The semiconductor devices are facing the paradigm shift to realize future ubiquitous network society, and the demands for high-performance and new-functional devices have been growing especially from the environmental point of view. The objective of the special section is to discuss recent progress of fundamentals and applications of advanced semiconductor devices to meet the demand. This special section covers the entire field of semiconductor devices and materials from fundamental physics to advanced device technologies, and contains 21 papers in total; 16 of them are on Si and related devices and 5 on compound semiconductor and emerging devices. The guest editor would like to express sincere thank to all the authors for their contributions and to all the reviewers for their help. He is also grateful to the editorial committee members for their dedicated efforts in organizing this special section.
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