Abstract :
Welcome to Beijing for Transducers´11, the 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Micro Systems. The Transducers conference series started in 1981 in Boston, and continued biennially in Delft, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Montreux, San Francisco, Yokohama, Stockholm, Chicago, Sendai, Munich, Boston, Seoul, Lyon, Denver and Beijing. We are pleased to see that the Transducers field has kept growing vigorously since it was founded, and the conference is now ceremoniously greeting its 30 years anniversary.