Over the past few years, we have witnessed the significant impact of electronics and photonics on various aspects of our daily lives, such as monitoring and treatment in healthcare, environmental monitoring, development of robotics and human-machine interaction, etc. According to developments in recent years, next-generation electronics and photonics are rapidly approaching the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to achieve higher levels of communication and confidence in the correctness of self-made decisions in the structure of cyber-physical implementations.
This issue of the journal presents the results of modern developments of the authors in the field of electronics, photonics and cyber-physical systems from the point of view of new materials, mechanisms of measurement transformations, structural configurations, applications and their further integration with intelligent technologies. The electronics section examines the development of 3D microwave electronics on sections of coaxial cables in sensor applications, which is further summarized with a discussion of the prospects for the development of 3D nanoelectronics on nanotubes. The photonics section discusses radio-photonic solutions for radar and atmospheric sensing paths, as well as fiber-optic sensor systems based on system integration with solar energy and water collection and storage technologies. The Cyber-Physical Systems section examines the merging of electronics and photonics technologies and artificial intelligence, showing the emergence and rapid development of smart, feature-rich, self-reliant systems in the AI/IoT era.