Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352) is an open access journal that covers all aspects of crystalline material research. Crystals provides a forum for the advancement of our understanding of the nucleation, growth, processing, and characterization of crystalline and liquid crystalline materials. Their mechanical, chemical, electronic, magnetic, and optical properties, and their diverse applications, are all considered to be of importance. Additionally, we encourage contributors to send articles focused on crystals research (of small and high molecular weight). Their characterization by using modern techniques for crystal growth and high resolution characterization such as synchrotron radiation and modern methods for the growth of crystals for X-ray free electron lasers (XFELS) would also be welcome.Crystals can be used as a reference and publication source for the crystalline research community. Crystals publishes reviews, regular research articles and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental, theoretical and computational results in as much detail as possible so that results can be reproduced. Therefore, there is no restriction on article length.Subject AreasAll classes of crystalline materials, either in bulk or as thin films, such as:semiconductorsmagnetic systemssuperconductorsgraphenephotonic crystalspiezoelectric crystalsferroelectric crystalsoptical crystals, including nonlinear and laser crystalsscintillating crystalsperiodic metamaterialsminerals and biomineralsmetalssaltsliquid crystalsbiomoleculessmall organic molecules, including drugscocrystalsmesocrystalsCrystal growth techniques include, but are not limited to:conventional crystal growth, including Bridgman, Czochralski, top seeding, solid state conversion, high temperature flux methodsmolecular beam, chemical beam, and vapor phase epitaxydesign and processing of photonic crystals and metamaterialsnon-classical growth by particle attachment and fusionCharacterization techniques, such as:X-ray diffractionphotoluminescenceelectron microscopy and diffractionneutron diffractionfree electron lasersscanning probe microscopycarrier transportmagnetic property measurementsRutherford backscatteringellipsometryAFM/PFMProperty characterizations, including but not limited to optical, magnetic, electronic, etc.Fundamental research into:solid-state physics and chemistrycrystalline surfacescrystalline structurecrystalline interfacecrystallization mechanisms, including liquid and amorphous precursor phases as well as clustersTopics not suitable for Crystals:Use of single crystal structural analysis for the sole characterization of molecular structures besides other techniques without a clear focus on the crystalline structure and its properties.

晶體（ISSN2073-4352）是一本開放的期刊，涵蓋了晶體材料研究的各個(gè)方面。晶體為增進(jìn)我們對(duì)晶體和液晶材料的形核、生長(zhǎng)、加工和表征的理解提供了一個(gè)論壇。它們的機(jī)械、化學(xué)、電子、磁性和光學(xué)特性，以及它們的各種應(yīng)用，都被認(rèn)為是重要的。此外，我們鼓勵(lì)撰稿人發(fā)表有關(guān)晶體研究（小分子量和高分子量）的文章。利用現(xiàn)代晶體生長(zhǎng)技術(shù)和高分辨率表征（如同步輻射）以及現(xiàn)代無X射線電子激光器（xfels）晶體生長(zhǎng)方法對(duì)其進(jìn)行表征也將受到歡迎。晶體可作為晶體研究界的參考和出版物來源。晶體發(fā)表評(píng)論、定期研究文章和簡(jiǎn)短的交流。我們的目標(biāo)是鼓勵(lì)科學(xué)家盡可能詳細(xì)地公布他們的實(shí)驗(yàn)、理論和計(jì)算結(jié)果，以便能夠重現(xiàn)結(jié)果。因此，對(duì)文章長(zhǎng)度沒有限制。學(xué)科領(lǐng)域所有種類的晶體材料，無論是散裝的還是薄膜的，例如：半導(dǎo)體磁系統(tǒng)超導(dǎo)體石墨烯光子晶體壓電晶體鐵電晶體光學(xué)晶體，包括非線性和激光晶體閃爍晶體周期性超材料礦物和生物礦物金屬鹽類液晶生物分子小有機(jī)分子，包括藥物共晶體介觀晶體晶體生長(zhǎng)技術(shù)包括但不限于：常規(guī)晶體生長(zhǎng)，包括Bridgman、Czochralski、頂部播種、固態(tài)轉(zhuǎn)化、高溫通量法分子束、化學(xué)束和汽相外延光子晶體和超材料的設(shè)計(jì)與加工通過粒子附著和融合的非經(jīng)典生長(zhǎng)特征化技術(shù)，如：X射線衍射光致發(fā)光電子顯微鏡和衍射中子衍射自由電子激光器掃描探針顯微鏡承運(yùn)人運(yùn)輸磁性測(cè)量盧瑟福后向散射橢偏法AFM/PFM性能表征，包括但不限于光學(xué)、磁性、電子等。基礎(chǔ)研究：固態(tài)物理化學(xué)晶體表面晶體結(jié)構(gòu)結(jié)晶界面結(jié)晶機(jī)制，包括液態(tài)和非晶態(tài)前體相以及團(tuán)簇不適用于水晶的主題：除其他技術(shù)外，使用單晶結(jié)構(gòu)分析來唯一表征分子結(jié)構(gòu)，而不清楚晶體結(jié)構(gòu)及其性質(zhì)。