Thin Solid Films

Thin Solid Films is an Elsevier journal for scientists and engineers working on the synthesis, characterization, modelling and application of condensed-matter films, a field it has covered since 1967.《固体薄膜》是 Elsevier 旗下期刊，读者面向凝聚态薄膜的合成、表征与建模人员，也面向器件应用一侧的工程师，1967 年创刊后一直覆盖这一领域。

Twelve volumes appear each year without issue numbers, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor stands at 2.4, with all four of its Journal Citation Reports categories placed in the third quartile.该刊每年出版十二卷且不设期号，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，在期刊引证报告的四个类目中均列第三四分位。

Scope

• The aims define thin films as the confluence of materials science, surface science and applied physics, a union the editors treat as one identifiable discipline in its own right.办刊说明把薄膜看作材料科学与表面科学在应用物理中的交汇处，并将其视为一门独立的学科。
• Synthesis heads the topic list, and control of growth is singled out because film properties follow from how a deposit nucleates, coalesces and thickens on a given substrate.合成列在选题首位，生长控制被单独强调，因为膜的性质取决于沉积物如何在给定衬底上成核、汇聚与增厚。
• Surfaces and interfaces form a heading of their own, covering adsorption, interdiffusion, band alignment and the adhesion that decides whether a coating survives service in a real component.表面与界面单列一类，涵盖吸附、互扩散与能带对齐，也涵盖决定涂层能否在真实部件中存留的附着力。
• Solar energy conversion is named outright, an entry that keeps photovoltaic absorbers, window layers and transparent contacts inside the remit rather than at the edge of the field.太阳能转换被直接点名，光伏吸收层、窗口层与透明接触层因此留在收录范围之内，而不在领域边缘。
• Catalysis appears in the same list, since deposited metals, oxides and sulfides serve as model surfaces where activity and selectivity can be tested on a defined structure.催化同在这一列，沉积的金属与氧化物可作为模型表面，活性与选择性得以在确定的组织结构上检验。
• Batteries and other electrochemical devices extend the scope to electrodes, solid electrolytes and protective interlayers, a body of work judged on long-term cycling as much as on structure.电池与其他电化学器件把范围延伸到电极、固体电解质与保护中间层，这类工作既看结构，也看长时循环表现。
• Metallurgical, protective and hard coatings carry the journal's oldest industrial readership, covering wear resistance, corrosion barriers, adhesion and the residual stress that governs coating failure in service.冶金涂层、防护涂层与硬质涂层承载着刊物最老的工业读者群，涉及耐磨、防腐与决定服役失效的残余应力。
• Electronics, optics and opto-electronics take in dielectrics, transparent conductors, waveguide layers and the emissive stacks behind displays, areas where a few nanometres decide how a device behaves.电子学、光学与光电子学收录介电层、透明导电层与显示器件背后的发光叠层，在这些地方几纳米的偏差就决定器件行为。
• Magnetics and magneto-optics keep recording media, spin valves and magnetostrictive films in view, topics where interfacial roughness sets coercivity and the Kerr response measured at the surface.磁学与磁光学关注记录介质、自旋阀与磁致伸缩薄膜，界面粗糙度在这些体系里决定矫顽力与表面克尔响应。
• Superconductivity closes the list, and the entry accepts cuprate as well as low-temperature films, with deposition temperature and oxygen content treated as first-order variables in every report.超导排在末位，铜氧化物与低温超导薄膜都在其内，沉积温度与氧含量在每篇报告里都被当作首要变量。
• A note to authors states that contributions must concern films and their potential uses, which keeps purely bulk metallurgy and unrelated surface chemistry out of the queue.投稿须知写明稿件必须围绕薄膜及其潜在用途，纯块体冶金与无关的表面化学因此不在收稿之列。
• Film synthesis has to be described in enough detail for another laboratory to repeat it, and the note asks for the reproducibility of results to be stated rather than assumed.薄膜合成过程要写到另一间实验室可以复现的程度，投稿须知还要求明确交代结果的可重复性。
