About Flexible and Printed Electronics
Scope
Flexible and Printed Electronics™ is a multidisciplinary journal publishing cutting edge research articles on electronics that can be either flexible, plastic, stretchable, conformable or printed. Research related to electronic materials, manufacturing techniques, components or systems which meets any one (or more) of the above criteria is suitable for publication in the journal.
Subjects included in the journal range from flexible materials and printing techniques, design or modelling of electrical systems and components, advanced fabrication methods and bioelectronics, to the properties of devices and end user applications.
For more detail on the subjects covered please see the breakdown below, however this is not exhaustive. If you are unsure if your article is suitable for the journal, please contact the journal team.
Materials
- Organic materials
- Inorganic materials
- Soft and hybrid material systems
Printing electronics
- Printable inks
- Formulation
- Rheology
- Ink–surface interaction
- Printing systems
- Inkjet
- Electrohydrodynamic
- Aerosol jet
- Screen
- Gravure
- Offset
- Flexographic
Design
- Component design
- Circuit design
- System design
Modelling and reliability of components or systems
- Mechanical
- Thermal
- Electronic
Advanced fabrication
- Nanoimprint based fabrication
- High resolution patterning
- High-throughput nanomanufacturing
- Nanophotonics over large areas
- Heterogeneous integration
- Hybrid printing
- Molded electronics
- Systems in foil
Bioelectronics and stretchable electronics
- Biointerfaces
- Biosensors
- Conformal electronics
- Electronic skin
Devices
- Antenna
- Batteries and supercapacitors
- Memories
- Microsystems
- OLED
- Transistors
- Solar cells
- Sensors and actuators
Applications
- Automotive
- Consumer electronics
- Display and lighting
- Energy
- Photovoltaics
- Thermoelectric
- Energy harvesting
- Energy storage
- IOT devices/systems
- Medical electronics
- Health monitoring
- Biosensors and bioelectronics
- RF electronics and RFID tags
- Smart buildings
- Smart packaging
- Packaging for flexible and wearable electronics
- Structural health monitoring
- Wearable systems
- Augmented reality hardware
- Robotics
Article Types
- Papers: reports of high-quality original research with conclusions representing a significant advance in the field.
- Letters: outstanding concise articles, reporting important, new and timely developments. These articles should be deserving of priority review, and you are required to upload a justification statement along with your submission.
- Focus issue articles: invited articles, which will form a special collection of papers on a specific theme. When asked to select ‘Article Type’ on the submission system, please select ‘Special Issue Article’. Then select the focus issue you’re submitting to in the drop down box that appears.
- Topical reviews: written by leading researchers in their fields, these articles present the background to and overview of a particular field, and the current state of the art. Topical review articles are normally invited by the Editorial Board.
- Comments: comment or criticism on work published in the journal within the last year. These are usually published with an associated reply.
Peer review
Our Publishing Support website provides more information on our reviewing process.
If an article is not accepted for publication, we may offer the author the opportunity to transfer their submission to other suitable journals we publish. This process is explained in more detail on our Publishing Support website.
Inclusivity and diversity
IOP Publishing recognises that there are inequalities within the scientific publishing and research ecosystems. We are committed to a progressive approach to inclusivity and diversity, and are working hard to eliminate discrimination to foster an equitable and welcoming publishing environment for all.
IOP Publishing follows Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication to ensure that journal articles use bias-free and culturally sensitive communication. We ask authors to please follow these guidelines in their manuscript submissions.
More information about our work on inclusivity is available on our Open Physics hub.
Ethics
Research data
Please note that this policy requires authors to include a data availability statement in their article.
For any questions about the policy please contact the journal.
Many research funders now require authors to make all data related to their research available in an online repository. Please refer to the policy for further information about research data, data repositories and data citation.
Open access
Flexible and Printed Electronics is a hybrid open access journal. Authors have the option to pay an article publication charge (APC) to publish their article on a gold open access basis under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. Articles published on a gold open access basis are freely available to everyone to read and reuse immediately upon publication, provided the terms of the licence are followed and clear attribution to the author is given. The APC for Flexible and Printed Electronics can be found on the Publication charges page.
Researchers with affiliations at member institutions of the OE-A will be entitled to a discount of 15% off the open access APC for the journal, should they wish to publish their article on a gold open access basis. The researchers must expressly claim this discount during the article submission process. A list of member organisations is available.
Alternatively authors who do not select the gold open access option can choose a green open access route to publication.
For more information on IOP Publishing’s open access policies please see our Open access page. For our author rights policies please see our Author rights page.
Publication charges
Publication on a subscription-access basis is free of charge.
Authors have the option to pay the following article publication charge (APC) to publish their article on an open access basis under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.
| GBP | EUR | USD | |
| Article publication charge* | £2230 | €2560 | $3075 |
| Reduced article publication charge* for Group B countries** | £500 | €575 | $675 |
| Reduced article publication charge for Group A countries** | £0 | €0 | $0 |
*excluding VAT where applicable
**eligibility criteria can be found here
APCs only apply to articles accepted for publication; there are no submission charges.
There are no other charges for publishing in Flexible and Printed Electronics.
Transformative Agreements
Flexible and Printed Electronics is included in our transformative agreements which allow authors from some institutions to publish open access without paying an APC.
Find out if you’re covered by an agreement
If you are covered by an agreement, use our author guide to help you submit your paper.
Countries where we have transformative agreements include:
Austria, Canada, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Paying for open access
There are no other charges for publishing in Flexible and Printed Electronics.
Researchers with affiliations at member institutions of the OE-A will be entitled to a discount of 15% off the open access APC for the journal, should they wish to publish their article on a gold open access basis. The researchers must expressly claim this discount during the article submission process. A list of member organisations is available.
Various other discounts, waivers and funding arrangements are available to support authors. Visit our Paying for open access page to find out whether you qualify.
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