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## **About the Special Issue Editors**

**Masafumi Kimata** (Prof.) received his MS degree from Nagoya University in 1976, and received his Ph.D. degree from Osaka University in 1992. He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in 1976, and retired from Mitsubishi Electric in 2004. Currently, he is a professor at Ritsumeikan University, where he continues his research on MEMS-based uncooled infrared focal plane arrays and type-II superlattice infrared focal plane arrays. He is a fellow of SPIE.

**Shinpei Ogawa** (Dr.) received his BE and ME degrees and Ph.D. from the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, in 2000, 2002, and 2005, respectively. He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in 2005. He works on various devices including RF-MEMS devices, advanced infrared sensors using plasmonics and metamaterials, and graphene, or other 2D materials-based photodetectors. He is currently a unit leader of plasmonics, metamaterials, and graphene research for novel optoelectronic devices.
