''Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics'' is a

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published by

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. It was established in 1968 from the division of the earlier title, '' Proceedings of the Physical Society''. It has a broad coverage, including five main focus areas:

magnetism Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, ...

;

photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. E ...

and

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping level ...

s; plasmas and plasma-surface interactions; applied surfaces and interfaces;

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and properties of

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and renewable energy/sustainability. The

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is Huiyun Liu (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2023

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of 3.1.

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://iopscience.org/jphysd Physics journals IOP Publishing academic journals Academic journals established in 1950 Weekly journals English-language journals 1950 establishments in the United Kingdom