Advances in Inelastic Light Scattering Spectroscopies – Now Open for Submissions!

Submit to this Special Topic today View in Browser SUBMIT AN ARTICLE MANAGE MY ALERTS ABOUT THE JOURNAL Applied Physics Letters Call for Papers Special Topic: Advances in Inelastic Light Scattering Spectroscopies Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025 LEARN MORE > Inelastic light scattering spectroscopies probe the properties of materials by analyzing changes in the energies and momenta of incident and scattered light resulting from interactions with excitations within the material such as phonons and magnons. These techniques provide information about the material's vibrational, rotational, magnetic, or electronic states.  Optical techniques like Raman and Brillouin–Mandelstam spectroscopies have become essential tools for understanding phonons, magnons, and other elemental excitations in 1D and 2D van der Waals materials, magnetic materials, phononic metamaterials, thin films, polymers, and biological samples. Recent variations of the Raman optothermal method, originally proposed for graphene, have further expanded the capabilities of Raman spectroscopy enabling measurements of thermal conductivity and interface conduction in nanostructures and low-dimensional materials. Near-field optical techniques such as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy can detect quasi-particles with spatial resolution beyond the optical diffraction limit. Emerging ultrafast inelastic scattering techniques allow researchers to investigate the dynamics of material excitations by tracking the time evolution of excitations in real time. These techniques, with their high spatial resolution and broad energy-detection range, are suitable for studying emerging quantum materials which often exist in small amounts and sizes. In this Special Topic, we invite researchers to submit original articles exploring recent advancements in inelastic light scattering spectroscopies and their applications in applied physics and materials science research. Guest Editors: Fariborz Kargar, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Marcos A. Pimenta Tell Us What You Think! Did you like this email? Yes > No >  Follow us on social media Copyright © 2025 AIP Publishing. All rights reserved. 1305 Walt Whitman Rd., Melville, NY 11747 You are receiving this email because you have opted-in to receive alerts from us. To guarantee delivery of this email please add journals@aip-info.org to your address book and safe senders list. If you no longer wish to receive emails from us then please unsubscribe or amend your settings.