''ACS Photonics'' is a monthly,

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, first published in January 2014 by the

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. The current

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is Romain Quidant (

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). The interdisciplinary journal publishes original research articles, letters, comments, reviews and perspectives.

Scope

The focus of ''ACS Photonics'' is the science of

photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. E ...

and light-matter interactions. The areas of research reported in the journal are: *

Nanophotonics Nanophotonics or nano-optics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light. It is a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology. I ...

, including plasmonics and polaritonics *Optical materials, including quantum/topological materials, 2D materials and phase change materials *AI for photonics (e.g. Inverse design) and photonics for AI (e.g. optical computing) *Integrated photonics *Light sources, including new classes of lasing devices and

LED A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light (corresp ...

with improved performance and new integration strategies *Photodetection, including new device principles, device physics and device architectures *

Nonlinear optics Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in Nonlinearity, nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization density P responds non-linearly to the electric field E of the light. The non-linearity ...

*Quantum photonics *Photonics-based wearables *Virtual and augmented reality *Photonics for energy, including photonic enhancement to solar energy harvesting, waste heat harvesting (thermophotovoltaics), and wireless photonic energy transmission * Biophotonics, advanced optical imaging, photonics-based biosensing *Optical trapping and optical manipulation *Optomechanics *Fundamentals of light-matter interaction *Electron-beam spectroscopies and ultrafast electron microscopy *Terahertz photonics, including devices, imaging and spectroscopy

Abstracting and indexing

''ACS Photonics'' is indexed in the following databases: *

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– CASSI * Chemistry Citation Index *

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– Engineering, Computing & Technology *

- Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences *

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MEDLINE MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medic ...

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According to the 2015 Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Reuters on June 13, 2016, ACS Photonics has received its first impact factor of 5.404. According to the ''

Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publication by Clarivate. It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science Core Collection. It provides information about academic journals in the natur ...

'', the journal has a 2023

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ...

of 6.5.

References

External links

* {{American Chemical Society Journals

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