eLight
Last updated ISSN 2097-1710
eLight is published by Springer Nature in materials science. It is open access. There is no article processing charge.
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What it publishes
Recent work in eLight concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Optical Network Technologies
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2097-1710, 2662-8643 |
| Subject area | Materials Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | None |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 138 |
| Publishing since | 2021 |
| Journal website | elight.springeropen.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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