Announcement Archive
- APS Annual Meeting: 27 February–2 March
Are you attending this year’s annual APS March meeting? AIP is, and we’re hosting a full schedule of fun starting Sunday evening. Stop by our booth (#101) to compete for XBox dominance and prizes, sign up for important AIP updates with the chance at an iPad 2, and get invitations to exclusive AIP events that week. We hope to see you all there! (1 February 2012)
- AIP Publishing unveils new high profile cover design for its portfolio of journals—For more information and to preview the new AIP journal covers, visit: journals.aip.org. (10 January 2012)
- Celebrating APL’s 50th Anniversary!>—The first year of Applied Physics Letters ran approximately 15 articles every two weeks. Since the first issue, published in September 1962, the Journal has evolved to meet the changing needs of the scientific community and to follow the trends of the applied physics field. In the last issue of 2011, a week’s worth of Applied Physics Letters amounts to more than 160 articles across a broad range of topics, all highly-relevant and highly-cited. Now, as APL enters its fiftieth year of serving the needs of physicists and scientists around the globe, we invite you to not only look back at the most highly cited papers from the past 50 years, but also to look forward to another 50 exciting years on the cutting edge of scientific discovery! Read more (4 January 2012)
- Increase in length limit for APL!—APL’s length limit will increase from three pages to 3500 words (approximately 4 printed pages). Check out the new length guidelines. (27 December 2011)
- APL revamps table of content sections—As of 1 Jan 2012, APL will display a reorganized table of contents, including two brand new sections. Read More. (27 December 2011)
- AIP online journals offer MathJax to display mathematics
AIP has partnered with MathJax, an open-source JavaScript display engine that produces high-quality math in all modern browsers, without special set-up requirements. In addition to higher-quality, cross-platform, browser-agnostic equation rendering, readers of AIP online journals can now copy equations from journal articles and paste them directly into text editors like Word, LaTeX, MathType, and research wikis, as well as into calculation software like Maple, Mathematica, and others.
To see MathJax in action, visit your favorite Applied Physics Letters article and select the Read Online option. Once in the HTML view, go to the navigation bar and turn on MathJax. From there you can copy and paste any equation into your favorite MathML-enabled editor.
Watch the video. (30 November 2011)
- Applied Physics Letters is adding new features in the journal website: Check out the “Most Read” and “Most Cited” in the journal homepage to find out the most downloaded articles for the month and papers that are most highly cited by other scientific researchers. (28 November 2011)
- The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel Laureate in Chemistry “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” The prize was awarded to Daniel Shechtman, a distinguished professor at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Contrary to the previous belief that all crystals had a well-defined symmetry with repeatable patterns, Shechtman showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in a pattern that never repeated, yet maintained a well-defined symmetry. (5 October 2011)
- The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

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The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Sharing half the prize is Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley. Sharing the other half jointly are Brian P. Schmidt from the Australian National University, and Adam G. Riess from Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute. (4 October 2011)
- Congratulations to APL author, Professor John A. Rogers, on his selection for the 2011 recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize for innovation (2011), his list of publications in this journal can be accessed here. (18 July 2011)
Applied Physics Letters retains top spot as most highly cited journal in Applied Physics—Journal metrics just released by Thomson Reuters*, once again show Applied Physics Letters (APL) to be the most highly cited journal tracked in the Applied Physics category, with 197,445 citations in 2010. Read more
*2010 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2011) (29 June 2011)
- AIP Chinese language site launched: Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the opening of its Beijing office, AIP has launched a Chinese-language version of its website, which gives Chinese researchers access to critical information about AIP in their own language. Read more (17 June 2011)
- Congratulations to APL author, Professor Jeremy John Baumberg, recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, his list of publications in this journal can be accessed here. (26 May 2011)
- Applied Physics Letters article reporting on how to build a machine that uses contact electrification, or the triboelectric effect, to generate X-rays. (26 May 2011)
- Did you know…?—It is now possible to transfer manuscripts between AIP journals*.
If you feel that your manuscript would be appropriate for publication in another of AIP's journals you may request a transfer by email to the handling journal editorial office. (9 May 2011)
*Please note that transferring manuscript files does not guarantee that the manuscript will be considered by the receiving journal. It is only meant to offer the technical facility to allow transfer of manuscript files and correspondence without the inconvenience of having to resubmit from journal to journal.
- MRS Spring Meeting 25–29 April
Stop by AIP Publishing booth #102 at the MRS Meeting in San Francisco, CA to discover the latest news about AIP journals. Enter to win a Nook ColorTM. (7 April 2011)
- Professor Minn-Tsong Lin joins Applied Physics Letters as new Associate Editor. (5 April 2011)
- We are excited to announce a new partnership with Edanz to provide language editing services to AIP journal authors at reduced rates. Read more (29 March 2011)
- Congratulations to APL Associate Editor, Hong-Jun Gao, the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award (28 March 2011)
- Congratulations to elected 2011 SPIE Fellow, APL Associate Editor, Christoph H. Grein (28 March 2011)
- Visit booth #400 to talk with AIP at APS March Meeting 21–25 March (15 March 2011)
- Congratulations to the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), including APL authors Andrea M. Armani, Adam E. Cohen, Dillon D. Fong, Andrew A. Houck, Sergei V. Kalinin, Emilia Morosan, Willie J. Padilla, Eric Pop, Michelle L. Povinelli, Ivan I. Smalyukh, and Edo Waks. (18 November 2010)
- Professor Hong-Jun Gao joins Applied Physics Letters as new Associate Editor. (7 October 2010)
- The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced. Read more | Resources (5 October 2010)
- Congratulations to Michal Lipson, APL author, recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows grant. (29 September 2010)
- Congratulations to elected 2010 Neutron Scattering Society of America Fellow, Associate Editor, David L. Price (15 July 2010)
- Applied Physics Letters retains top spot as most highly cited journal in Applied Physics (18 June 2010)
- iResearch reader for iPhone and iPod touch (15 June 2010)
- Prototype for a new astronomical detector — Physics Update |
Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 103503 (2010) (18 March 2010)
- REVTeX 4.1 released with AIP style files included
- THE 2009 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
(October 2009)
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 | AIP papers on ribosome and ribosomal systems
(October 2009)
- Good Vibrations: Converting small vibrations into electricity to power batteries in remote electronic devices — Physics Update |
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 254102 (2009)
(25 June 2009)
- Expanded Biophysics Coverage
(October 2009)
- APL and JAP are #1 and #2 in Applied Physics...
(October 2009)
- How Tin Whiskers Grow — Physics Update |
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 221901 (2009)
(2 June 2009)
- Multimedia now available
(26 February 2009)
- The clear future of electronics — a transparent memory device: Press release |
Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 223505 (2008)
(3 December 2008)
- The perfect nanoballoon — how ultrathin "graphene" carbon sheets keep everything inside: Press release |
Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 193107 (2008)
(12 November 2008)
- Congratulations to the newly inducted Fellows of the Materials Research Society, including Associate Editor Orlando Auciello and Editorial Board Members Robert J. Nemanich, Caroline A. Ross, and Zhong-Lin Wang (24 April 2009)
- Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters available for author names
(21 January 2009)
- Reduced fees for color in print
(21 January 2009)
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