• Simulations carry a rule of their own, since computed results are expected to be set against original or published experimental data in the same paper instead of standing alone.计算工作另有一条规矩，模拟结果要与自测数据或已发表数据对照，不能独立成篇。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in July 1967 under the Elsevier Sequoia imprint of Lausanne, and that Swiss house printed the early volumes before the title passed to Elsevier's Amsterdam-based imprint.第 1 卷于 1967 年 7 月问世，署名为洛桑的 Elsevier Sequoia，早期各卷由这家瑞士机构印制，后来刊物转到阿姆斯特丹的 Elsevier B.V. 名下。
• The launch year had its own logic, since vacuum deposition had become an industrial practice in optics, microelectronics and metallurgy, and a journal about the deposit itself had no home then.创刊时间选在这一年有其背景，真空沉积当时已在光学、微电子与冶金中成为工业实践，专门讨论沉积层本身的刊物因此有了需要。
• Volume numbering has run without a break since then, and the count of volumes per year rose as the field grew, reaching twelve annually in recent years.卷号自那时起连续不断，每年卷数随领域扩张而增加，近年固定为十二卷。
• Twelve volumes a year means the volume is the unit of publication and no issue numbers are printed, so a paper is cited by volume and article number.每年十二卷意味着卷就是出版单元，刊物不再印期号，引用时只写卷号与文章编号。
• In 2025 papers appeared across volumes 809 to 820, and the four-digit article number has replaced the page range, so the pagination of a volume no longer tells a reader where a paper sits.2025 年的文章分布在第 809 至 820 卷，四位文章编号取代了页码，卷内排页已不再指示一篇论文的位置。
• Output has thinned rather than broadened, with roughly 260 articles recorded in 2022 against about 156 in 2025, while the page budget per volume stayed broadly the same across that span.发文量趋于收缩，2022 年记录约 260 篇，2025 年约 156 篇，同期每卷的篇幅大体未变。
• The impact factor moved from 2.358 in 2022 to 2.0 in both 2023 and 2024, then back to 2.4 in 2025, a flat stretch that leaves the five-year average at 2.1 and the Journal Citation Indicator at 0.4.影响因子在 2022 年为 2.358，2023 年与 2024 年都是 2.0，2025 年回到 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.1，期刊引文指标为 0.4。
• The 2025 report places it at 15 of 25 in coatings and films, 326 of 472 in multidisciplinary materials science, 123 of 191 in applied physics and 47 of 81 in condensed matter, four third-quartile positions in a row.2025 年报告把它排在膜类第 15 位（共 25 种），综合材料科学第 326 位（共 472 种），应用物理第 123 位（共 191 种），凝聚态物理第 47 位（共 81 种），四个类目同处第三四分位。
• Total citations stand near 30,785 with a cited half-life of 15.6 years, a long tail that reflects how often older deposition studies are still consulted for specific process detail.总被引接近 30785 次，被引半衰期 15.6 年，这条长尾说明早年的沉积研究仍常被查来核对工艺细节。
• Gold open access accounts for 16.02 percent of recent papers, which fits a hybrid title where the subscription route remains the default choice for most corresponding authors in practice.金色开放获取占近年论文的 16.02%，这与一份混合型刊物的定位相符，多数通讯作者仍走订阅路径。
• Indexing has been continuous rather than piecemeal, with Science Citation Index coverage from the early volumes and later entries in Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, Engineering Index and Inspec.收录一直连续，早期各卷即进入科学引文索引，此后又陆续进入 Scopus 与 Chemical Abstracts，以及 Engineering Index 和 Inspec。
• The title has never been changed and the JCR abbreviation has stayed THIN SOLID FILMS, a continuity unusual for a materials journal of that age and size.刊名从未改动，期刊引证报告的缩写一直是 THIN SOLID FILMS，这种连续性在同龄同规模的材料类刊物里少见。
• J. E. Greene has held the editor-in-chief post for decades, giving the journal a single editorial voice across years when thin-film growth studies moved from evaporation to sputtering and ion assistance.J. E. Greene 长期担任主编，为刊物保持了一条连续的编辑主线，薄膜生长研究在此期间从蒸镀转向溅射与离子辅助。
• The 2026 volumes run from 833 to 844, so the twelve-volume cadence has held for several years and now looks settled rather than provisional, with no issue numbers in sight.2026 年的卷号为 833 至 844，每卷无期号的十二卷节奏已连续多年，看上去已经定形，不像过渡安排。

