''Physica Status Solidi'', often stylized ''physica status solidi'' or ''pss'', is a family of international

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s, publishing research on all aspects of

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, and materials science. It is owned and published by Wiley–VCH. These journals publish over 2000 articles per year, making it one of the largest international publications in

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. The current

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is Stefan Hildebrandt at the Editorial Office based in

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. This office also manages the peer-review process.

History

''Physica Status Solidi'' was founded by Karl Wolfgang Böer (then at

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) in

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and published its first issue in July 1961. Shortly after the journal was founded, the construction of the

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in August 1961 exacerbated the distances between scientists from the

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and

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s. Throughout the

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''Physica Status Solidi'' maintained political independence and

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as publication language and, as such, it became a major platform for the scientists behind the

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to disseminate their results in the Western world (and vice versa) and thus a forum of international exchange for scientists from the East and the West. In 1970 the journal was divided into series A (''Applications and Materials Science'') and B (''Basic Solid State Physics''). In 2003, series C (''Current Topics in Solid State Physics'') was created to accommodate the publication of

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. Following the

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in 1990 the journal's original publisher

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became part of the VCH Publishing group, which again was merged into

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, leading to the formation of Wiley-VCH Verlag in 1997. A fourth series, RRL (''Rapid Research Letters''), was launched in 2007 to publish short articles of broader and immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Publication times are typically two weeks from submission to online publication.

Journals

References

External links

Physica Status Solidi A

Physica Status Solidi B

Physica Status Solidi C

Physica Status Solidi RRL
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