FOREWORD

This special section is focusing on fundamentals and application of advanced semiconductor devices.The authors who gave their presentations at the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Advanced Semiconductor Devices (AWAD) mainly submitted their papers to this special section.The 32th of AWAD was successfully held on July 3rd and 4th, 2025 with 85 papers.This year, excellent papers related to Advanced semiconductor technologies & Nano, 2D materials, Power electronic devices & Compound semiconductor and wide bandgap devices, Optoelectronics, displays, imagers and sensors, MOS logic and memory devices and Quantum devices and computing technologies & Neuromorphic devices, wearable devices were accepted in this special section, which are important topics for the advanced semiconductor devices.I believe this special section would be helpful for the readers to understand the current topics and future prospects of the advanced semiconductor devices.