This special issue is the proceedings of the 3rd international symposium of gunma university medical innovation & 8th international conference on advanced micro device engineering (gumi & amde 2016) organized by the human resource cultivation center, gunma university and held on 9 december 2016 in kiryu, japan. Thematic area of this volume is the materials and processing technologies in microelectronics, photonics and energy storage.
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