**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Stephen Edward Saddow** started his involvement in SiC technology in 1992 when he started to develop optically-activated switching of 6H-SiC. He spent nearly 20 years focusing on epitaxial growth of SiC along with the development of porous SiC and novel defect reduction techniques specifically aimed at improving the material quality of 3C-SiC grown on Si substrates. For the past decade he has focused his efforts on the development of SiC for biomedical devices, first via materials studies (in-vitro and in-vivo) and more recently device prototyping. Currently he is focusing on the development of robust, implantable SiC devices for long-term operation as well as SiC-based nanostructures for the treatment of deep-tissue cancer. He is also leading a Bioelectronics Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at USF with the specific purpose of allowing for rapid translation of biomedical device research to commercial products.

**Daniel Alquier** is Professor and Research Vice-President at Universite de Tours, doing his research in ´ GREMAN (UMR CNRS 7347). He prepared his PhD. at the LAAS-CNRS on ultra-shallow junctions in 1998. He occupied then a position in Taiwan for PixTech-UNIPAC. Since 2000, he is working at the University of Tours and became professor in 2005. Pr. D. Alquier is the author and co-author of more than 140 papers and 6 patents. He has participated to several European and national projects. His fields of interest are wide band gap semiconductors (SiC & GaN), MEMS & NEMS and engineering for power and medical applications.

**Jing Wang** is a Professor and Co-Director of Center for Wireless and Microwave Information Systems (WAMI) at the University of South Florida. He go<sup>t</sup> dual B.S. degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1999. He received two M.S. degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, and an Electrical Engineering Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000, 2002, 2006, respectively. His research interests include micromachined transducers, RF/Bio-MEMS, microwave/mmWave devices, RF additive manufacturing, lab-on-a-chip/microfluidics, and functional nanomaterials. His work has been funded by grants from federal agencies (NSF, DTRA, US Army, US Air Force) and contracts from many companies totaling over \$14 M. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and holds 11 US patents. He serves as the chair for IEEE MTT/AP/EDS Florida West Coast Section and he acted as the general chair or TPC chair for IEEE WAMICON Conferences in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2020.

**Francesco LaVia** was born in Catania (Italy) in 1961. He graduated in Physics at the University of Catania in 1985. From 1985 to 1990 he had a scholarship at the STMicroelectronics in Catania. In 1990 he joined the CNR-IMM of Catania. In 2001 he became senior researcher and became head of the research team working on epitaxy and hetero-epitaxy of silicon carbide. He was responsible of several industrial projects and contracts and actually coordinates two European projects. In his career he has published more than 300 papers in JCR journals, 11 patents, two articles on invitation, three chapters in books and he was editor of four books. He presented several invited talks at international conferences and has co-organized several conferences and tutorials. He has been the Co-Chair of the ICSCRM2015 and Chair of the Technical Program Committee. He is member of the Steering Committee of the ICSCRM conference.

**Mariana Fraga** obtained her PhD in Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering (with concentration on materials science) from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics and master's degree in electrical engineering (with concentration in Microelectronics) from the University of Sao Paulo ˜ (USP), Brazil. Her major research efforts are in the fields of materials science and engineering, and can be briefly summarized as follows: (i) synthesis and characterization of thin films and nanostructures, more specifically those based on silicon carbide (SiC), CVD diamond, diamond-like carbon (DLC), aluminium nitride (AlN) and titanium dioxide (TiO2), and (ii) development of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) sensors, microelectronic devices, solar energy conversion devices, biomedical devices, and coatings for technological applications. Currently, she is a visiting professor at the Institute of Science and Technology, ICT-UNIFESP. She also serves as Member of the Editorial Board for five international journals. She is the co-editor of the book Emerging Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage.
