Call for Papers
Announcing an Issue of the IEEE
JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS onPhotonics for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
Hard Copy Publication: November/December 2025
The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (JSTQE) invites manuscript submissions in Photonics for Climate Change
Mitigation and Adaptation. Climate change poses one of the most complex and far-reaching challenges for humankind this century. From
increased temperatures and extreme heatwaves, to ocean acidification, desertification and increased water scarcity, the broad scope of climaterelated impacts we face. Driven, as climate change is, by carbon emissions, significant research efforts have yielded fruitful progress in enabling
new, low-carbon approaches to a broad range of energy, water and manufacturing technologies. The extraordinary and unprecedented scaleupin global photovoltaics deployment, for example, is making many ambitious clean energy targets potentially within reach. Beyond mitigation
however, there is now increasing recognition that even with the most aggressive decarbonization goals, global temperatures will still rise, andweather patterns will become more extreme. Adaptation has thus emerged as an important guiding framework for developing capabilities thatwill allow peoples and economies to flourish, even as our planet warms.
Optics and photonics have a unique role to play in tackling both climate change mitigation as well as adaptation. Next-generation opticalsensors are making precise measurements of atmospheric gases possible, even in ultra-compact form factors, a crucial capability for ubiquitous
monitoring of carbon emissions. While conventional Silicon-based photovoltaics is a mature platform, there remains substantial opportunities forfurther improving efficiency of PV systems. From an optics perspective this includes novel techniques and material systems such as up-conversion
and quantum dots, as well as through improved light trapping and thermal management. Beyond clean energy generation and emissions
monitoring and reduction, concepts from optics also have an important role to play in adaptation. Recent advances in radiative cooling, driven by
optical material control of both solar absorption and thermal emission, herald the possibility of making buildings and the broader environment
more resilient in the face of extreme heat. More broadly, controlling infrared thermal emission remains a comparatively underexplored strategy
for better controlling the important radiative flows of heat that surround both buildings and humans every day.
The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics invites manuscript submissions that together capture a broad rangeof contemporary research on advances in optics as they pertain to both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Areas of interest include(but are not limited to):-Optics for solar energy-Photovoltaic thermal management-

Solar fuels-

Radiative cooling and thermoregulation of buildings and the environment-

Thermophotovoltaics-

Thermal photonics for water-energy nexus-Photonic sensing for climate change research-Light-emitting diodes-

Dynamic optical materials

The Primary Guest Editor for this issue is Prof. Aaswath P. Raman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. The Guest Editors are: Prof.
Susanna Thon, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Prof. Jyotirmoy Mandal, Princeton University, USA; Prof. Baohua Jia, RMIT University,Australia.
JSTQE will begin accepting submissions for this special issue on August 1, 2024. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is February 1,2025. Hardcopy publication of the issue is scheduled for November/December 2025.

Unedited preprints of accepted manuscripts are normally posted online on IEEE Xplore within 1 week of the final files being uploaded by theauthor(s). Posted preprints have digital object identifiers (DOIs) assigned to them and are fully citable. Once available, the preprints are replacedby final copy-edited and XML-tagged versions of manuscripts on IEEE Xplore. This usually occurs well before the hardcopy publication date. These
final versions have article numbers assigned to them to accelerate the online publication; the same article numbers are used for the print versionsof JSTQE.
For inquiries, please contact:
IEEE Photonics Society JSTQE Editorial Office – Alexandra Johnson (Email: johnson.a@ieee.org)
Paper submission via IEEE Author Portal: https://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/jstqe-pho1)

PDF or MS Word manuscript (double column format, up to 12 pages for an invited paper, up to 8 pages for a contributed paper).
Manuscripts over the standard page limit will have an overlength charge of $220.00 per page imposed. Biographies of all authors aremandatory, photographs are optional. See the Tools for Authors link: www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.

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JSTQE uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts and previously
published papers. Authors should ensure that relevant previously published papers are cited and that instances of similarity are justified
by clearly stating the distinction between a submitted paper and previous publications.