average-Based 2-D Convolutional Neural Network Modeling”
by Muhammad Wasimuddin et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(2), 170; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10020170
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/2/170

5. “Integration and Applications of Fog Computing and Cloud Computing Based on the Internet of Things for Provision of Healthcare Services at Home”
by Muhammad Ijaz et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(9), 1077; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091077
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/9/1077

6. “An Overview of Wearable Piezoresistive and Inertial Sensors for Respiration Rate Monitoring”
by Roberto De Fazio et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(17), 2178; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10172178
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2178

7. “Generating Synthetic ECGs Using GANs for Anonymizing Healthcare Data”
by Esteban Piacentino et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 389; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040389
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/389

8. “Deep Learning Methods for Classification of Certain Abnormalities in Echocardiography”
by Imayanmosha Wahlang et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 495; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040495
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/495

9. “Bone Metastasis Detection in the Chest and Pelvis from a Whole-Body Bone Scan Using Deep Learning and a Small Dataset”
by Da-Chuan Cheng et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(10), 1201; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10101201
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/10/1201

10. “GaborPDNet: Gabor Transformation and Deep Neural Network for Parkinson’s Disease Detection Using EEG Signals”
by Hui Wen Loh et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1740; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141740
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1740

The Section “Artificial Intelligence” mainly covers topics of interest within unique hardware-based deep learning AI and algorithmic deep learning AI using machine learning. The purpose of this Section is to bring together researchers and engineers, from both academia and industry, to present novel ideas and solid research on the hardware and algorithmic aspects of advanced applications of deep-learning-based AI.

As they are published in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2021 below:

1. “Biometric User Identification Based on Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors: An Experiment Using Deep Learning Models”
by Sakorn Mekruksavanich and Anuchit Jitpattanakul
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 308; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030308
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/308

2. “Novel Control Strategy for Enhancing Microgrid Operation Connected to Photovoltaic Generation and Energy Storage Systems”
by Dina Emara et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(11), 1261; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111261
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/11/1261

3. “Deep Convolutional Neural Network with RNNs for Complex Activity Recognition Using Wrist-Worn Wearable Sensor Data”
by Sakorn Mekruksavanich and Anuchit Jitpattanakul
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1685; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141685
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/14/1685

4. “Artificial Neural Networks Based Optimization Techniques: A Review”
by Maher G. M. Abdolrasol et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(21), 2689; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10212689
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/21/2689

5. “An Advanced CNN-LSTM Model for Cryptocurrency Forecasting”
by Ioannis E. Livieris et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 287; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030287
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/287

6. “A Fuzzy Logic Model for Hourly Electrical Power Demand Modeling”
by Marco Antonio Islas et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(4), 448; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040448
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/4/448 

7. “A Survey on Machine Learning-Based Performance Improvement of Wireless Networks: PHY, MAC and Network Layer”
by Merima Kulin et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(3), 318; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10030318
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/318

8. “Improved YOLOv3 Network for Insulator Detection in Aerial Images with Diverse Background Interference”
by Chuanyang Liu et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 771; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10070771
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/771

9. “Concrete Cracks Detection and Monitoring Using Deep Learning-Based Multiresolution Analysis”
by Ahcene Arbaoui et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1772; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151772
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/15/1772

10. “EWOA-OPF: Effective Whale Optimization Algorithm to Solve Optimal Power Flow Problem”
by Mohammad H. Nadimi-Shahraki et al.
Electronics 2021, 10(23), 2975; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10232975
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/23/2975

Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292) is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications. It publishes reviews, research articles, short communications, and letters. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers.

The Electronics editorial team is pleased to announce this open call for Special Issue proposals, which gives a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We would like to solicit high-quality proposals, which will be evaluated by a competitive procedure on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Proposals within the scope of the journal are welcome. For more details, please see the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/about.

If you would like to propose a Special Issue topic for this journal, please click on the following link and complete and submit the form: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/electronics. Our editors will get back to you shortly.

