Manuscript (full paper)

Submission of manuscript is now open! Access it now from your Author Page.

The deadline for submittimng your manuscript is the 20th of June.

Submitted manuscripts will be included in the conference proceeding (CD-ROM). Additionally, after the conference, the manuscript presented at Thin Films 2008 will undergo normal stringent peer review process and selected papers will be published as a special issue in Thin Solid Films (TSF) and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (JNN).

Instructions for authors

At the time of submission of their manuscript (full paper) the author will have to decide to which journal (TSF and JNN) they want to submit and format their paper accordingly.

For publication in Thin Solid Films (TSF), please prepare your manuscript according to standard Author Guide.

For publication in the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (JNN) please refer to the JNN homepage.
JNN Example
JNN Graphic abstract example

As noted above, for both special issue, submission should be made online to Thin Films 2008, not to the journal editors.

Length requirement of the full paper

For contributed papers, 4 to 5 journal printed pages; for Keynotes and Invited paper: maximum 6 journal printed pages. "Journal Printed Page" does not equal to the "you-printed-page". Please click here for estimation of length of the paper. (An example is given in the excel file; change the blue number results change in the total number of word estimation). Though the estimation is illustrated for Thin Solid Film, roughly this should be okay as a guideline for most journals.

Track Record : Previous proceedings

Thin Films 2002 --- Surface and Coatings Technology, 167 (2-3) 2003
Thin Films 2004 --- Surface and Coatings Technology, 198 (1-3) 2005
Thin Films 2006 --- Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (JNN), 2007, in press and Thin solid Films, 2007, in press

To Come : Selected papers from Thin Films 2008 to appear in a special issue of

--- Thin Solid Films (TSF) and
--- Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (JNN)