physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters was designed to offer extremely fast publication times and is currently one of the fastest double peer-reviewed publication media in solid state and materials physics. Average times are 11 days from submission to first editorial decision, and 12 days from acceptance to online publication. It communicates important findings with a high degree of novelty and need for express publication, as well as other results of immediate interest to the solid-state physics and materials science community. Published Letters require approval by at least two independent reviewers.

The journal covers topics such as preparation, structure and simulation of advanced materials, theoretical and experimental investigations of the atomistic and electronic structure, optical, magnetic, superconducting, ferroelectric and other properties of solids, nanostructures and low-dimensional systems as well as device applications. Rapid Research Letters particularly invites papers from interdisciplinary and emerging new areas of research.

The physica status solidi team mourns the loss of Alexander A. Kaminskii (Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), who passed away on October 29th, 2019. Professor Kaminskii maintained a long-standing collaboration with the pss journals, as an author of more than 160 articles between 1965 and 2016 and as an active Editorial Board member since 1987. We are grateful for his deep expertise on laser crystals, his advice, and the good discussions during his visits to the editorial office.
 
 
us    Ernst Bauer, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
us    Martin S. Brandt, Technical University München, Germany
us    Marília J. Caldas, University of São Paulo, Brazil
us    Zexian Cao, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
us    Andres Cuevas, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
us    Peter Deák, University Bremen, Germany
us    David A. Drabold, Ohio University, Athens, USA
us    Wenhui Duan, Tsinghua Univ., China
us    Alexander L. Efros, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, USA
us    Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
us    Elvira Fortunato, University Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
us    Bernard Gil, University Montpellier 2, France
us    Sebastian T. B. Gönnenwein, Tech. Univ. Dresden, Dresden, Germany
us    Nicholas Grandjean, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
us    J. Marty Gregg, Queen's University Belfast, UK
us    Marius Grundmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany
us    Ken Haenen, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
us    Axel Hoffmann, Technical University Berlin, Germany
us    Cheol Seong Hwang, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
us    Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
us    Michio Kondo, National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
us    Chun-Sing Lee, City University of Hong Kong, China
us    Shuit-Tong Lee, Soochow University, China
us    Günther Leising, Technical University Graz, Austria
us    Andrew R. Leitch, The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
us    Zheng Liu, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
us    Anita Lloyd-Spetz, Linköping University, Sweden
us    Annick Loiseau, ONERA, Chatillon, France
us    Gerd O. Müller, GOMMAconsult GmbH, Berlin, Germany
us    Pablo Ordejón, Centre d'Investigacions en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Barcelona, Spain
us    S. N. Piramanayagam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
us    Pedro P. Prieto, University del Valle, Cali, Colombia
us    Uwe Rau, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
us    John Robertson, Cambridge University, UK
us    Ferdinand Scholz, University Ulm, Germany
us    Michael S. Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
us    G. Jeffrey Snyder, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
us    James S. Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
us    Baoquan Sun, Soochow University, China
us    Tadeusz Suski, UNIPRESS, Warsaw, Poland
us    Maria C. Tamargo, City College of New York, USA
us    Christian Thomsen, Technical University Berlin, Germany
us    Hans-Rainer Trebin, University Stuttgart, Germany
us    Sergio E. Ulloa, Ohio University, Athens, USA
us    Xinqiang Wang, Peking Univ., China
us    Rainer Waser, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
us    John I. B. Wilson, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
us    Martin N. Wybourne, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
us    Deren Yang, Zhejiang University, China
us    Wlodzimierz Zawadzki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
us    Di Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
      
us    Alexander A. Kaminskii † deceased Oct 29th 2019, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia