Special Session on “Beyond Nano: Smart Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Metamaterials for Plasmonics and Advanced Energy Systems” – New Deadline: October 15, 2021

UPDATED The IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Section on: “Beyond Nano: Smart Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Metamaterials for Plasmonics and Advanced Energy Systems”

The metamaterial paradigm, was articulated in 1959 by R. Feynman, stating “Up to now, we have been content to dig in the ground to find minerals. What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them? When we have some control of the arrangement of things on a small scale we will get an enormously greater range of possible properties that substances can have, and of different things that we can do”. Metamaterials (“meta” from the Greek μετά, “beyond”) are a novel class of “artificial” materials with a complex architecture comprising features spanning over multiple length scales, from “nano” and even below up to “macro”, and featuring a wide range of “exotic” properties, as e.g. the negative refraction, that cannot be found in other structures and materials platforms. Complex metamaterials and nano-assemblies have already been shown to have the potential to substantially extend the properties of existing materials and advance existing robust engineering materials to respond to the demands of emerging technologies.

At the same time, the utilization of nanomaterials in technologies for renewable energy and sustainability applications is an important area of academic and commercial research.

There are numerous mechanisms by which the integration of nanomaterials can improve device performance. These include, for example, facilitation of increased harvesting and conversion efficiencies, simplified and rapid manufacturing processes for novel device architectures, and improved energy storage properties.

This Special section of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology solicits contributed articles that will report the most recent developments in the field of metamaterials, smart nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for highly efficient, novel devices relevant to applications in plasmonics, renewable energy and sustainability, high efficiency energy systems, energy accumulation, energy harvesting or very special energy conversion applications. This section will also serve as the basis to chart out future research directions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Metamaterials/Smart Nanomaterials development, synthesis, and fabrication for renewable energy applications;
Synthesis and Characterization of Plasmonic Nanomaterials
Novel micro/nanofabrication technologies for efficient energy devices;
Design and preparation of novel nanotextured/nanostructured surfaces for improved energy harvesting and conversion efficiencies;
Low-dimensional nanomaterials or nanocomposites for renewable energies;
Green techniques for energy-related nanomaterials processing;
Nanomaterial-based technologies for sustainability and environmental issues;
Other studies of nanoscience and nanotechnology associated with renewable energy and sustainability.

Follow the guideline (http://site.ieee.org/tnano/author-info/), and submit your paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnano, indicating in the cover letter that you wish the paper to be considered for “IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) Special Section on “Smart Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies and Metamaterials for Plasmonics and Advanced Energy Systems”. Please note that the type of submissions is Regular Manuscripts, i.e., 4 to 6 pages in the two-column IEEE format, which includes figures, tables, and references. On submission to TNANO, authors should select the “Special Issue” manuscript type instead of “Regular Paper”.

Manuscripts will be subject to the standard competitive and constructive peer-review TNANO criteria with no article publishing charges. Accepted papers are published on the web in IEEE Xplore as soon as they are submitted in final form. Web-published papers have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), and are fully citable and downloadable.

Important Dates

Extended Submission deadline: October 15, 2021
First decision (accept/reject/revise): January 15, 2022
Revised papers submission: March 15, 2022
Final decision: May 15, 2022

Guest Editors (Alphabetical Order)

Michele Giocondo, Institute of Nanotechnology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, Email: michele.giocondo@cnr.it
Eden Mamut, Institute for Nanotechnologies and Alternative Energy Sources, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania, Email: emamut@univ-ovidius.ro (Leading Guest Editor)
Guang Tao Fei, Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, P. R. China, Email: gtfei@issp.ac.cn

Responsible T-NANO Senior Editor: Prof. Sorin Cotofana

New Impact Factor (IF) for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) announced.

We are delighted to announce that IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) has achieved an impressive result in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports with an Impact Factor of 2.570. More specifically, the 2020 Impact Factor of IEEE TNANO has increased to 2.57 from 2.196 in 2019, which is a one-year increase of 17%. This places the Journal firmly in the top quartile of international journals in the nanotechnology field.

This great outcome is testimony to the hard work and skills of the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Sorin Cotofana, the team of Senior Editors and Associate Editors supporting the journal, coupled with the outstanding quality of research produced by our authors, the meticulous scrutiny of our peer reviewers, and the hard work of the rest of editing team.