The duties and benefits of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:

• Publishing both a review paper and a research paper free of charge in the Special Issue, in addition to a potential discount for additional papers that you invite;
• Redefining the title and scope of the Special Issue;
• Circulating the call for papers for the Special Issue and inviting submissions;
• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted based on the reports that we collect;
• Promoting the Special Issue and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences;
• If ten or more papers are published in the Special Issue, we can make a Special Issue book and send a hard copy to each Guest Editor.

The Editorial Office will take care of setting up the Special Issue website, arrange the promotional materials, assist with invitations to contribute papers, and take care of the rest of the administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and professional production before publication.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (electronics@mdpi.com) for further details and clarification.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

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The Seventh International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD'2022) is an international forum allowing researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest theories, algorithms, models, and applications of data mining and big data, as well as artificial intelligence techniques. Data mining refers to examining big data sets to look for relevant or pertinent information. Big data contains huge amounts of data and information and is worthy of in-depth research.

DMBD'2022 is the seventh event, following the Guangzhou, Belgrade, Chiang Mai, Shanghai, Fukuoka and Bali events, at which hundreds of delegates from all over the world gathered to share their latest achievements, innovative ideas, and marvelous designs and their implementations.

This year's main theme is FinTech, and we will pay particular attention to technologies and applications in this area. We will also hold a quantitative trading competition.

The main topics of the conference are as follows:

• Quantitative investment;
• Market microstructure;
• Fraud detection;
• Risk prediction;
• Credit modeling;
• Individual financing;
• Financial theories;
• Financial activities modeling;
• Financial intelligent system.

• Machine learning;
• Statistical learning;
• Supervised learning;
• Unsupervised, self-supervised learning;
• Few-shot learning;
• Transfer learning;
• Reinforcement learning;
• Meta learning;
• Systems for data mining;
• Mining text, semi-structured, spatiotemporal, streaming, graph, web, multimedia data;
• Personalization and recommendation systems;
• Case-based reasoning;
• Similarity-based reasoning.

• Data models and architectures;
• Security, privacy, and trust;
• Data protection and integrity;
• Identity theft, data loss and leakage;
• Legal and ethical issues;
• Data analytics and metrics;
• Data representation and structures;
• Data management and processing;
• Data capturing and acquisition;
• Tools and technologies QoS in big data.

• Social networks analysis;
• Data searching and mining;
• Visualization of data;
• Personal data logging and quantified self;
• Context-aware data;
• Data economics;
• Applications of data mining and big data;
• Methodologies and use cases;
• Usability issues;
• Storages and network requirements;
• Network models and protocols;
• Big data in cloud and IoT;
• Techniques for big data processing.

The 9th International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation, and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications (MAPE 2022) will be held from 26 to 29 August 2022, in Chengdu, China. MAPE 2022 is sponsored by the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Beijing Jiaotong University and is technically supported by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. MAPE was initiated to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the foundation of IEEE Beijing Section in 2005. After several years, it has become the flagship wireless event of the IEEE Beijing Section, geared toward wireless communication industry professionals interested in the latest research and design.

This symposium will provide a multi-discipline forum allowing researchers and technologists in the fields of microwave, antenna, propagation, and EMC technologies to present new ideas and contributions in the form of technical papers and panel discussions on applications in the ever-growing area of wireless communications, such as 6G, NB-IoT, and LoRa.

Scope:

The topics of the symposium will cover all aspects of the theory and techniques of microwaves, antennas, propagation, and EMC necessary for wireless communications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Systems and Services:

• Mobile Satellite Communication;
• WLANs;
• Wireless Sensors and Ad Hoc Networks;
• MIMO Technologies;
• UWB and Impulse Radio;
• Space—Time Channel Characterization and Modeling;
• Terahertz Imaging and Sources;
• Cyber Electromagnetics;
• Internet of Things;
• High-Power Microwave Systems.

2. Microwave Electronics:

• Passive and Active Circuits;
• Power Amplifiers, Linearization, and Active Components;
• MMICs and Microwave Circuits;
• Microwave and Millimeter Wave ICs;
• Millimeter Wave and Sub-Millmeter Wave Components;
• Circuits and Systems.

