About the event

The 6th IFSA Frequency and Time Conference (IFTC’ 2024) is organized by International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) – one of the major professional, non-profit association serving for sensor industry and academy since 1999 (https://sensorsportal.com)

​IFSA was founded on 23 August 1999 with the aim to encourage the research and development in the area of sensors with frequency, time interval, duty-cycle and digital output, including multifunction, multifrequency transducers, the usage of new physical effects and principles. IFSA reports on current research in this field worldwide through its media: Sensors Web Portal, IFSA Newsletter, Sensors & Transducers journal, e-Digest (magazine) and related conferences. Today IFSA has more that 750 members from 54 countries from academia and industry worldwide.

The Series of annual international conference covers both: methods of measurements of frequency-time parameters of signals, and devices including appropriate sensors, transducers and converters to frequency, and frequency to digital and other related areas connected with frequency and time, namely: generation, transfer, various oscillators and resonators, standards and references, etc.

The 1st IFSA Frequency and Time Conference (IFTC’ 2019) has taken place in Barcelona, Spain (2019), the 2nd IFSA Frequency and Time Conference (IFTC’ 2020) - in Porto (Portugal). The 3rd IFTC' 2021 - in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands), Spain and the 4th IFTC' 2022 - in Corfu (Greece), the 5th IFTC' 2023 - in Funchal (Portugal), and the 6th IFTC' 2024 will take place in Ibiza (Balearic Islands), Spain in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Sensors and Electronic Instrumentation Advances (SEIA' 2024) and 6th International Conference on Microelectronic Devices and Technologies (MicDAT '2024) under the same conference umbrella.

The topics of interest include (but not limited):

* Methods for Frequency, Time and Phase Measurements
* Measurements of Frequency-Time Parameters of Signals
* Frequency-to-Digital Converters (FDC)
* Time-to-Digital Converters (TDC)
* Voltage-to-Frequency Converters (VFC)
* Current-to-Frequency Converters
* ADC based on Voltage-to-Frequency Converters
* Capacitance-to-Frequency Converters
* Resistance-to-Frequency Converters
* Resistive Bridge-to-Frequency Converters
* Inductance-to-Frequency Converters
* Impedance-to-Frequency Converters
* Counters, Phasemeters and Tachometers
* Frequency Generators and Synthesizers
* Frequency, Period, Duty-cycle, Time interval output sensors and transducers
* Pulse width modulation (PWM) and Pulse number output sensors and transducers
* Time of Flight Sensors (ToF)
* Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors
* Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) sensors
* Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) sensors
* Ultrasonic Sensors
* Oscillators, Resonators, Timers, Resonator Circuits and Filters
* Voltage-controlled Oscillators
* Atomic and Optical Frequency Standards
* Frequency References
* Frequency Control, Timing and Time Distribution
* Timekeeping, Time and Frequency Transfer
* Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, and Piezomagnetic Materials
* GNSS Applications
* Applications, trends and markets

Contribution Types:

* Keynote presentations
* Invited talks
* Industrial presentations
* Regular presentations
* Special Session presentations
* Virtual Sessions on demand.
* Posters
* Panel Discussions & Round tables
* Exhibition
* Special Sessions and Tutorials:

Authors are welcome to propose and manage special sessions during the IFTC' 2024. Each special session will contain 4-6 papers in a related field as specified above.

Session organizers will get:

* Certificate of Appreciation
* Free Registration for the Event

One Event - three different publications !

All registered abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings with the ISBN and DOI. Authors will be invited to submit full-page extended papers to special issue of Sensors & Transducers open access journal (ISSN 2306-8515, e-ISSN 1726-5479), which is publishing in both formats: print (paper back) and electronic (pdf). The authors will be also invited to extend their papers and articles to book chapters for the open access Book Series on 'Frequency & Time: Measurements, Control and Transfer', Book Series, Vol. 2, which will be published by IFSA Publishing at the end of 2024 - beginning of 2025.