We would like to offer our thanks and congratulations to all and we are looking forward for even more exciting achievements for our journal.

NEW page limits starting with July 1st 2021!

The following page limits and mandatory charge have been approved by the NTC ExCom and will become operational for manuscripts submitted starting with July 1st 2021:

TNANO publishes Regular Papers and Research Letters. Regular Papers are 4 to 6 printed pages in length and Research Letters are 3 printed pages in length.
A mandatory over-length page charge is applicable on all Regular Papers and Research Letters exceeding 6 and 3 Transactions pages, respectively.
Regular Papers and Research Letters can exceed the 6 and 3 Transactions pages with up to 6 and 1 extra pages, respectively. This charge is $175 per page for each page over the first 6 and 3, respectively, based on the final typeset length and not on the manuscript length, and it is a prerequisite for publication.

For potential author’s convenience these changes have been reflected into “Info for Authors” and “Procedure Manual”.

T-NANO Best Paper of the Year 2020 Award

At the beginning of each year, T-NANO selects a paper that appeared in the Transactions during the previous calendar year for its Best Paper Award. Candidate papers are nominated by members of the Editorial Board. Evaluation is done by members of the Senior Editors Panel, with criteria including technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of presentation, and practical significance for applications.

The winner of the 2020 TNANO Best Paper Award is:

“A Magnetic Field-to-Digital Converter Employing a Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillator”
Published in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, pp. 565 – 570, 13 July 2020.

Co-authored by Dagur Ingi Albertsson, Johan Åkerman, Ana Rusu

Dagur Ingi Albertsson, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of EECS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden.
Johan Åkerman, Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ana Rusu, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of EECS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden.

To read the paper go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9139390/

DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2020.3007344

Special Section on “Neuromorphic Computing”

The IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Section on: “Neuromorphic Computing”

The explosive growth in data-centric computing-related applications necessitates a radical departure from traditional von Neumann computing systems. These systems involve separate processing and memory units that lead to significant latency, bandwidth, and energy consumption in the information transfer between the processing and memory units. Neuromorphic computing has emerged as one of the solutions that potentially overcomes the von Neumann bottleneck. It aims to facilitate the highest computing speeds while reducing the need for bulky devices and power-consuming dedicated computing systems. Neuromorphic computing is expected to solve most of the artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) current issues while opening new perspectives in the decades to come. It is getting tremendous attention from companies like Intel, IBM, Applied Brain Research, Brain Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Samsung Electronics, and Qualcomm, putting their might behind it. According to a US-based Research and Markets report, the neuromorphic computing market is poised to increase over the next decade to reach approximately $1.78 billion by 2025. Despite the remarkable strides made in this field recently, several hurdles need to be overcome at the device level and scale up neuromorphic systems to sizes that enable useful applications.

This Special section of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology solicits contributed articles that will report the most recent developments in the field of neuromorphic computing with a view to overcoming the von Neumann bottleneck and the exorbitant energy consumption associated with information processing. This section will also serve as the basis to chart out future research directions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Device, circuit, architecture design, analysis and optimization for neuromorphic computing systems
Mathematical modeling of neural systems
Emerging materials for devices of neuromorphic computing importance
Device to system level framework and optimization
Hardware accelerators for machine/deep learning algorithms
Multi-scale neural systems
On-chip learning and inference
Learning algorithms and optimizations
Mapping algorithms
Complexity and scalability of neuromorphic computing
Reliability and security in neuromorphic computing
Emerging technologies for brain-inspired nano-computing and communication
Applications of neuromorphic computing in embedded and IoT devices, unmanned vehicles and drones, and cyber-physical systems

Follow the guideline (http://site.ieee.org/tnano/author-info/), and submit your paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnano, indicating in the cover letter that you wish the paper to be considered for “IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) Special Section on “Neuromorphic Computing”. Please note that the type of submissions is Regular Manuscripts, i.e., 4 to 8 pages in the two-column IEEE format, which includes figures, tables, and references. On submission to TNANO, authors should select the “Special Issue” manuscript type instead of “Regular Paper”.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: September 30, 2021
First decision (accept/reject/revise): December 31, 2021
Revised papers submission: February 27, 2022
Final decision: April 30, 2022

Guest Editors (Alphabetical Order)

Amit Ranjan Trivedi, University of Illinois Chicago, USA, Email: amitrt@uic.edu
Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, Email: bkk23fec@iitr.ac.in (Leading Guest Editor)
Giovanni Finocchio, University of Messina, Italy, Email: gfinocchio@unime.it
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, Email: sbandy@vcu.edu
Yufei Ding, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA, Email: yufeiding@cs.ucsb.edu

Responsible T-NANO Senior Editor: Prof. Sorin Cotofana

Special Section on “20th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO 2020)” – New Deadline: March 31, 2021

UPDATED The IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Section on: “20^th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO 2020)”

The nanotechnology revolution is founded upon the understanding of phenomena occurring at the nanoscale and the ability to fabricate and manipulate nanomaterials and nanodevices for practical applications. Researchers are contributing new ideas from a wide range of disciplines, including materials science, biology, biomedicine, engineering, physics, and chemistry. To make interesting research presented at the 20^th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO 2020) widely available, in expanded form and in one publication, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) is extending a Call for Papers for a Special Issue reflecting the scope of the conference. Submitted manuscripts will undergo a full peer review process. Submissions are welcome, and all interested NANO 2020 participants are encouraged to submit. Authors who were attendees are requested to significantly expand the previous conference version to contain substantial new technical material, as per TNANO and IEEE restrictions on duplicated publications and the competitive acceptance process.

Submissions that reflect the IEEE NANO Conference Scope and current state of the field are welcome in areas including but not limited to:

Energy Conversion: Thermoelectrics and Solar Technologies
Energy Storage
Nanosensors and Nanoactuators
Nanoplasmonics
Nanoscale Science: Characterization and Modeling
Nanophotonics
Nanomaterials
Nanofabrication and Quantum Engineering
Nanomedicine
Nanotools
Nanoelectronics
Nanobio
Nanopackaging
Stretchable and Wearable Electronics
2D Materials
Nanotechnology for Humanitarian and Peace Engineering
Sustainable Electronics: Disassembling, Recycling and Eco-Design
Nano-acoustics
Nano-Ferroics

Manuscripts for the TNANO Special Section must be submitted on-line using the IEEE TNANO manuscript template. Follow the guideline (https://tnano.org/author-info/), and submit your paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnano, indicating in the cover letter that you wish the paper to be considered for “IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) 20^th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO 2020)”. Please note that the type of submissions is Regular Manuscripts, i.e., 4 to 8 pages in the two-column IEEE format, which includes figures, tables, and references. On submission to TNANO, authors should select the “Special Issue” manuscript type instead of “Regular Paper.” Manuscripts will be subject to the standard competitive and constructive peer-review TNANO criteria with no article publishing charges. Accepted papers are published on the web in IEEE Xplore as soon as they are submitted in final form. Web-published papers have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), and are fully citable and downloadable.

Important Dates

Extended Submission deadline: March 31, 2021
First decision (accept/reject/revise): March 15, 2021
Revised papers submission: April 30, 2021
Final decision: June 15, 2021

Guest Editors

Prof. Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske (Leading guest editor) Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. E-mail: jeske@ece.pdx.edu

Prof. Antonio Di Bartolomeo University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. E-mail: adibartolomeo@unisa.it

Responsible T-NANO Senior Editor: Prof. Sorin Cotofana

T-NANO Best Paper of the Year 2019 Award

The Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) has assessed the papers published in 2019 in a three-stage process of nomination, evaluation, and voting according to the TNANO procedure manual. The evaluation criteria include technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of presentation, and practical significance for applications.

We are pleased to announce that the 2019 TNANO Best Paper Award goes to:

“Carbon Nanotube CMOS Analog Circuitry”
By Rebecca Ho; Christian Lau; Gage Hills; Max M. Shulaker
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Volume: 18
Page(s): 845 – 848
Date of Publication: 08 March 2019
ISSN Information:
INSPEC Accession Number: 18912330
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2019.2902739

Congratulations to all the co-authors!

The award includes a certificate for each of the co-authors, and a $1000 prize to be divided among the co-authors; funding for this award is provided by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC). The award was announced in the Award Ceremony of the IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2020), held virtually 29-31 July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Special Section on “14th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (IEEE 2019 NMDC)” – New Deadline: August 15, 2020

UPDATED The IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Section on: “14^th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (IEEE 2019 NMDC)”

The nanotechnology revolution is founded upon the fascinating progress in nanoscale materials and devices. Researchers are contributing new ideas from a wide range of disciplines, including materials science, biology, biomedicine, engineering, physics, and chemistry. To make interesting research presented at the 14^th IEEE 2019 Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference widely available, in expanded form and in one publication, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) is extending a Call for Papers for a Special Section reflecting the scope of the conference. Submitted manuscripts will undergo a full peer review process. Submissions are welcome, and all interested 2019 NMDC participants are encouraged to submit. Authors who were attendees are requested to significantly expand the previous conference version to contain substantial new technical material, as per TNANO and IEEE restrictions on duplicated publications and the competitive acceptance process.

Submissions that reflect the Conference Scope and current state of the field are welcome in areas including but not limited to:

Nanoelectronics and CMOS
Nanophotonics, Metamaterials and Plasmonics
Low-D Structures: Nanowires, Quantum Dots, …
2D Materials and Devices
Quantum Technology
Nano-Magnetic Structures and Devices
Organic Nanomaterials and Devices
NEMS/MEMS and Sensors
Biosensing and Biomedical Applications
Interconnects, Packaging and Reliability
Synthesis and Fabrication of Nanostructures
Theory/Modelling of Nanomaterials and Devices
Emerging Topics

Manuscripts for the TNANO Special Section must be submitted on-line using the IEEE TNANO manuscript template. Follow the guideline (http://site.ieee.org/tnano/author-info/), and submit your paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnano, indicating in the cover letter that you wish the paper to be considered for “IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) Special Section on 14^th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference”. Please note that the type of submissions is Regular Manuscripts, i.e., 4 to 8 pages in the two-column IEEE format, which includes figures, tables, and references. On submission to TNANO, authors should select the “Special Issue” manuscript type instead of “Regular Paper.” Manuscripts will be subject to the standard competitive and constructive peer-review TNANO criteria with no article publishing charges. Accepted papers are published on the web in IEEE Xplore as soon as they are submitted in final form. Web-published papers have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), and are fully citable and downloadable.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: August 15, 2020
First decision (accept/reject/revise): October 1, 2020
Revised papers submission: November 15, 2020
Final decision: December 31, 2020

Guest Editors

Dr. Apurba Dev (Leading guest editor) Department of Electrical Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: apurba.dev@angstrom.uu.se

Assoc. Prof. Ilya Sychugov Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: ilyas@kth.se

Prof. Jan Linnros Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: linnros@kth.se

Responsible T-NANO Senior Editor: Prof. Osamu Tabata

Special Section on “Micro/Nanorobotics and its biomedical applications”

The IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Section on: “Micro/Nanorobotics and its biomedical applications”

Micro/nanorobotics is an emerging field of developing robotic devices to perform tasks (e.g., actuation, sensing, manipulation, propulsion, signaling, information processing, intelligence, and swarm behaviors) at the micro/nano scale. Micro/nanorobotic systems can themselves be miniature in size (often called micro/nanorobot), or they may be designed to interact with micro/nano-sized matters (often called micro/nanomanipulator). In the past decade, the huge achievements of micro/nanorobotics are realizing the dream described in the film Fantastic Voyage and show the extraordinary potentials for advancing biomedicine (e.g., drug delivery, precision surgery, medical diagnostics, and targeted therapy), significantly offering novel possibilities for bridging biomedicine and robotics.

This special issue covers the important and influential topics of micro/nanorobotics (including micro/nanorobots and micro/nanomanipulators) and its biomedical applications. Additionally, the potential and valuable directions of further research will be addressed. The guest editors look forward to collecting a set of recent advances in the related topics, to provide a platform for bridging researchers associated with micro/nanorobotics from multidisciplinary fields including engineering, information, biomedicine, materials, chemistry, and physics.

