Applied Sciences — Open Access Journal

Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417; CODEN: ASPCC7) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on all aspects of applied natural sciences published semi-monthly online by MDPI.
Open Access free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
High visibility: Indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) [search for “Applied Sciences-Basel”], Scopus, Inspec (IET) and other databases.
CiteScore (2018 Scopus data): 2.52, which equals rank 41/275 (Q1) in “General Engineering”;
SJR: 0.379 (Q1 in Engineering [miscellaneous]).
Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 17.3 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 4.6 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2019).
Impact Factor: 2.217 (2018) ; 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.287 (2018)

Guest Editor
Prof. Ivan Rech (ivan.rech@polimi.it)
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20132, Milan, Italy
Interests: single photon avalanche diode; device and modeling; high time resolution electronics for time correlated single photon counting; single photon counting and timing applications

Guest Editor
Dr. Giulia Acconcia (giulia.acconcia@polimi.it)
Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20132, Milan, Italy
Interests: single photon timing applications; integrated electronics

In parallel with the SPW 2019, this special issue was created to give the opportunity to collect the contributions of this conference. The submission of the works to this special issue is completely optional and is not limited exclusively to the works accepted in the Single Photon Workshop 2019.

Papers are solicited in the following areas:
● Single-photon detectors: devices, circuits, and systems to achieve single-photon sensitivity;
● Single-photon sources: materials, schemes, and architectures to generate and control light emission at single photon level;
● Applications: single-photon technologies for scientific and industrial applications, from ground to space and from life science to quantum information processing;
● Metrology: validation techniques and instrumentation to prove single-photon generation and acquisition.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI’s English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

This special issue belongs to the section “Optics and Lasers”.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2020.