Fundamentals and applications of nano-electromagnetic communications

Nanotechnology is providing the engineering community with a new set of tools to create miniature machines, which has a few cubic micrometers in size, and functions including sensing, actuation, computation, and data storing [1]. A large number of such nanomachines can accomplish more complex tasks collaboratively, with the capability of wireless communications. In light of this direction, nanonetworks, i.e., networks of nanomachines, can enable transformative and promising applications in the biomedical, environmental, security, defense, and consumer fields, as revealed by Akyildiz et al. [2].