Light: Advanced Manufacturing

Aims & Scope

Light: Advanced Manufacturing LAM is a new, highly selective, open-access, and free of charge international sister journal of the Nature Journal Light: Science & Applications.

The journal is aimed to publish innovative research in all modern areas of preferred light-based manufacturing, including fundamental and applied research as well as industrial innovations.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Engineering, Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Engineering, Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Recent Progress in Heterogeneous III-V-on-Silicon Photonic Integration

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Di, John E.

• Metasurfaces for manipulating terahertz waves

  Citation: 106

  Authors: Xiaofei, Bingshuang, Lin, Jingya, Xuguang, Alexei V., Alexander P., Songlin

• Design and manufacture AR head-mounted displays: A review and outlook

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Dewen, Qiwei, Yue, Hailong, Dongwei, Ximeng, Cheng, Qichao, Weihong, Gang, Yongtian

• Holography, and the future of 3D display

  Citation: 71

  Authors: Pierre-Alexandre

• Review of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) fabricated Ti-6Al-4V: process, post-process treatment, microstructure, and property

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Sheng, Yichao, Chao Voon Samuel, Xinhua

• Multi-material multi-photon 3D laser micro- and nanoprinting

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Liang, Frederik, Uwe H. F., Eva, Martin

• 3D-printed miniature spectrometer for the visible range with a 100 × 100 μm<sup>2</sup> footprint

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Andrea, Johannes, Simon, Harald, Alois

• A review of common-path off-axis digital holography: towards high stable optical instrument manufacturing

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Jiwei, Siqing, Chaojie, Teli, Jianglei, Jianlin

• 3D printed micro-optics for quantum technology: Optimised coupling of single quantum dot emission into a single-mode fibre

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Marc, Ksenia, Simon, Lucas, Sarah, Thomas, Sascha, Michael, Stephan, Alois, Peter, Simone Luca, Harald

• Review of geometric error measurement and compensation techniques of ultra-precision machine tools

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Zongchao, Zhen, Xiangqian