Preface: Phys. Status Solidi C 8/2

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AbstractThe present issue of physica status solidi contains the papers presented at the 37th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS 2010). The symposium was held in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, May 31–June 4, 2010. This symposium was one in an annual series that is held throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The last three conferences were held in Santa Barbara, USA (2009), Rust, Germany (2008) and Kyoto, Japan (2007).The symposium, which began in 1966 under the name “International Symposium on GaAs and Related Compounds” has a long standing tradition in science, technology, and applications of compound semiconductors. At the 2010 conference, 11 subcommittees (Growth and Nanostructure Formation; Electron Devices; Photonic Devices; New Properties and Physics; Spintronics; Nanocharacterization and Nanodevices; GaN and Related Semiconductors; Oxide Semiconductors; Carbon Related Materials; Organic Semiconductors and Other Soft Materials; Solar Cells) covered the entire spectrum of III–V compound semiconductors as well as II–VI, oxide semiconductors, and carbon related materials.The symposium was first collocated with the International Conference on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials (IPRM 2010) as “Compound Semiconductor Week 2010”. The ISCS and IPRM conferences attracted about 670 participants in total and the ISCS 2010 attended by 462 registered participants from more than 22 countries all over the world. Over the course of the symposium, 3 general plenary talks (conducted with IPRM), 3 plenary talks, 41 invited papers, 22 late news papers as well as 368 contributed papers were given as oral or poster presentations. The ISCS 2010 highlighted emerging wide‐band gap and oxide semiconductor materials and devices as well as high‐speed electronics, next generation photonics, and physics studies based on traditional compound semiconductors. The importance of the green application of compound semiconductors was also well addressed.The symposium is also the venue for the attribution of three prestigious scientific awards, the Welker Award, the Quantum Device Award and the Young Scientist Award.The Proceedings contains many of the papers presented at the symposium.We would like to thank all the participants of the ISCS 2010 for contributing to the success of the symposium and acknowledge the diligent work of the committee members and referees of the manuscripts.We would also like to thank Prof. Hiroshi Itoh and other members of Kagawa University for their excellent local organization. Takamatsu, a beautiful city facing an inland sea called “Setonaikai”, has Japanese style gardens, local culture, and the delicious Japanese noodle “Udon”, giving us the ideal location to combine a scientific conference with motivating entertainment.The 38th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, organized by Prof. Oliver Ambacher will be held at Berlin, Germany, May 22–26, 2011.January 2011