Dear Colleagues,

Micro- and nanoscale sensors and electromechanical sensing systems (especially MEMS/NEMS) have potential applications in many dynamic fields, such as biological and chemical diagnostics, neuroscience, drug delivery, quantum communications, automobiles, storage devices, space technologies, acoustic transducers. In recent years, given the ever-increasing demand for advanced sensor technologies that enable Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications in homeland security, environmental monitoring, industrial process control, personal healthcare, etc., high-precision and sensitive sensors that could form smart sensor networks have been developed. The number of these devices is in the tens of billions, and the potential for breakthrough innovations is immense. The micro- and nanometer-scale and integrated novel designs of sensors and sensing systems will find new scientific and technical solutions to human and societal challenges in future engineering and technology. Innovative miniaturized platforms and associated fabrication techniques will evolve to interface and understand these engineered micro/nanosystems with various heterogeneous environments while achieving very high sensitivity, low noise, and/or high specificity. A combination of approaches from electrical engineering, chemistry, optics, and mechanical engineering with solid foundations from biology, materials science, applied physics, photonics, and analytical chemistry will advance the field of micro and nano engineering and technology. Therefore, the future development of nano–micro sensors and devices is particularly important. This Special Issue aims to discuss current issues related to emerging nano–micro sensors and devices and their prospective applications in various fields.

• Novel micro- and nano-biosensing methods and technologies;
• Electronic circuits/PCBs for MEMS and nanosensors;
• Magnetic micro and nano sensors and actuators, including Hall-effect devices, magnetometers, magnetoimpedance sensors, magnetoresistance sensors, and magnetoelastic sensors;
• Flexible and wearable sensors;
• MEMS/nanogenerators for autonomous sensors and sensor nodes/networks.
• Acoustic/electromagnetic/electrostatic interactions in sensor and actuator design;
• Autonomous and embedded sensors: design, fabrication, assembly, and reliability;
• Biosensors (electrical/optical and chemical) and their integration in MEMS, and microfluidic systems;
• Sensor interconnects/interfaces and their testing;
• Micro terahertz sensors;

Dr. Proloy Taran Das
Dr. Moty Schultz
Guest Editors

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• micro and Nano magnetic sensors
• micro/nano gas sensor
• humidity sensors
• flexible and wearable electronics
• micro-/nano-electrochemical sensors
• acoustic/electromagnetic/electrostatic interactions for self-powered sensors
• biosensors
• sensor integration to MEMS/microfluidic systems
• electronic circuits/PCBs for N/MEMS
• N/MEMS transducers based on graphene/graphene-like materials
• N/MEMS sensors (electrostatic, electromagnetic, electrothermal, piezoelectric, etc.)
• N/MEMS applications (optical communications, optical imaging, spectrometers, displays, space, etc.)
• MEMS and nanogenerators for self-sustaining sensor nodes/networks
• terahertz sensors