Journal updates

Prof. Boris Chichkov will be awarded the Julius Springer Prize 2024 which will take place on October 18^th at the Springer Nature office in Berlin, Germany.

In 2023 we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Applied Physics! Click here to read a special collection of invited papers.

We believe that the research presented at COLA 2024 will be, once more, of significant interest to the readers of Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing. Click here to find out more!

The international Conference on Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons in Art and Archaeology (SR2A) has been established since 2005 as the scientific event bringing together scientists and specialists from all over the world working on cultural heritage items with tools provided by large scale facilities. Click here for more information!

Read the Editors' Choice Article for this month

Each issue of Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing features a visually striking figure or image on its cover. To further highlight this, we will be collecting them here.

Prof. Ronald K. Hanson will be awarded the Julius Springer Prize 2023 which will take place at CLEO Europe during the EQEC Plenary Talk and Award Ceremony which was on June 27, 2023, Neue Messe München, ICM, Munich, Germany. 

Congratulations!!

Author Contributions in Applied Physics A starting on November 21^st 2022

Impact Factor for 2021 has been released, APYA increased from 2.584 to 2.983!

This prize, to be awarded annually since 1998, has been established by the Editors of Applied Physics A - Materials Science and Processing and Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics and Springer. See here the winners from former years.

Dr. Richard E. Russo wins Springer Prize award in Applied Physics – join the ceremony on 14 October 2022 at the Magnus Haus in Berlin.

This collection presents articles published in Applied Physics A from 2019 onwards related to UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.

Our 2021 article, Spiky-joint: a bioinspired solution to combine mobility and support by Khaheshi, A., Gorb, S.N. & Rajabi, H. has been downloaded over 18k times in less than two weeks!

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See which Applied Physics A articles received the most article accesses during 2019.

Watch the video of the Julius Springer Prize virtual ceremony and Dr. Jun Ye's lecture on "Measuring the gravitational red shift within a 1-mm atomic sample"!  

Go here to see the taped ceremony!