Physica Status Solidi
Encyclopedia
Physica Status Solidi is a family of international peer-reviewed
, scientific journal
s, publishing research on all aspects of solid state physics, and material science. It is owned and published by Wiley–VCH
. These journals publish over 2000 articles per year, making it one of the largest international publications in condensed matter physics
. The current editor in chief
is Martin Stutzmann (Technische Universität München). The peer-review process is managed by the Editorial Office based in Berlin
.
) in East Berlin
and published its first issue in July 1961. Shortly after the journal was founded, the construction of the Berlin Wall
in August 1961 exacerbated the distances between scientists from the Eastern
and Western bloc
s. Throughout the cold war
Physica Status Solidi maintained political independence and English
as publication language and, as such, it became a major platform for the scientists behind the Iron Curtain
to disseminate their results in the Western world (and vice versa) and thus a forum of international exchange for scientists from the East and the West.
In 1970 the journal was divided into series A (Applications and Materials Science) and B (Basic Solid State Physics). In 2003, series C (Current Topics in Solid State Physics) was created to accommodate the publication of conference proceedings.
Following the reunification of Germany in 1990 the journal’s original publisher Akademie Verlag
became part of the VCH Publishing group, which again was merged into John Wiley & Sons
, leading to the formation of the Wiley-VCH Verlag in 1997.
A fourth series, RRL (Rapid Research Letters), was launched in 2007 to publish short articles of broader and immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Publication times are typically two weeks from submission to online publication.
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
, scientific journal
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...
s, publishing research on all aspects of solid state physics, and material science. It is owned and published by Wiley–VCH
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
. These journals publish over 2000 articles per year, making it one of the largest international publications in condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics deals with the physical properties of condensed phases of matter. These properties appear when a number of atoms at the supramolecular and macromolecular scale interact strongly and adhere to each other or are otherwise highly concentrated in a system. The most familiar...
. The current editor in chief
Editor in chief
An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...
is Martin Stutzmann (Technische Universität München). The peer-review process is managed by the Editorial Office based in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
History
Physica Status Solidi was founded by Karl W. Böer (then at Humboldt University of BerlinHumboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...
) in East Berlin
East Berlin
East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945. The American, British and French sectors became West Berlin, a part strongly associated with West Germany but a free city...
and published its first issue in July 1961. Shortly after the journal was founded, the construction of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
in August 1961 exacerbated the distances between scientists from the Eastern
Eastern bloc
The term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...
and Western bloc
Western Bloc
The Western Bloc or Capitalist Bloc during the Cold War refers to the powers allied with the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact...
s. Throughout the cold war
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
Physica Status Solidi maintained political independence and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
as publication language and, as such, it became a major platform for the scientists behind the Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain
The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989...
to disseminate their results in the Western world (and vice versa) and thus a forum of international exchange for scientists from the East and the West.
In 1970 the journal was divided into series A (Applications and Materials Science) and B (Basic Solid State Physics). In 2003, series C (Current Topics in Solid State Physics) was created to accommodate the publication of conference proceedings.
Following the reunification of Germany in 1990 the journal’s original publisher Akademie Verlag
Akademie Verlag
Akademie Verlag is a German scientific and academic publishing company, originally founded in 1946 in the Soviet-occupied Eastern part of divided Berlin to facilitate the publication of works by and for the German Academy of Sciences Berlin....
became part of the VCH Publishing group, which again was merged into John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
, leading to the formation of the Wiley-VCH Verlag in 1997.
A fourth series, RRL (Rapid Research Letters), was launched in 2007 to publish short articles of broader and immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Publication times are typically two weeks from submission to online publication.
