Preface
Only recently the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the invention of the first transistor. The first integrated circuit was built a decade later, with the first microprocessor designed in the early 1970s. Today, integrated circuits are part of almost every aspect of our daily life. They help us to live longer and more comfortably, and to do more, and do it faster. And all that is possible because of the relentless search for new materials, new circuit designs, and new ideas happening on a daily basis at universities and within the industry around the globe.
Proliferation of integrated circuits in our daily lives does not mean making more of the same. It is actually the opposite. It is about making more of something completely ...
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