期刊名称：APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Applied Physics Express (APEX) is a letter journal devoted solely to rapid dissemination of up-to-date and concise reports on new findings in applied physics. This is published weekly online and monthly for the printed version.
APEX is the successor to the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP) letter section, JJAP Part 2, and not only has inherited the world-wide recognition of JJAP Part 2 (Letters and Express Letters), but also further promotes its strength in high scientific quality and prompt publication. In the journal policy, special emphasis is placed on high scientific and/or technological impact of its published papers.
APEX is a sister journal of JJAP and is published by the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) through the Institute of Pure and Applied Physics (IPAP).
HIGH-QUALITY PUBLICATIONS IN FASTER PROCEDURE
The motto of APEX is high scientific quality and prompt publication. Papers for APEX will be published online within 2 weeks, in the fastest case, from receipt to online publication. The motto is further strengthened by introducing a new editorial team dedicated to APEX
SUBJECTS COVERED BY APEX
The journal publishes articles dealing with the applications of physical principles as well as articles concerning the understanding of physics with particular applications in mind. However as a letter journal, emphasis will be given to developing and emerging fields in applied physics. A work of high originality but concerning a field not in a competitive area may be suggested to be submitted to the JJAP Communication section. Examples of fields of current interest includes
- Semiconductor, superconductor, spintronic, dielectric, and organic materials
- Photonics, quantum electronics, and plasmonics
- Device physics
- Nanoscale science and technology
- Thin films, surfaces, interfaces, and crystal growth
- Plasmas, atomic, molecular, and chemical physics, and applied nuclear physics
- Instrumentation, measurement, and fabrication technologies
- Cross-disciplinary areas such as bioelectronics/photonics and environmental/energy technologies
CATEGORY OF PAPERS
Letters
- The maximum length is three printed pages, including tables and figures (about 3000 words).
- Abstract of no more than 100 words should be provided.
- A Letter should not be divided into sections.
- Full color printing for figures without extra charge.
- Manuscripts should be written in clear and correct English. Manuscripts will be returned to the authors without review if the presentation of English is unacceptable. No English language correction services will be provided in the editorial process.
Comments and Replies
- Comments on papers previously published in APEX, and replies to such comments.
- Abstract is not necessary.
- The maximum length for comments or replies is two printed pages
Instructions to Authors
Editorial Policy of APEX
HIGH QUALITY PAPERS WITH RAPID REVIEW/PUBLICATION PROCEDURES
APEX publishes brief original papers with highly timely and novel research results, and with sufficiently strong impact in the relevant fields and society to merit priority handling in the review and publication processes. A new editorial team dedicated to APEX and a strict review policy for critical and rapid evaluation strengthen the publication of high-quality papers in a short time after their submission.
ORIGINALITY
- APEX does not accept manuscripts that have been published or submitted elsewhere.
- APEX does not accept manuscripts that have been accepted (or are under active consideration) for publication elsewhere.
- APEX may accept a paper that has appeared in a similar form in publications not available to the general public, such as conference proceedings, reports, and abstracts for international conferences, but the author(s) must submit a cover letter stating the previous publication and a reprint(s) at the time of manuscript submission.
REVIEWING PROCESSES
- When manuscripts have been received by the Editor-in-Chief, an acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to the author(s) via e-mail. The Editor-in-Chief chooses an editor to handle the manuscript review.
- The submitted manuscript will be subjected to screening review for its scope, novelty, completeness, English level, and conformation to the APEX policy. A manuscript not passing the screening review will immediately be returned to the authors.
- The editor in charge will select an expert reviewer to evaluate the manuscript.
- As a result of review, if the editor decides that the minor revision by the author(s) is necessary (only once in principle), the manuscript will be returned to the authors for revision. Papers which require major revisions will be rejected.
- Manuscripts returned to authors for revision should be resubmitted promptly. If the revision cannot be finished within one month, the manuscript will be regarded as having been withdrawn.
- The Editor-in-Chief will finally decide whether or not to accept the manuscript for publication.
- Authors can make an appeal against rejection by document only once.
CITATION FORMAT
APEX uses a citation format based on six-digit article IDs instead of conventional page numbers.
The structure of the six-digit article ID is as follows:
- first two digits indicate the issue number.
- middle two digits indicate the article type and/or subject area.
- 1n: Semiconductor, superconductor, spintronic, dielectric, and organic materials
- 2n: Photonics, quantum electronics, and plasmonics
- 3n: Device physics
- 4n: Nanoscale science and technology
- 5n: Thin films, surfaces, interfaces, and crystal growth
- 6n: Plasmas, atomic, molecular, and chemical physics, and applied nuclear physics
- 7n: Instrumentation, measurement, and fabrication technologies
- 8n: Cross-disciplinary areas such as bioelectronics/photonics and environmental/energy technologies
- 91: Comments and replies
- 92: Errata
- last two digits assigned according to publication order, within that issue and section.
An example of the correct citation format for an article in APEX is:
A. Oyo and B. Buturi: Appl. Phys. Express 1 (2008) 011001.
In the full-text PDF file available online and in the printed issue, the article ID appears on each printed page. A hyphen followed by a page number added consecutively is appended at the end of the article ID. For the sample article above, the printed pages would appear with this page numbering: 011001-1, 011001-2, and 011001-3. The hyphen and page numbers should not be used when citing or searching for an article.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
- Kazuhiko Hirakawa (University of Tokyo)
- Hitoshi Tabata (University of Tokyo)
Depute Editor-in-Chief
- Takeshi Kamiya (Japan Society of Applied Physics)
International Advisors
- Gerhard Abstreiter (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Connie Chang-Hasnain (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Richard Friend (Cambridge University, UK)
- Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Overseas Editors
- Yi Luo (Tsinghua University, China)
- Seong-Ju Park (Gwanju Insitute of Science and Technology, Korea)
- Dimitris Pavlidis (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
- James S. Speck (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
Editors
- Kazuhide Abe (Toshiba)
- Katsuhiro Akimoto (University of Tsukuba)
- Seiji Akita (Osaka Prefecture University)
- Hidefumi Asano (Nagoya University)
- Tanemasa Asano (Kyushu University)
- Shizuo Fujita (Kyoto University)
- Yasufumi Fujiwara (Osaka University)
- Masamitsu Haruna (Osaka University)
- Susumu Horita (JAIST)
- Toshiro Itani (Selete)
- Takashi Itoh (Gifu University)
- Susumu Kamada (KEK)
- Katsumi Kishino (Sophia University)
- Akihiro Kono (Nagoya University)
- Masaaki Kuzuhara (University of Fukui)
- Yukari Matsuo (RIKEN)
- Tetsu Mieno (Shizuoka University)
- Tatsuo Mori (Nagoya University)
- Hiroyoshi Naito (Osaka Prefecture University)
- Yoshiaki Nakano (University of Tokyo)
- Hisao Nakashima (Japan Society of Applied Physics)
- Toshio Ogino (Yokohama National University)
- Junji Ohtsubo (Shizuoka University)
- Kouichi Ono (Kyoto University)
- Nobuhiko Sarukura (Osaka University)
- Tetsuo Shidara (KEK)
- Maki Suemitsu (Tohoku University)
- Ikuo Suemune (Hokkaido University)
- Toshiaki Suhara (Osaka University)
- Keiji Tanaka (Hokkaido University)
- Kazuo Tsutsui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Osamu Ueda (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
- Takashi Yamamoto (National Defense Academy)
- Hiroo Yonezu (Toyohashi University of Technology)
- Shinji Yuasa (AIST)
|