3. Antennas:

• Microstrip and Printed Antennas;
• Active and Integrated Antennas;
• Array Antennas, Phased Arrays, and Feeding Circuits;
• Mobile and Base Station Antennas;
• Adaptive and Smart Antennas;
• Ultra-Wideband, Broadband, and Multi-band Antennas;
• Reconfigurable Antennas and Arrays;
• Millimeter Wave and Sub-Millimeter Wave Antennas;
• MEMS/Nanotechnology for Antennas.

4. Propagation:

• Mobile and Indoor Propagation;
• Millimeter and Optical Wave Propagation;
• Earth-Space and Terrestrial Propagation;
• Ionospheric Propagation;
• Propagation and Channel Characterization;
• Diversity Techniques and Fading Countermeasures;
• Signal Separation and Interference Rejection;
• Random Media and Rough Surfaces.

5. Electromagnetics:

• Electromagnetic Theory;
• Complex Media and Artificial Media;
• Computational Electromagnetics;
• Biomedical Application of Electromagnetic Waves;
• EM-Plasma Interaction;
• Space–Time Modulated Electromagnetics.

6. EMC Technologies:

• EMC Sources: Electromagnetic Environment, Lightning, Intentional EMI and EMP, High Power Electromagnetics, ESD, and UWB;
• EMC of Components and Integrated Circuits, PCB, Electronic Packaging and Integration;
• EMC in Power Systems and Power Quality;
• System Level EMC;
• EMC in Power Electronics;
• EMC in Smart Grids;
• EMC in Internet of Things;
• EMC in Communications: Wired and Wireless Communications, 6G, UWB, and Power Line Communications;
• EMC Standards, Management, and Regulations;
• EMC in Aerospace.

For further information, please refer to the conference website, or contact us via contact@ieee-mape.org.

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The academic editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal.

We are honored to present the winners in the “Engineering” category, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

Actuators:

• “Position Control of Pneumatic Actuators Using Three-Mode Discrete-Valued Model Predictive Control”
  by Haitao Qi, Gary M. Bone and Yile Zhang
  Actuators 2019, 8(3), 56; doi: 10.3390/act8030056
• “Review of Electrothermal Actuators and Applications”
  by Alissa Potekhina and Changhai Wang
  Actuators 2019, 8(4), 69; doi: 10.3390/act8040069

Batteries:

• “Pre-Lithiation Strategies for Rechargeable Energy Storage Technologies: Concepts, Promises and Challenges”
  by Florian Holtstiege, Peer Bärmann, Roman Nölle, Martin Winter and Tobias Placke
  Batteries 2018, 4(1), 4; doi: 10.3390/batteries4010004
• “A Critical Review of Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Processes from a Circular Economy Perspective”
  by Omar Velázquez-Martínez, Johanna Valio, Annukka Santasalo-Aarnio, Markus Reuter and Rodrigo Serna-Guerrero
  Batteries 2019, 5(4), 68; doi: 10.3390/batteries5040068
• “Critical Review of the Use of Reference Electrodes in Li-Ion Batteries: A Diagnostic Perspective”
  by Rinaldo Raccichini, Marco Amores and Gareth Hinds
  Batteries 2019, 5(1), 12; doi: 10.3390/batteries5010012
• “Life Cycle Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Automotive Applications”
  by Qiang Dai, Jarod C. Kelly, Linda Gaines and Michael Wang
  Batteries 2019, 5(2), 48; doi 10.3390/batteries5020048
• “Design Strategies for High Power vs. High Energy Lithium Ion Cells”
  by Michael J. Lain, James Brandon and Emma Kendrick
  Batteries 2019, 5(4), 64; doi: 10.3390/batteries5040064

Chemosensors:

• “Influence of Humidity on NO₂-Sensing and Selectivity of Spray-CVD Grown ZnO Thin Film above 400 °C”
  by Roussin Lontio Fomekong and Bilge Saruhan
  Chemosensors 2019, 7(3), 42; doi: 10.3390/chemosensors7030042
• “Low Molecular Weight Fluorescent Probes (LMFPs) to Detect the Group 12 Metal Triad”
  by Ashley D. Johnson, Rose M. Curtis and Karl J. Wallace
  Chemosensors 2019, 7(2), 22; doi: 10.3390/chemosensors7020022

