Journal Guide

Bio-surface and Bio-tribology, publishes high quality papers on the surface and tribology associated with bio-systems. The scope includes all aspects of tribology-based science and technology on natural bio-surfaces, natural organs and tissues, body fluids, bio-materials and coatings, interfaces between biological tissues and medical, sport devices or articles for daily use as well as bionic tribo-designs. Original research articles, topical reviews, case reports and short communications are welcome.

Electronics Letters is the essential journal for current research and developments in the entire field of modern electronics. Renowned for its rapid publication of short, high-quality international research papers, at the cutting edge of technology, Electronics Letters is unique in the diversity of its scope. It is an invaluable source of information on the latest advances across the spectrum of electronic science and engineering, including communication, biomedical, optical and device technologies. It also provides a unique insight into some of the latest developments through special features and interviews. Containing only the most significant and original research papers, it is the speed of publication and exclusivity of information that make Electronics Letters so highly regarded by those in electronics research communities. It is essential for those who want to stay informed in this fast-moving field. Electronics Letters encompasses the entire field of electronic science and engineering. Major themes of the journal include, but are not limited to: • Biomedical electronics, imaging and measurement • Nanotechnology, microsystems • Semiconductor technology • Analogue, digital and power electronics • Wireless communication, multimedia communication and telecommunication • Optical communication, systems and devices • Photonics • Image, speech and signal processing • Microwave and millimetre wave technology • Radar and sonar systems

Healthcare technology is a rapidly advancing, interdisciplinary field and Healthcare Technology Letters is designed to meet the needs of researchers working in this context by providing a home for reporting on the diverse technologies and approaches being brought to bear on healthcare. Now a fully Open Access journal, Healthcare Technology Letters focuses on the most recent advances within a wide scope of disciplines, encompassing biomedical engineering, and computer and information science for healthcare.

High Voltage aims to attract original research papers and review articles. The scope encompasses high-voltage power engineering and high voltage applications, including experimental, computational (simulation and modelling) and theoretical studies.

High Voltage is a fully open access journal co-published with CEPRI (the China Electric Power Research Institute) and supported by Tsinghua University.

The field of biometric recognition - automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioural and biological characteristics - has reached a level of maturity where viable practical applications are both possible and increasingly available. Since the engineering of effective biometric systems requires integration of image analysis, pattern recognition, sensor technology, database engineering, security design and many other strands of understanding, the technological focus of the journal is diverse. IET Biometrics has a wide scope to account for the interdisciplinary nature of the field. While focusing on the core technological issues it also encompasses human factors, data security and database technologies, and takes into consideration the associated psychological and physiological issues. IET Biometrics includes papers that increase our understanding of biometric systems, signal future developments and applications for biometrics, and/or promote greater practical uptake for relevant technologies. Some of the topics covered include: • Development and enhancement of individual biometric modalities including established and traditional modalities (e.g. face, fingerprint, iris, signature and handwriting recognition) and also newer or emerging modalities (gait, ear-shape, and neurological patterns) • Multibiometrics, theoretical and practical issues, implementation of practical systems, multiclassifier and multimodal approaches • Soft biometrics and information fusion for identification, verification and trait prediction • Human factors and the human–computer interface issues for biometric systems, exception handling strategies • Position papers on technology or on the industrial context of biometric system development • Adoption and promotion of standards in biometrics, improving technology acceptance, deployment and interoperability, avoiding cross-cultural and cross-sector restrictions • Relevant ethical and social issues

IET Circuits, Devices & Systems covers all aspects of circuit theory, design and implementation including current research in nanoelectronics and MEMs. IET Circuits, Devices & Systems covers: • Circuit theory and design, circuit analysis and simulation, computer aided design • Filters (analogue and switched capacitor) • Circuit implementations, cells and architectures for integration including VLSI • Testability, fault tolerant design, minimisation of circuits and CAD for VLSI • Novel or improved electronic devices for both traditional and emerging technologies including nanoelectronics and MEMs, device and process characterisation, device parameter extraction schemes • Mathematics of circuits and systems theory • Test and measurement techniques involving electronic circuits, circuits for industrial applications, sensors and transducers

lET Communications covers the theory and practice of systems, networks and applications involving line, mobile radio, satellite and optical technologies for telecommunications, and internet and multimedia communications. Topics include: • Coding and communication theory • Modulation and signal design • Applications of signal processing, equalisation, coding, error detection and error correction • Video-telephony, videoconferencing and multimedia communications • Optical communications, services and applications • Fading channel, mobile systems, wireless transmission, services and applications • Indoor communications, WPAN and WLANi cross layer design

IET Computer Vision publishes original research papers in a wide range of areas of electronic visual interpretation and recognition, including reconstruction of 3D depth information, estimation of object motion, attribute-based recognition, and high-level scene understanding. It publishes the most relevant and topical research in its field, explores new horizons, and aims to set the agenda for future research in computer vision. Some of the topics covered are: • Biologically and perceptually motivated approaches to low level vision (e.g. feature detection) • Object recognition • Image understanding • Motion analysis and object tracking • Control in vision systems

IET Computers & Digital Techniques publishes technical papers on recent research and development work in all aspects of digital system-on-chip design and test of electronic and embedded systems, including the development of design automation tools (methodologies, algorithms and architectures). It also publishes papers based on the problems associated with the scaling down of CMOS technology. The key subject areas covered include: • Design: Hardware description languages, high-level and architectural synthesis, hardware/software co-design, platform-based design, system-on-chip architectures and IP cores, embedded systems, logic synthesis, low-power design and power optimisation • Verification: Electrical and timing simulation, hardware/software co-simulation, mixed-domain technology modelling and simulation, power analysis and estimation, interconnect modelling and signal integrity analysis • Test: Design-for-testability, embedded core testing, system-on-chip testing, on-line testing, test quality and reliability, microprocessor testing, low-power testing, fault modelling and fault tolerance, automatic test generation and delay testing • Processor and system architectures: General-purpose and application specific processors, computational arithmetic for DSP applications, arithmetic and logic units, cache memories, memory management, co-processors and accelerators, systems and networks on chip, embedded cores, platforms, multiprocessors, distributed systems, communication protocols and low-power issues • Configurable computing: Embedded cores, FPGAs, rapid prototyping, adaptive computing, evolvable and reconfigurable hardware • Case studies: State-of-the-art CAD/EDA tools, applications in industrial designs, and design frameworks

IET Control Theory & Applications is dedicated to control systems in the broadest sense, and publishes theoretical papers which discuss the applications of new and established control methods. Most of its papers represent original research from industrial and government laboratories and universities. However it also covers subject reviews and tutorial expositions of current methods and correspondence discussing published papers. Topics covered include system modelling, identification and simulation, the analysis and design of control systems (including computer-aided design), and practical implementation. The scope encompasses technological, economic, physiological (biomedical) and other systems, including man–machine interfaces.

IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications is a fully gold open access journal that aims to attract original research and survey articles dedicated to methodologies, techniques and tools for the design, implementation and operation of cyber-physical systems, including associated security and privacy issues and data analytics techniques.

ET Cyber-systems and Robotics is a gold Open Access journal that publishes novel research and original survey articles in the broad areas of cyber-systems and robotics, which emphasizes all kinds of artificial intelligent systems (AIS) enabled by advanced electronics and modern information technologies. The journal provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research of cybernetics and robotics to reflect the most recent evolution of Weiner’s Cybernetics in an information-rich world.

IET Electric Power Applications publishes papers of a high technical standard with a suitable balance of practice and theory. The scope covers a wide range of applications and apparatus in the power field. In addition to papers focusing on the design and development of electrical equipment, it also publishes analytical papers where the arguments are conveyed succinctly and the conclusions are clear. IET Electric Power Applications covers topics including: • The design and analysis of motors and generators of all sizes • Rotating electrical machines • Linear machines • Actuators • Power transformers • Railway traction machines and drives • Machines and drives for electrically powered vehicles

IET Electrical Systems in Transportation covers all aspects of electrical power systems in modern transport applications including generation, storage, distribution and utilisation. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation’s coverage extends to all sectors of transportation: aerospace, marine (including sub-sea), automotive or land-based and rail. The central theme focuses on the system and sub-system aspects of electrical energy including system architectures and integration, energy management, control and protection. • Energy sources: Batteries, fuel cells, generators • Energy storage: Capacitors, flywheels, SMES • Energy management: Control, protection, condition-monitoring, fault-tolerance and re-configuration • System architectures and integration issues • Energy distribution: Cabling, connectors, switchgear • Electro-mechanical energy conversion: Motors, actuation systems • Starter/generator systems • Aerospace electrical technologies: Civil, defence, UAVs • Electric/fuel cell/hybrid vehicles • Marine propulsion, drives and power systems: Ships, submarines, submersibles • Automotive systems • Railway systems: Overground, underground, light-rail, tram