'' Electronics Letters ''is a

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published biweekly by the

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. It specializes in the rapid publication of short communications on all areas of

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, including optical, communication, and biomedical engineering, as well as electronic circuits and signal processing. In 2010 Electronics Letters was relaunched with a new section at the start of each issue. This section focuses on selected papers within the issue, providing expanded context and background to the research reported, through magazine-style news articles and interviews with the researchers behind the work. The articles are designed to be accessible to a general engineering audience and were made available free of charge, without a subscription, from the journal's website. In 2013 a hybrid open-access model was introduced providing authors whose papers have been accepted for publication with an open access publication option.

History

In 1965, the British engineer and professor Peter Clarricoats, along with the association of

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, pioneered a peer-reviewed platform out of the necessity to quickly disseminate the latest researches in the field of electrical and electronic engineering. He became the first editor-in-chief of Electronics Letters. At present, professor Ian H. White, Head of Photonics Research at the

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and professor

Chris Toumazou Christofer "Chris" Toumazou, CEng (, born 5 July 1961) is a British Cypriot electronic engineer. He is perhaps best known for inventing a fast and portable means of genome sequencing, following his 13-year-old son's diagnosis with end stage k ...

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are the editors-in-chief of Electronics Letters.

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