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering:

• “Marine Application of Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Review”
  by Felice Rubino, Antonio Nisticò, Fausto Tucci and Pierpaolo Carlone
  Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(1), 26; doi: 10.3390/jmse8010026
• “Numerical Simulation of Large Wave Heights from Super Typhoon Nepartak (2016) in the Eastern Waters of Taiwan”
  by Shih-Chun Hsiao, Hongey Chen, Han-Lun Wu, Wei-Bo Chen, Chih-Hsin Chang, Wen-Dar Guo, Yung-Ming Chen and Lee-Yaw Lin
  Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(3), 217; doi: 10.3390/jmse8030217
• “Development of Deterministic Artificial Intelligence for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)”
  by Timothy Sands
  Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8(8), 578; doi: 10.3390/jmse8080578

Lubricants:

• “Solid Lubrication with MoS₂: A Review”
  by Mohammad R. Vazirisereshk, Ashlie Martini, David A. Strubbe and Mehmet Z. Baykara
  Lubricants 2019, 7(7), 57; doi:10.3390/lubricants7070057
• “Investigations of the Friction Losses of Different Engine Concepts. Part 1: A Combined Approach for Applying Subassembly-Resolved Friction Loss Analysis on a Modern Passenger-Car Diesel Engine”
  by Christoph Knauder, Hannes Allmaier, David E. Sander and Theodor Sams
  Lubricants 2019, 7(5), 39; doi: 10.3390/lubricants7050039
• “A Discussion on Present Theories of Rubber Friction, with Particular Reference to Different Possible Choices of Arbitrary Roughness Cutoff Parameters”
  by Andrea Genovese, Flavio Farroni, Antonio Papangelo and Michele Ciavarella
  Lubricants 2019, 7(10), 85; doi: 10.3390/lubricants7100085

Micromachines:

• “4D Printing of Multi-Hydrogels Using Direct Ink Writing in a Supporting Viscous Liquid”
  by Takuya Uchida and Hiroaki Onoe
  Micromachines 2019, 10(7), 433; doi: 10.3390/mi10070433
• “Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance and Mechanism of Au@CaTiO₃ Composites with Au Nanoparticles Assembled on CaTiO₃ Nanocuboids”
  by Yuxiang Yan, Hua Yang, Zao Yi, Ruishan Li and Xiangxian Wang
  Micromachines 2019, 10(4), 254; doi: 10.3390/mi10040254
• “Three-Dimensionally Structured Flexible Fog Harvesting Surfaces Inspired by Namib Desert Beetles”
  by Jun Kyu Park and Seok Kim
  Micromachines 2019, 10(3), 201; doi: 10.3390/mi10030201

Processes:

• “Accelerating Biologics Manufacturing by Modeling or: Is Approval under the QbD and PAT Approaches Demanded by Authorities Acceptable without a Digital-Twin?”
  by Steffen Zobel-Roos, Axel Schmidt, Fabian Mestmäcker, Mourad Mouellef, Maximilian Huter, Lukas Uhlenbrock, Martin Kornecki, Lara Lohmann, Reinhard Ditz and Jochen Strube
  Processes 2019, 7(2), 94; doi: 10.3390/pr7020094
• “Multiscale Agent-Based and Hybrid Modeling of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment”
  by Kerri-Ann Norton, Chang Gong, Samira Jamalian and Aleksander S. Popel
  Processes 2019, 7(1), 37; doi: 10.3390/pr7010037
• “Dynamic Flowsheet Model Development and Sensitivity Analysis of a Continuous Pharmaceutical Tablet Manufacturing Process Using the Wet Granulation Route”
  by Nirupaplava Metta, Michael Ghijs, Elisabeth Schäfer, Ashish Kumar, Philippe Cappuyns, Ivo Van Assche, Ravendra Singh, Rohit Ramachandran, Thomas De Beer, Marianthi Ierapetritou and Ingmar Nopens
  Processes 2019, 7(4), 234; doi: 10.3390/pr7040234