Editors

• J. E. Greene, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, holds the editor-in-chief position and has worked for decades on thin-film growth by physical vapour deposition.J. E. Greene 是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign）教授，担任主编，长期研究物理气相沉积下的薄膜生长。
• Five associate editors share the handling load, sitting in Berlin and Cambridge along with Montréal, Colorado and Hong Kong, a spread that covers Europe, North America and East Asia.另有五名副编辑分担处理，驻地分散在柏林与剑桥，以及蒙特利尔、科罗拉多和香港，这支小团队覆盖欧洲与北美以及东亚。
• D. Abou-Ras, based in Berlin, is the associate editor closest to photovoltaic work, where grain structure and interface chemistry decide how a thin absorber layer performs in a finished module.D. Abou-Ras 驻柏林，是几位副编辑中离光伏最近的一位，晶粒结构与界面化学在此决定吸收层在成品组件中的表现。
• Z. H. Barber in Cambridge handles surface and interface papers, including the adhesion and interdiffusion studies that the journal has carried without a break since its earliest printed volumes.Z. H. Barber 在剑桥负责表面与界面类稿件，其中包含刊物自早期卷册起就一直刊登的附着与互扩散研究。
• P. Desjardins in Montréal looks after semiconductor and oxide film growth, a remit that carries sputtering, epitaxy and the in-situ diagnostics used to close the loop on a deposition chamber.P. Desjardins 在蒙特利尔分管半导体与氧化物薄膜生长，溅射、外延以及沉积腔内的原位诊断都在这条线上。
• T. A. Gessert, working from Colorado, takes the optoelectronic and transparent-conductor side, a field where contact resistance and stability limit what a finished device can promise in service.T. A. Gessert 在科罗拉多任事，负责光电子与透明导电一侧，接触电阻与稳定性在此限定了成品器件能承诺的指标。
• C. S. Lee in Hong Kong covers organic and emissive films, where molecular orientation and interface dipoles matter as much as the bulk composition of the layer.C. S. Lee 在香港负责有机与发光薄膜，分子取向与界面偶极在这里与层的体相组成同样要紧。
• Manuscripts enter through the Editorial Manager site, each is assigned to one editor at the outset, and that editor carries the paper through refereeing to a decision letter.稿件从 Editorial Manager 系统进入，开局即分配给一位编辑，此后由他一路带到审稿结束并签出决定信。
• Referee identities are withheld from authors, two reports are usual before a first decision, and a third opinion is sought when the two disagree on something fundamental.审稿人身份不向作者披露，首次决定前通常要有两份意见，两份意见在根本问题上相左时再找第三位。
• The note to authors sets out the journal's own requirements, so deposition conditions, substrate preparation and the measurements behind every claimed property have to be in the manuscript.投稿须知单列了本刊自己的要求，沉积条件、衬底准备以及支撑每项性能声明的测量都必须写进稿中。
• A paper that reports a new film without a growth recipe or a statement of repeatability is incomplete by the journal's own standard, whatever its physical interest.按本刊自己的标准，只报一种新薄膜却不给生长配方或不交代可重复性的稿件，无论物理上多有意思，都算不完整。
• The same holds for computation, where a simulation that is not benchmarked against measured or previously published data has little standing on its own, however elegant the model.计算工作同理，模拟若没有与实测数据或已发表数据对照，无论模型多精巧，本身都站不住。
• Work that is not about a film at all, or that treats a film only as a passive substrate, is turned away at the editorial desk without refereeing.完全不涉及薄膜，或只把薄膜当作惰性衬底的稿件，在编辑初审阶段即被退回，不进入外审。