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 An international journal devoted to research and development of physical transducers
Editor-in-Chief:
P.J. French
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Description
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical brings together multidisciplinary interests in one journal entirely
devoted to disseminating information on all aspects of research and development of solid-state devices for transducing physical signals. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical regularly publishes original papers, letters to the Editors and from time to time invited
review articles within the following device areas:
• Fundamentals and Physics such as: classification of effects, physical
effects, measurement theory, modelling of sensors, measurement standards, measurement errors, units and constants, time and frequency
measurement. Modelling papers should either bring new modelling techniques to the field and/or be supported by experimental results.
• Materials and their Processing such as: piezoelectric materials, polymers, metal oxides, III-V and II-VI semiconductors,
thick and thin films, optical glass fibres, amorphous, polycrystalline and monocrystalline silicon.
• Optoelectronic sensors
such as: photovoltaic diodes, photoconductors, photodiodes, phototransistors, positron-sensitive photodetectors, optoisolators, photodiode
arrays, charge-coupled devices, light-emitting diodes, injection lasers and liquid-crystal displays.
• Mechanical sensors
such as: metallic, thin-film and semiconductor strain gauges, diffused silicon pressure sensors, silicon accelerometers, solid-state
displacement transducers, piezo junction devices, piezoelectric field-effect transducers (PiFETs), tunnel-diode strain sensors, surface
acoustic wave devices, silicon micromechanical switches, solid-state flow meters and electronic flow controllers.
• Thermal
sensors such as: platinum resistors, thermistors, diode temperature sensors, silicon transistor thermometers, integrated temperature
transducers, PTAT circuits, thermocouples, thermopiles, pyroelectric thermometers, quartz thermometers, power transistors and thick-film
thermal print heads.
• Magnetic sensors such as: magnetoresistors, Corbino disks, magnetodiodes, Hall-effect devices, integrated
Hall devices, silicon depletion-layer magnetometers, magneto-injection transistors, magnistors, lateral magnetotransistors, carrier-domain
magnetometers, MOS magnetic-field sensors, solid-state read and write heads.
• Micromechanics such as: research papers
on actuators, structures, integrated sensors-actuators, microsystems, and other devices or subdevices ranging in size from millimetres
to sub-microns; micromechatronics; microelectromechanical systems; microoptomechanical systems; microchemomechanical systems; microrobots;
silicon and non-silicon fabrication techniques; basic studies of physical phenomena of interest to micromechanics; analysis of microsystems;
exploration of new topics and materials related to micromechanics; microsystem-related problems like power supplies and signal transmission,
microsystem-related simulation tools; other topics of interest to micromechanics.
• Interface electronics: electronic circuits
which are designed to interface directly with the above transducers and which are used for improving or complementing the characteristics
of these devices, such as linearization, A/D conversion, temperature compensation, light-intensity compensation, current/frequency conversion
and microcomputer interfacing.
• Sensor Systems and Applications such as: sensor buses, multiple-sensor systems, sensor
networks, voting systems, telemetering, sensor arrays, and automotive, environmental, monitoring and control, consumer, medical, alarm
and security, robotic, nautical, aeronautical and space measurement systems.
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ISSN: 0924-4247
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Commenced publication 1981
Subscriptions for the year 2009,
Volumes 149-156,
16 issues |
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Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical with B: Chemical (Combined Subscription)
Audience
Academic and Industrial Researchers in Applied Physics and Instrument Development
Impact factor of this journal
2007: 1.348
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Last update: 14 Oct 2008
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