Modern technology increasingly relies on miniaturization and microfabrication to improve the performance of a wide variety of devices and systems. Lasers and laser processing are uniquely suited to a wide variety of microfabrication applications in both production and research environments, making these topics of significant interest to researchers in both industry and academia.

The annual International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication (LPM) provides a unique opportunity for researchers from a variety of fields to exchange ideas and techniques, and fosters discussion on fundamental aspects of laser-matter interaction and the state-of-the-art in laser materials processing among pure scientists, end users and laser manufacturers. We expect that LPM2016 would play an important role not only for understanding fundamental knowledge of laser precision microfabrication but also forecasting future technologies to be developed and the future laser market.