Guest Editorial Special Issue on Power Semiconductor Devices and Smart Power IC Technologies

Power semiconductor devices have been a mainstay of electron device technology since the introduction of the thyristor in the late 1950s. In the last six decades, electron devices and VLSI technology have gone through unprecedented changes. The state-of-the-art performance has progressed closely according to the famous Moore's Law, since it was introduced in 1965. The current techno-trend is the “More Than Moore” roadmap with emphasis on System in Package and 3-D integration. Over this period, we have witnessed device feature sizes shrinking from several microns in the 1970s to the 10-nm production-ready processes in 2017. At the same time, power semiconductor devices have also benefited significantly from these advancements.