CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS "Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science" AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 1567-1739 DESCRIPTION . Current Applied Physics (Curr. Appl. Phys.) is a monthly published international interdisciplinary journal covering all applied science in physics, chemistry, and materials science, with their fundamental and engineering aspects. Topics covered in the journal are diverse and reflect the most current applied research, including: • Spintronics and superconductivity • Photonics, optoelectronics, and spectroscopy • Semiconductor device physics • Physics and applications of nanoscale materials • Plasma physics and technology • Advanced materials physics and engineering • Dielectrics, functional oxides, and multiferroics • Organic electronics and photonics • Energy-related materials and devices • Advanced optics and optical engineering • Biophysics and bioengineering, including soft matters and fluids • Emerging, interdisciplinary and others related to applied physics • Regular research papers, letters and review articles with contents meeting the scope of the journal will be considered for publication after peer review. The journal is owned by the Korean Physical Society (http://www.kps.or.kr ) AUDIENCE . Chemists, physicists, materials scientists and engineers with an interest in advanced materials for future applications. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 2.480 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/cap 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Scopus Science Citation Index Expanded INSPEC EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Bongjin Simon Mun, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea Executive Editor Jae-Won Jang, Dongguk University Department of Semiconductor Science, Seoul, South Korea Vice Executive Editors Sunghwan Kim, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea Geun Woo Lee, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, South Korea Editorial Board Sang Don Bu, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-si, South Korea Deok-Yong Cho, Jeonbuk National University, Department of Physics, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea Shinuk Cho, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea Kim Heedae, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China Kwang Heo, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea Seok-Cheol Hong, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea Ho Won Jang, Seoul National University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwanak-gu, South Korea Seung Soon Jang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America Goohwan Jeong, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea Haeyong Kang, Pusan National University Department of Physics, Busan, South Korea Neeraj Khare, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India Chang-Seok Kim, Pusan National University, Geumjeong-gu, South Korea Dong-Hyun Kim, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea Hyun You Kim, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea Jun Sung Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, The Republic of Korea Center for Artistic Low Dimensional Electronic Systems, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea Kwanpyo Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Myung Hwa Kim, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea Sanghoon Kim, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea Sooran Kim, Kangwon National University Department of Physics, Daegu, South Korea Yunseok Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea Changhyun Ko, Sookmyung Women's University, Yongsan-gu, South Korea Dong Su Lee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seongbuk-gu, South Korea Dongwoo Lee, Sungkyunkwan University College of Engineering, Suwon, South Korea Hyun Seok Lee, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea Hyunbok Lee, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea Sang-Kwon Lee, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea Yunsang Lee, Soongsil University, Dongjak-gu, South Korea Sung-Kwan Mo, E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America Se Youn Moon, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-si, South Korea Soong Ju Oh, Korea University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul, South Korea Yoon Seok Oh, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Department of Physics, Ulsan, South Korea Jong-Soo Rhyee, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea Sang-Wan Ryu, Chonnam National University, Department of Physics, Gwangju, South Korea Young-Han Shin, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea Dongseok Suh, Sungkyunkwan University, Jongno-gu, South Korea Sheng Xu, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America Wanli Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, California, United States of America International Advisory Editorial Board Masakazu Aono, Osaka University, Kawani-Shi, Japan Ching-Wu Chu, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America Esther Conwell, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, NY, USA Lev Gor'kov, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/cap 2 Alan Heeger, University of California Santa Barbara Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Denis Jérome, Paris-Saclay University, St Aubin, France Yung Woo Park, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea George Sawatzky, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada John Robert Schrieffer, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America Hideki. Shirakawa, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Frans Spaepen, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America Ken Suzuki, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan Masashi Tachiki, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba-Shi, Japan Shoji Tanaka, International Superconductivity Technology Center Superconductivity Research Laboratory, Koto- Ku, Japan Fosong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Chung Nam Whang, Yonsei University, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, South Korea Jim Williams, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Tokio Yamabe, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan Zhong-Xian Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Daoben Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Officers of the Society 2021-2022 President Tae Won Noh, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Publisher The Korean Physical Society, The Korean Science Technology Center (Rm.601), 22, Teheran-ro 7-gil, Gangnam-gu, 06130, Seoul, Republic of Korea Contact Information In-Ji Song AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/cap 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . 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