Sensors:

• “A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Blockchain for IoT”
  by Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi, Gautam Srivastava, Shalini Dhar and Rajani Singh
  Sensors 2019, 19(2), 326; doi: 10.3390/s19020326
• “The Progress of Glucose Monitoring—A Review of Invasive to Minimally and Non-Invasive Techniques, Devices and Sensors”
  by Wilbert Villena Gonzales, Ahmed Toaha Mobashsher and Amin Abbosh
  Sensors 2019, 19(4), 800; doi: 10.3390/s19040800
• “Contact-Based Methods for Measuring Respiratory Rate”
  by Carlo Massaroni, Andrea Nicolò, Daniela Lo Presti, Massimo Sacchetti, Sergio Silvestri and Emiliano Schena
  Sensors 2019, 19(4), 908; doi: 10.3390/s19040908

World Electric Vehicle Journal:

• “Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer Charging Infrastructure for Future EVs: From Experimental Track to Real Circulated Roads Demonstrations”
  by Stéphane Laporte, Gérard Coquery, Virginie Deniau, Alexandre De Bernardinis and Nicolas Hautière
  World Electr. Veh. J. 2019, 10(4), 84; doi: 10.3390/wevj10040084

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Engineering” category. The winners were selected by the journals’ editors.

We warmly congratulate the awarded Young Investigators for their outstanding contributions. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Biosensors:

• Amay J. Bandodkar, North Carolina State University, USA.

ChemEngineering:

• Andrew S. Paluch, Miami University, USA.

Chemosensors:

• Mindy Levine, Ariel University, Israel.

Electronics:

• Amir H. Gandomi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering:

• Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, University of Porto, Portugal.

Machines:

• Chen Lv, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore;
• Ignacio Gonzalez-Prieto, University of Malaga (UMA), Spain;
• Ning Sun, Nankai University, China.

Processes:

• Anton Rassõlkin, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.

Sensors:

• Qammer H. Abbasi, Queen Mary University of London, UK;
• Chi Hwan Lee, Purdue University, USA.

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the “Engineering” category for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of this year’s Travel Awards and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Actuators:

• Matthew Wei Ming Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Applied Sciences:

• Márcia de Sousa Oliveira, University of León, Spain;
• Caroline Sarah Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK;
• Raquel Viveiros, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal;
• Alfonso González Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain;
• Alen Horvat, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain;
• Marie Švecová, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic;
• Venanzio Giannella, University of Salerno, Italy;
• Michaël Lobet, University of Namur, Belgium;
• Lam Thi Ngoc Tran, National Research Council, Italy;
• Hanfei Mei, University of South Carolina, USA.

Applied System Innovation:

• Mert Nakip, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Biosensors:

• Mengdi Bao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA;

Yichi Su, Stanford University, USA.

Buildings:

• Karthik Panchabikesan, Concordia University, Canada;
• Xiaolei Yuan, Tongji University, China.

Chemosensors:

• Verónica Montes García, Université de Strasbourg & CNRS, France.

Electronics:

• Peng Hang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;
• Alfonso González Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain.

Fluids:

• Alberto Zingaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
• Sarah E. Morris, Auburn University, USA.

Infrastructures:

• Angelo Aloisio, University of L’Aquila, Italy;
• André Filipe Castanheira Alves Furtado, University of Porto, Portugal.

Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications:

• Tommaso Zanotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing:

• Nagalingam Arun Prasanth, Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab, Singapore.

Machines:

• Muhammad Jamil, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China;
• Mariagrazia Tristano, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Processes:

• Michele Schlich, University of Cagliari, Italy;
• Álvaro Santana Mayor, University of La Laguna, Spain.

Sensors:

• Eleonora Macchia, Åbo Akademi University, Finland;
• Alfonso Gonzalez Briones, University of Salamanca, Spain;
• Saúl Vallejos Calzada, University of Burgos, Spain;
• Ana Novo, University of Vigo, Spain;
• Yalin Liu, Macau University of Science and Technology, China;
• Marilena Giglio, Politecnico of Bari, Italy;
• Yuzhi Shi, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2021 in the “Engineering” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievement. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Actuators:

• Ryszard Dindorf, Kielce University of Technology, Poland.

