Applied Physics was founded in 1973 and is one of the leading international, peer-reviewed journals in the area of experimental and theoretical investigations in applied research and materials science. It appears monthly in issues of varying size.
Applied Physics A publishes regular articles, rapid communications, and invited papers about new results.
重点关注凝聚相，包括纳米结构材料及其应用。除了关于表面和薄膜的文章以外，本期刊的内容还包括先进加工和表征技术、高打印质量在扫描探针显微镜等领域的应用。
Instructions for authors are found at http://springer.com/00339, then click on Submission guidelines
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF. Extensive reference linking is also provided through CrossRef and other services. The table of contents and the abstracts are accessible free of charge. The full text and references with reference linking are accessible to subscribers.

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