Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Announces Special Issue on Energy Frontiers

Special Issue on Energy Frontiers
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology is soliciting research articles for publication in a Special July/August 2012 Issue on Energy Conversion and Storage.

This Special Issue will be dedicated to the science and technology of energy conversion and storage. Research articles based on material presented during the 58th AVS Symposium Energy Frontiers Sessions are especially welcome. However, the special issue will be open to all articles on the science and technology of energy conversion and storage even if they were not presented at this conference. Articles are solicited in topics ranging from all types of photovoltaics and photocatalysis to materials and thin films for energy conversion and storage including nanostructured materials such as nanoparticles and nanowires. Of particular interest are articles on (i) fundamental interfacial and surface science of materials for energy conversion and storage; (ii) electron transfer processes at interfaces; (iii) excitonic solar cells including dye-sensitized and quantum-dot solar cells (iv) organic solar cells; (v) applications of plasmonics in energy conversion; (vi) thermophotovoltaics and thermoelectrics (vii) thin films for energy conversion and storage (viii) transparent conducting oxides (ix) thin films for solar fuels (x) lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells; (xi) traditional and emerging solar cell technologies including, crystalline, polycrystalline and thin film silicon, CdTe, chalcogenides (CIGS, CZTS), multijunction devices; (xii) materials for nuclear energy.

Papers will be reviewed using the same criteria as regular JVST articles and must meet JVST standards for both technical content and written English. To be published in JVST, the manuscript must:
 
(1)   present original findings, conclusions or analysis that have not been published previously
(2)   be free of errors and ambiguities,
(3)   support conclusions with data and analysis,
(4)   written clearly, and
(5)   have high impact in its field.

In preparing your article, you should follow the instructions for contributors, which may be found at
http://avspublications.org/jvsta/authors/information_for_contributors.

Authors are encouraged to use the JVST templates. The easiest way to prepare your manuscript is to use the available JVST Article Template to delete and replace text as necessary. This file and the template used to create it are available at the site above. Online, you will have an opportunity to tell us that your paper is a part of the special issue by choosing “Energy Frontiers Special Issue.”

Acceptable manuscript file types are MSWord, LaTeX, and PDF. For the initial submission/review process, a single PDF or MSWord file including the figures is sufficient. However, once a paper is accepted, MSWord or TeX file of the text, any tables and the list of figure captions along with the separate figure files will be required for final production. Use of color in Figures is encouraged. Your FIGURES CAN APPEAR ONLINE IN COLOR FOR FREE. Prepare illustrations in the final published size, not oversized or undersized.