About Lights

Aims

Lights (ISSN 3042-7886) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing our understanding and application of optics, especially in relation to harnessing light and associated technologies. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive platform for researchers to exchange ideas, share discoveries, and progress in these exciting research fields.

Acceptable paper types include reviews, regular research papers, and communications. We aim to encourage scientists to publish their experimental, numerical, and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no maximum length restriction on papers. Full experimental details must be provided to ensure that results are reproducible. For numerical simulations, an accurate description of methods and mesh sensitivity is mandatory.

Scope

• Light generation;
• Light sources and applications;
• Light control and measurement;
• Human responses to light;
• Lighting design;
• Daylighting, energy efficiency and sustainability;
• Light pollution research;
• Synthesis and characterization of luminescent materials;
• Applications of luminescent materials;
• New technologies for the fabrication of optical materials;
• Optical functional materials;
• Imaging and sensing of optical materials;
• Vision and imaging technologies;
• Light-emitting diodes and laser sources;
• Artificial light;
• Quantum light;
• Use of AI technologies for light harvesting.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Lights will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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Editorial Office

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