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📍 Meet MDPI at EDSSC 2026!
We are excited to be exhibiting at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC 2026), taking place from 9–12 June 2026 in Guangzhou, China 🇨🇳

🔬 Stop by our booth to meet our team, learn more about MDPI journals, and discuss your latest research and publishing opportunities.

We look forward to connecting with researchers and industry professionals from around the world!

📅 9–12 June 2026
📍 Guangzhou, China

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📢 All articles in JLPEA, Volume 14, Issue 3 (September 2024), are freely available to access, read and download!
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🗒️ Cover Paper: “An Ultra-Low-Voltage Approach to Accurately Set the Quiescent Current of Digital Standard Cells Used for Analog Design and Its Application on an Inverter-Based Operational Transconductance Amplifier”
🔗 View cover paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/14/3/39
🔗 Find the whole issue: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/14/3
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📚 This issue includes 13 articles covering recent advances in low-power electronics and applications.

🌸 We highlight representative papers for each issue cover, and authors are welcome to recommend articles currently published in JLPEA for future issue covers.

📩 If you are interested in contributing or collaborating, please contact: [email protected]

⭐ Highly Cited Paper ⭐
We are pleased to feature: “mTanh: A Low-Cost Inkjet-Printed Vanishing Gradient Tolerant Activation Function” by Shahrin Akter and Mohammad Rafiqul Haider.

🧠 This highly cited paper introduces mTanh, a low-cost inkjet-printed activation function designed to mitigate the vanishing gradient problem in deep neural networks. The study demonstrates its effectiveness in enabling deeper architectures while maintaining performance comparable to established activation functions, highlighting its potential for flexible electronics and neuromorphic computing applications.

📄 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/15/2/27

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mTanh: A Low-Cost Inkjet-Printed Vanishing Gradient Tolerant Activation Function Inkjet-printed circuits on flexible substrates are rapidly emerging as a key technology in flexible electronics, driven by their minimal fabrication process, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. Recent advancements in inkjet-printed devices and circuits have broadened their applicat...

📢 All articles in JLPEA, Volume 15, Issue 3 (September 2025), are freely available to access, read and download!
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🗒️ Cover Paper: “Alleviating the Communication Bottleneck in Neuromorphic Computing with Custom-Designed Spiking Neural Networks”
🔗 View cover paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/15/3/50
🔗 Find the whole issue: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/15/3
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📚 This issue includes 18 articles covering recent advances in low-power electronics and applications.

🌸 We highlight representative papers for each issue cover, and authors are welcome to recommend articles currently published in JLPEA for future issue covers.

📩 If you are interested in contributing or collaborating, please contact: [email protected]

⭐ Highly Cited Paper ⭐
We are pleased to feature: “Design of Ultra-Low-Power Rail-to-Rail Input Common Mode Range Standard-Cell-Based Comparators” by Antonio Manno, Giuseppe Scotti and Palumbo.

🔬 This highly cited paper presents a novel standard-cell-based dynamic comparator with rail-to-rail input common-mode range, achieving significantly higher speed and lower power-delay product than existing solutions, making it highly attractive for ultra-low-power integrated circuit design.

📄 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/15/1/14
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Design of Ultra-Low-Power Rail-to-Rail Input Common Mode Range Standard-Cell-Based Comparators In this paper, a NOR2 standard-cell-based dynamic comparator providing rail-to-rail input common mode range (ICMR) is presented, together with a novel standard-cell oriented design methodology. The proposed topology provides better speed performance and lower power-delay-product than the previously....

📢 All articles in JLPEA, Volume 14, Issue 4 (December 2024), are freely available to access, read and download!
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🗒️ Cover Paper: “Phase Change Memory Drift Compensation in Spiking Neural Networks Using a Non-Linear Current Scaling Strategy”
🔗 View cover paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/14/4/50
🔗 Find the whole issue: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/14/4
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This issue includes 13 articles covering recent advances in low-power electronics and applications.

🌸 We highlight representative papers for each issue cover, and authors are welcome to recommend articles currently published in JLPEA for future issue covers.
📩 If you are interested in contributing or collaborating, please contact: [email protected]

⭐Editor’s Choice Article
We are pleased to feature: “Full-Bridge DC-DC Converter with Synchronous Rectification Based on GaN Transistors” by Xin Wang et al.

🔋This study demonstrates the advantages of GaN transistors in high-efficiency DC-DC converters, achieving 97.1% peak efficiency and high power density, with strong potential for aerospace, automotive, and communication power applications.

📄 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/15/2/25

Meet Us at the 35th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies (ICAST 2026), 1–3 June 2026, Hongkong, China 🌏

Representatives from MDPI and JLPEA will be on-site throughout the event, engaging with researchers and sharing insights into the latest developments in academic publishing and open access.

📍 We warmly invite you to visit the MDPI booth to meet our team in person, discuss your research, and explore publishing opportunities with us.
Let’s connect, exchange ideas, and shape the future of research together 🤝

🔗 Conference website: https://icast2026.hkust.edu.hk/index.html

📢 Highly Cited Paper in JLPEA!

We are pleased to highlight the highly cited paper: “Optimizing BFloat16 Deployment of Tiny Transformers on Ultra-Low Power Extreme Edge SoCs”
by Alberto Dequino et al.
🔗 Read the paper:
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/15/1/8

This work demonstrates how Transformer models can be efficiently deployed on ultra-low-power RISC-V microcontrollers without accuracy loss. The authors combine extensive model pruning with optimized BFloat16 ex*****on, achieving major reductions in memory footprint and significant performance improvements for TinyML and edge AI applications.

📘 New Special Issue Reprint Published in JLPEA!

JLPEA is pleased to announce the publication of the Special Issue Reprint:
“Ultra-Low-Power ICs for the Internet of Things (2nd Edition)”
Guest Editor: Dr. Orazio Aiello

This reprint collects contributions from the Special Issue “Ultra-Low-Power ICs for the Internet of Things (2nd Edition)”, covering the latest advances in ultra-low-power integrated circuits, energy-efficient IC design methodologies, IoT applications, energy harvesting solutions, and low-voltage systems for next-generation electronic devices.

📥 The reprint is available for free download and can also be ordered as a hardback copy here:
https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/12280-ultra-low-power-ics-for-the-internet-of-things-2nd-edition

We thank all authors, reviewers, and the Guest Editor for their valuable contributions to this successful Special Issue.