Foreword

Welcome to the 33^rd edition of the International Semiconductor Conference (CAS 2010). This event is taking place every year since 1978. It was organized until 1996 as an Annual Semiconductor Conference (in Romanian-Conferinta Anuala de Semiconductoare-CAS). Starting with the year 1991, CAS was opened to the international scientific community and changed its name accordingly to the International Semiconductor Conference, still maintaining the same acronym (CAS). Since 1997, the organizer of CAS has been the National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies (IMT-Bucharest).