The 5th International Symposium on Next-Generation Electronics (ISNE 2016) will be held at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan from May 3rd to 6th, 2016. In response to the growing global interest to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd , and 4th ISNE were held successfully in Kaoshiung in 2010, 2013, Taoyuan in 2014, and Taipei in 2015. The conference is supported by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, IEEE Taipei Section, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and the Applied Optoelectronics, INC, Taiwan Brach. The ISNE 2016 will feature plenary and invited talks by famous scientists in solid-state circuits and systems, semiconductor devices and materials, sustainable energy devices and materials, memories, display, sensors, and packaging technologies.