The SBMicro symposium is a forum dedicated to fabrication and modeling of microsystems, integrated circuits and devices. The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers in the areas of processing, materials, characterization, modeling and TCAD of integrated circuits, microsensors, microactuators and MEMS. This issue of ECS Transactions contains the papers presented at the 2008 conference.

The SBMicro symposium is a forum dedicated to fabrication and modeling of Microsystems, integrated circuits and devices. The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers in the areas of processing, materials, characterization, modeling and TCAD of integrated circuits, microsensors, microactuators, and MEMS. This issue contains the papers presented at the 2007 conference.

This issue of ECS Transactions features eight invited and sixty-seven regular papers on technology, devices, systems, optoelectronics, modeling and characterization; all either directly or indirectly related to microelectronics. The topics presented herein reveal the multidisciplinary character of this field, which definitely incites the highly cooperative trace of human nature.