OPTICAL MATERIALS: X an International Journal on the Physics and Chemistry of Optical Materials and Their Applications, Including Devices

OPTICAL MATERIALS: X An international journal on the physics and chemistry of optical materials and their applications, including devices AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.1 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.3 ISSN: 2590-1478 DESCRIPTION . An gold open access international journal on the physics and chemistry of optical materials and their applications, including devices. Optical Materials: X offers authors with high-quality research who want to publish in a gold open access journal the opportunity to make their work immediately, permanently, and freely accessible. Optical Materials: X authors will pay an article publishing charge (APC), have a choice of license options, and retain copyright.Please check the APC on the journal homepage. By selecting this Gold OA journal, you acknowledge to pay a fee upon acceptance. The journal is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. For more information please refer to our FAQs for authors The purpose of Optical Materials: X is to provide a means of communication and technology transfer between researchers who are interested in materials for potential device applications. The journal publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation and applications of optical materials. OPTICAL MATERIALS: X focuses on: • Optical Properties of Material Systems; • The Materials Aspects of Optical Phenomena; • The Materials Aspects of Devices and Applications. Authors can submit separate research elements describing their data to Data in Brief and methods to Methods X. ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . INSPEC Scopus Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/omx 1 EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief A. Srivastava, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 12180-3522, Troy, New York, United States of America Editors J. Ballato, Clemson University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America M.G. Brik, University of Tartu Institute of Physics, Tartu, Estonia M. Ferrari, National Research Council Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies Branch of Trento, Trento, Italy Commissioning Editor F. Scotognella, Polytechnic of Milan Department of Physics, Milano, Italy Associate Editors W. Blanc, University of Cote d'Azur, Nice, France B. Champagne, University of Namur Unit of theoretical and structural physico-chemistry, Namur, Belgium M. Dramićanin, University of Belgrade Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia D. Hreniak, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland Méndez-Ramos, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain S. Morris, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom L. Petit, Tampere University Photonics Laboratory, Tampere, Finland B. Sahraoui, University of Angers, Angers, France F. Scotognella, Polytechnic of Milan Department of Physics, Milano, Italy N. Veeraiah, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, India H. Zheng, Shaanxi Normal University School of Physics and Information Technology, Xian, China E. Zych, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland Advisory Board J.A. Capobianco, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada E. Cavalli, University of Parma, Parma, Italy W. Chen, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jia Ding Qu, China M. Cremona, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil J. Garcia Sole, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain A. Jha, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom S. Jiang, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America M. Nikl, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czechia P.N. Prasad, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America K. Shimamura, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba-Shi, Japan P.A. Tanner, The Education University of Hong Kong Department of Science and Environmental Studies, Hong Kong, Hong Kong B. Viana, National Graduate School of Chemistry of Paris, Paris, France A. Yoshikawa, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/omx 2 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Introduction Optical Materials: X is an open access journal. Types of paper The journal Optical Materials: X publishes regular articles and reviews in the field of optical materials. Contact details for submission Manuscripts should be submitted online only to the Optical Materials web site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/omx/default.aspx. Please consult first the Tutorial for Authors before beginning the submission procedure. Submission checklist You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details. Ensure that the following items are present: One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: • E-mail address • Full postal address All necessary files have been uploaded: Manuscript: • Include keywords • All figures (include relevant captions) • All tables (including titles, description, footnotes) • Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided • Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable) Supplemental files (where applicable) Further considerations • Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked' • All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet) • A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare • Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed • Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements For further information, visit our Support Center. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Ethics in publishing Please see our information on Ethics in publishing. Declaration of competing interest All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/ registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should complete the declaration of competing interest statement using this template and upload to the submission system at the Attach/Upload Files step. Note: Please do not convert the .docx template to another file type. Author signatures are not required. If there are no interests to declare, please choose the first option in the template. More information. AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/omx 3 Submission declaration and verification Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright- holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check. Preprints Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at any time, in line with Elsevier's sharing policy. 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