At the heart of the peer review process are reviewers. These researchers unselfishly donate their time and attention to review manuscripts. Their work is what makes the peer review system succeed and scholarly journals possible. The editors and publisher of Applied Physics Letters thank all of our reviewers for their conscientious work on behalf of the journal.
We further offer special thanks to the following researchers who have been identified as Applied Physics Letters' top reviewers for 2017. These individuals each reviewed multiple papers for APL, and our editors found their reviews to be consistently thorough and discerning.
M H Ansari, University at Buffalo, USA
Seth Bank, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Renato Buzio, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Bing-Yang Cao, Tsinghua University, China
Sonal Dey, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA
Zhenxing Feng, Oregon State University, USA
Xiaojun Hu, Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Yuan Huang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Wanjun Jiang, Tsinghua University, China
Janesh Kaushik, Solid State Physics Laboratory, India
Yong-Chang Lau, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Emil List-Kratochvil, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Guanxiong Liu, University of California, Riverside, USA
Eric Yue Ma, Stanford University, USA
Takahiro Mise, Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Japan
John Robertson, University of Cambridge, UK
Kechao Tang, Stanford University, USA
Zhiyong Wang, University of California, Riverside, USA
You Zhou, Harvard University, USA
Taishan Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA