Sensors And Actuators A-Physical

ccording to the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product, the Sensors And Actuators A-Physical has published 3,573 papers cited a total of 14,198 times to date in the field of Engineering. The journal's most-cited paper in this field, "High-aspect-ratio, ultrathick, negative-tone near-UV photoresist and its applications for MEMS," (SENSOR ACTUATOR A-PHYS, 64: (1) 33-39 JAN 1 1998 ), has  been cited 92 times to date. This article also appears in the top 20 papers for the special topic of MEMS. Recently, ESI Special Topics visited the Website of the Sensors And Actuators A-Physical from Elsevier and captured the unedited text and description of this highly-cited journal.

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. The audience for this journal is Academic and Industrial Researchers in Applied Physics and Instrument Development. 

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.

• 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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Rankings for the journal Sensors and Actuators A: Physical In the field of Engineering among the highly-cited 456 journals on three separate measures: Rank: #17 Rank: #32 Rank: #131 Total Papers: 3,573 Number of Citations: 14,198 Cites Per Paper: 131 SOURCE: ISI Essential Science Indicators Web based product from the January 1, 2004 update covering an eleven year period, January 1994 - December 31, 2004.