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Special Section on Fundamentals and Applications of Advanced Semiconductor DevicesThis special section focuses on the fundamentals and applications 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 32nd AWAD was successfully held on July 3 rd and 4 th , 2025, featuring 85 papers.This year, excellent papers related to Advanced semiconductor technologies & Nano, 2D materials, Power electronic devices & Compound semiconductor and widebandgap 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.In particular, this issue features cutting-edge research such as the fabrication of amorphous GaOx UV-C photodetectors, artificial proprioception for amoeba-inspired robots, parameter analysis of steep subthreshold transistors, and GA-optimized quantization in ReRAM compute-in-memory.I believe this special section will be highly beneficial for readers to seeking to understand the current topics and future prospects of the advanced semiconductor devices.