WASHINGTON, April 25—The Optical Society (OSA) today announced the launch and publication of the first issue of its newest journal, Optical Materials Express . With a focus on the intersection of optics and materials science, Optical Materials Express joins OSA's diverse portfolio of 15 peer-reviewed optics journals. The editor-in-chief of the new journal is David Hagan, associate dean for academic programs and professor of optics and physics at CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics at the University of Central Florida.
"We are excited to publish the first journal in the industry designed to meet the needs of researchers working in the very broad area where optics and materials science overlap, said Hagan. "The field of optical materials is a diverse one—with topics ranging from nanomaterials to liquid crystals to optical storage media—and Optical Materials Express stands to be the premier source of information in this expansive discipline."
Many features of Optical Materials Express are similar to OSA's other pioneering and highly successful Express publications, Optics Express and Biomedical Optics Express. Most significantly, Optical Materials Express offers rapid, online, and open-access publication. Additionally, the journal will offer the availability of free color figures, movies, animations, and live reference links. HTML with MathML (XHTML) versions of each article, suitable for viewing on a range of electronic devices, are published along with the formatted PDF.
The inaugural issue includes a special section of invited papers on Chiral Optical Materials, edited by Thierry Verbiest of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Vincent Rodriguez of Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, France. The following papers are some of the research highlights from the first issue of Optical Materials Express , which can be accessed online at www.OpticsInfoBase.org/OMEx .
About Optical Materials Express
Optical Materials Express (OMEx) is OSA's newest peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on the synthesis, processing and characterization of materials for applications in optics and photonics. OMEx, which launched in April 2011, primarily emphasizes advances in novel optical materials, their properties, modeling, synthesis and fabrication techniques; how such materials contribute to novel optical behavior; and how they enable new or improved optical devices. For more information, visit www.OpticsInfoBase.org/OMEx .
About OSA
Uniting more than 106,000 professionals from 134 countries, the Optical Society (OSA) brings together the global optics community through its programs and initiatives. Since 1916 OSA has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing educational resources to the scientists, engineers and business leaders who work in the field by promoting the science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and photonics. OSA publications, events, technical groups and programs foster optics knowledge and scientific collaboration among all those with an interest in optics and photonics. For more information, visit www.osa.org .
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