Relevant topics of interest to this special section include (but are not limited to):

Micro/Nanorobots and micro/nanomanipulators
Micro/Nanorobotics, nanotechnology, MEMS and automation
Novel concepts, materials, fabrications, and designs for micro/nanorobotics
Novel sensing, actuation and control techniques/theories for micro/nanorobotics
In vivo and in vitro biomedical applications of micro/nanorobots
Applications of micro/nanomanipulators for biological characterizations, manipulations, and measurements

Follow the guideline (http://site.ieee.org/tnano/author-info/), and submit your paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnano, indicating in the cover letter that you wish the paper to be considered for “IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) Special Section on “Micro/Nanorobotics and its biomedical applications”. Please note that the type of submissions is Regular Manuscripts, i.e., 4 to 8 pages in the two-column IEEE format, which includes figures, tables, and references. On submission to TNANO, authors should select the “Special Issue” manuscript type instead of “Regular Paper”.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 15, 2020
First decision (accept/reject/revise): October 1, 2020
Revised papers submission: December 1, 2020
Final decision: December 31, 2020

Guest Editors

Prof. Lianqing Liu (Leading guest editor) Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China. E-mail: lqliu@sia.cn

Prof. Lixin Dong Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. E-mail: lixidong@cityu.edu.hk

Prof. Guangyong Li Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. E-mail: gul6@pitt.edu

Responsible T-NANO Senior Editor: Prof. Osamu Tabata

Special Section on “Nanoscale Architectures Symposium (NANOARCH 2020)”

UPDATED The IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) seeks original manuscripts for a “Nanoscale Architectures Symposium (NANOARCH 2020)” Special Section

As COVID-19 pandemic precluded the organization of the 16^th International Symposium on Nanoscale Architecture (NANOARCH 2020) we decided to propose a dedicated TNANO special section instead, which goal is to continue NANOARCH assumed mission to promote cross-disciplinary research work and seek inspiration to address the integrated nanoscale electronic systems challenges. The session scope incorporates several exciting areas on emerging computing paradigms (e.g., approximate, stochastic, quantum, neuromorphic, molecular, spintronic), novel nanoscale computing architectures, 2D material-based (e.g., graphene) nanoelectronics and computing architectures, beyond charge-based computing, emerging memory devices and in memory computing, and nanoelectronics for biomedical systems.

We invite potential authors to submit Regular Papers as per the T-NANO requirements in the area of nanocomputing, nanofabrication, and emerging nanosystem applications. Relevant topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Nanoelectronic circuits, nanofabrics, and nanocomputing architectures.
Future and emerging computing paradigms, e.g., approximate, stochastic, quantum, neuromorphic, molecular, spintronic.
Emerging memory nano-devices and in memory computing architectures.
Low-dimensional material based nanoelectronic technology, circuits and systems.
Defect/fault tolerant architecture, integration, and manufacturing.
Security architectures with nanofabrics.
Architecture, integration, and manufacturing of 3D IC and hybrid IC.
Nanodevice and nanocircuit models, methodologies and computer aided design tools.
Fundamental limits of computing at the nanoscale.
Novel nanodevices and manufacturing/integration ideas with innovations/focus on nanoarchitectures.

Follow the guidelines (http://site.ieee.org/tnano/author-info/), and submit your paper to ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnano, indicating in the cover letter that you wish the paper to be considered for “IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) Special Section on “Nanoscale Architectures Symposium (NANOARCH 2020)”. Please note that the type of submissions is Regular Manuscripts, i.e., 4 to 8 pages in the two-column IEEE format, which includes figures, tables, and references. On submission to TNANO, authors should select the “Special Issue” manuscript type instead of “Regular Paper.”

Important Dates

- Submission deadline: July 15, 2020
- First decision (accept/reject/revise): September 15, 2020
- Revised papers submission: October 15, 2020
- Final decision: December 15, 2020

Guest Editors

Prof. Vincent Gaudet Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Email: vcgaudet@uwaterloo.ca

Prof. Warren Gross Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Email: warren.gross@mcgill.ca

Prof. Lan Wei Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Email: l28wei@uwaterloo.ca

Prof. Jie Han Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Email: jhan8@ualberta.ca

Responsible TNANO Senior Editor: Prof. Antonio Rubio