Journals
| Journal | Abbreviation | Scope | Frequency (issues/year) | Publication History | Impact factor Impact factor The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed... (2010) |
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| Physica Status Solidi | Phys. Status Solidi | Initial journal, predecessor of the later (b) series | varying | 1961–1970 | ||
| Physica Status Solidi (a) – Applications and Materials Science | Phys. Status Solidi A | Preparation, structure and simulation of advanced materials, nanostructure Nanostructure A nanostructure is an object of intermediate size between molecular and microscopic structures.In describing nanostructures it is necessary to differentiate between the number of dimensions on the nanoscale. Nanotextured surfaces have one dimension on the nanoscale, i.e., only the thickness of the... s, surfaces and interfaces Interface (chemistry) An interface is a surface forming a common boundary among two different phases, such as an insoluble solid and a liquid, two immiscible liquids or a liquid and an insoluble gas. The importance of the interface depends on which type of system is being treated: the bigger the quotient area/volume,... , as well as properties of such materials and structures relevant for device applications (magnetic, electromechanical Magnetism Magnetism is a property of materials that respond at an atomic or subatomic level to an applied magnetic field. Ferromagnetism is the strongest and most familiar type of magnetism. It is responsible for the behavior of permanent magnets, which produce their own persistent magnetic fields, as well... , or electronic devices Solid state (electronics) Solid-state electronics are those circuits or devices built entirely from solid materials and in which the electrons, or other charge carriers, are confined entirely within the solid material... , photonics Photonics The science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, detection and sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasizes that photons are neither particles nor waves — they are different in that they have both particle... , spintronics Spintronics Spintronics , also known as magnetoelectronics, is an emerging technology that exploits both the intrinsic spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment, in addition to its fundamental electronic charge, in solid-state devices.An additional effect occurs when a spin-polarized current is... , sensor Sensor A sensor is a device that measures a physical quantity and converts it into a signal which can be read by an observer or by an instrument. For example, a mercury-in-glass thermometer converts the measured temperature into expansion and contraction of a liquid which can be read on a calibrated... s, etc.). It does not, however, publish materials engineering and electrical engineering Electrical engineering Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical... topics. |
12 | 1970–present | 1.458 | http://www.pss-a.com/ |
| Physica Status Solidi (b) – Basic Solid State Physics | Phys. Status Solidi B | Theoretical and experimental investigations of the atomistic and electronic structure of solids in general, phase transition Phase transition A phase transition is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one phase or state of matter to another.A phase of a thermodynamic system and the states of matter have uniform physical properties.... s, electronic Electronics Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies... , optical Optics Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light... , magnetic Magnetism Magnetism is a property of materials that respond at an atomic or subatomic level to an applied magnetic field. Ferromagnetism is the strongest and most familiar type of magnetism. It is responsible for the behavior of permanent magnets, which produce their own persistent magnetic fields, as well... , superconducting Superconductivity Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance occurring in certain materials below a characteristic temperature. It was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on April 8, 1911 in Leiden. Like ferromagnetism and atomic spectral lines, superconductivity is a quantum... , ferroelectric Ferroelectricity Ferroelectricity is a property of certain materials which possess a spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by the application of an external electric field. The term is used in analogy to ferromagnetism, in which a material exhibits a permanent magnetic moment. Ferromagnetism was... or other properties of solids, low-dimensional, nanoscale, strongly correlated Strongly correlated material Strongly correlated materials are a wide class of electronic materials that show unusual electronic and magnetic properties, such as metal-insulator transitions or half-metallicity... or disordered systems etc. |
12 | 1971–present | 1.344 | http://www.pss-b.com/ |
| Physica Status Solidi (c) – Current Topics in Solid State Physics | Phys. Status Solidi C | Conference Proceedings in the area of solid state physics and materials science. | 12 | 2003–present | Indexed in ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index | http://www.pss-c.com/ |
| Physica Status Solidi – Rapid Research Letters | Phys. Status Solidi Rapid Res. Lett. | Rapid Research Letters on important findings with a high degree of novelty and need for express publication, as well as other results of immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Rapid Research Letters particularly invites papers from interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged.... and emerging new areas of research, with a length limit of 3 pages per contribution. |
9 | 2007–present | 2.660 | http://www.pss-rapid.com/ |