Light Science & Applications
Last updated ISSN 2047-7538
Light Science & Applications is published by Springer Nature in engineering. It is open access. The article processing charge is $4,190.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Light Science & Applications concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Digital Holography and Microscopy
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2047-7538, 2095-5545 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $4,190 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 2,870 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/lsa/ |
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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