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IEICE TRANS. ELECTRON., VOL.E97–C, NO.7 JULY 2014
FOREWORD
Special Section on Recent Advances in Simulation Techniques and Their Applications for Electronics
The special section of this issue presents a collection of original papers regarding numerical analysis and simulation techniques in electronics engineering. Numerical simulation skills are fundamental and indispensable as for predicting physical phenomena, inventing new devices, and optimizing structures and performance. Consequently they are needed in a wide range of fields, such as optics, micro- and millimeter-waves, and high-speed integrated circuits. The demand for enhancement of simulation ability is unlimited, and remarkable improvements in simulation scale, speed, and accuracy have been achieved thanks to both increasingly available computational power owing to Moore’s law and associated innovations in simulation techniques.
The special section comprises 13 papers, which include an invited paper and three brief papers, describing state-of- the-art research topics and new findings. These papers were selected via strict peer reviews of 23 submissions. The topics covered range from basic numerical algorithms to simulation platforms and applications for design. Together, these papers are useful to update our understanding of simulation techniques, which will be valuable not only to experts in these areas but also to users of commercial simulators. I hope these papers will contribute to the advancement of science and technology by finding a wide readership.
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all the authors for their efforts in preparing the manuscripts. I am also indebted to the reviewers and the editorial committee members for their dedicated efforts in organizing this high-quality special section. Last but not least, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Professor Shinichiro Ohnuki of Nihon University for his excellent work as the guest editor of this special section.
Editorial committee members of this special section:
Guest Editor:
Shinichiro Ohnuki (Nihon University) Guest Associate Editors:
Tuptim Angkaew (Chulalongkorn University) Chunping Chen (Kanagawa University) Yih-Peng Chiou (National Taiwan University) Kazuhiro Fujita (Fujitsu)
Namiko Ikeda (NTT)
Zhewang Ma (Saitama University) Kunimasa Saitoh (Hokkaido University) Jun Shibayama (Hosei University)
Eng Leong Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Yasuhide Tsuji (Muroran Institute of Technology)
Tsugumichi Shibata
, Guest Editor-in-ChiefTsugumichi Shibata(Senior Member) graduated from Tokyo National College of Tech- nology in 1980 and received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1983, 1985, and 1995, respectively. In 1985, he joined NTT, where he was initially engaged in research on electromagnetic-field analyses and high-speed ICs for data transmission systems. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he did research on diakoptics in numerical simulations. He was the chair of the Microwave Simulator Technical Group of the IEICE from 2003 to 2005 and a vice president of the IEICE Electronics Society from 2007 to 2009. He is now the chair of the Electronics Simulation Technical Group of the same society. He had been serving as an Executive Committee member of the VLSI Symposia since 2007 and is a member of the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) Japanese National Committee. He had been a Vis- iting Professor of Hokkaido University during the 2013 fiscal year. He is currently the Director of NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan, and is a senior member of IEEE and IEICE.
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