Applied Sciences:

• Khaled Giasin, University of Portsmouth, UK;
• Jakub Krzysztof Grabski, University of Technology, Poland;
• Marcos Tostado-Véliz, University of Jaén, Spain;
• Luigi Pugliese, University of Calabria, Italy;
• Francesco Bennardo, University of Catanzaro, Italy;
• Heriberto Perez-Acebo, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.

Biosensors:

• Amir Hatamie, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Buildings:

• Francesco Fiorito, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy;
• Paul G. O’Brien, York University, Canada.

Chemosensors:

• Verónica Montes García, University of Strasbourg, France.

Machines:

• Piotr Gierlak, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland;
• Sebastian A. Nugroho, University of Michigan, USA;
• Viorel Paleu, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania.

Processes:

• Marcin Dębowski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland;
• Bartłomiej Zieniuk, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland;
• Zbigniew Nadolny, Poznan University of Technology, Poland;
• Attila Egedy, University of Pannonia, Hungary;
• Seok-Ho Rhi, Chungbuk National University, Korea.

Sensors:

• Hojong Choi, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea;
• Li Fu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China;
• Leonardo De Mello Honorio, Federal University of Juiz De Fora Juiz De Fora, Brazil;
• Mario Versaci, Mediterranea University, Italy;
• Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

Date: 14 July 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. CEST | 9:00 a.m. EDT | 9:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 890 5218 6355
Register for free here: https://electronics-5.sciforum.net/#registration

In this webinar, the focus will be on advanced techniques for the design of effective and reliable low-power and ultra-low-power integrated circuits attributed to our invited speakers. Audience members will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and engage in a Q&A with the speakers.

Chair:

 

Name: Prof. Dr. Anna Richelli
Affiliation: Editorial Board Member of the Section “Circuit and Signal Processing” in Electronics
Interests: design of ultra-low-voltage analog circuits; electromagnetic interference analysis in integrated circuits; integrated voltage converters; CMOS operational amplifiers

Speakers:

Name: Dr. Pedro Filipe Leite Correia de Toledo
Affiliation: Topical Advisory Panel Member of the Section “Circuit and Signal Processing” in Electronics
Presentation title: “Nanoscale Digital-Based Analog Processing: How to Design Analog Building Blocks Using Only Digital Gates”

Dr. Pedro Filipe Leite Correia de Toledo is an Electronic Engineer with more than ten years of experience developing CMOS RF/Analog Integrated Circuits. Currently, he is a Mixed-Signal IC designer in Synopsys, working in SERDES designs with sub-10nm CMOS technology. He has received a Ph.D. at Polito and UFRGS (Joint-Degree Ph.D.) working with digital-based analog processing for IoT applications. He has finished his M.Sc. degree in microelectronics from UFRGS, working with low thermal sensitivity analog applications based on ZTC and GZTC MOSFET bias point modeling. He has also received a BSEE (2010), and an RF IC Designer Specialization Course (IC-Brazil Program–2011) at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), respectively. He has also won the award for the best master's thesis in the design, CAD, and IC Test category in 2015 from the Brazilian Society of Microelectronics (SBMICRO). In 2019, he was awarded the Best Student Paper Award of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2019). He possesses a sound understanding of fundamental principles and trends in electronic engineering. He can work and study at the same time, and is eager to learn and adapt to new environments, products, and projects.

Name: Dr. Roberto Rubino
Affiliation: Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Presentation title: “Relaxation Digital to Analog Converter”

Dr. Roberto Rubino received his B.Sc. degree and his M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Currently, he is continuing his research as a Ph.D. student in Politecnico di Torino, as part of the research activity on "Ultra-Low Power, Mostly Digital, Integrated Interfaces for the Internet of Things".

Name: Prof. Dr. Inhee Lee
Affiliation: Editorial Board Member of the Section “Circuit and Signal Processing” in Electronics
Presentation title: “Millimeter-Scale Smart Sensing System”