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Title goes here: a capital letter should be used only at the

beginning of the first word, and for proper nouns, scientific and
trade names, and chemical symbols

Richard A. Smith1*, Taro Suzuki2, and Hanako Satoh2,3*

1
Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3
0HE, U.K.
2
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 987-6543, Japan
3
Institute of Materials Research, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 123-4567, Japan

E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract concisely states the objectives and scope of research, and summarizes the results
and principal conclusion gained in your research work. A well-written abstract, together
with the title, enables potential readers to determine whether your paper is interesting and
worth reading in full. Abstracts must be concise, generally presented as one paragraph, and
the length should not exceed 100 words for JJAP papers of Rapid Communications and
Brief Notes. It should not contain display equations. It is not part of the text and should be
complete in itself: no tables, figures, or references should be cited. It must be a single
paragraph.

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There are no sections in Rapid Communications (RC) and Brief Notes (BN) papers. When
preparing your manuscript, please avoid using such words like “new” or “novel” in the
paper. Submission of a paper to APEX/JJAP itself implies the paper contains certain new
materials or novel facts that have not been disclosed before. Therefore, using such words is
redundant. Please claim your new or novel findings in simple, straightforward and
expressive wordings. This is in particular important when organizing the title as well as
abstract. The use of a phrase like “for the first time” should also be avoided because of the
same reason.
The introduction is a critical part of your paper because it introduces the reasons behind
your paper’s existence.1-4) It must state the objectives and scope of your work, present what
problem or question you address, and describe why this is an interesting or important
challenge. It is important to introduce appropriate and sufficient references to prior works
so that readers can understand the context and background of the research and the specific
reason for your research work. Having explored those, the objectives and scope of your
work must be clearly stated. The introduction may explain the approach that is
characteristic to your work, and mention the essence of the conclusion of the paper.5)
The experimental and/or theoretical methods provide sufficient detail of theoretical and
experimental methods and materials used in your research work so that any reader would
be able to repeat your research work and reproduce the results. Be precise, complete and
concise: include only relevant information. For example, provide a reference for a
particular technique instead of describing all the details.6-8)
If you need to use equations, especially display equations, they should be prepared using the
Equation Editor if possible.

( )
∞
nπx nπx
f ( x )=a0 + ∑ an cos + bn sin (1)
n=1 L L

The results present the facts, findings of the study, by effectively using figures and
tables. This part must present the results clearly and logically to highlight potential
implications. Combine the use of text, tables, and figures to digest and condense the data,
and highlight important trends and extract relationships among different data items.
Figures must be well designed, clear, and easy to read. Figure captions should be succinct
yet provide sufficient information to understand the figures without reference to the text.
In the discussion, present your interpretation and conclusions gained from your findings.
You can discuss how your findings compare with other experimental observations or
theoretical expectations. Refer to your characteristic results described in the part of the
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results to support your discussion, since your interpretation and conclusion must be based
on evidence. By properly structuring this discussion, you can show how your results can
solve the current problems and how they relate to the research objectives that you have
described in the part of the introduction. This is your chance to clearly demonstrate the
novelty and importance of your research work.

The part of conclusion summarizes the important results and impact of the research
work. Future work plans may be included if they are beneficial to readers.

Acknowledgments
The acknowledgments is to recognize financial support from funding bodies and scientific
and technical contributions that you have received during your research work.

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References
1) R. Suzuki, K. Beni, P. M. Crozier, and T. Miyanaga, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 53, 011001
(2014).
2) S. M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices (Wiley, New York, 1981) 2nd ed., p. 55.
3) A. Nakazaki, J. Maruyama, T. Kayumi, H. Hamachi, J. Moritani, and S. Hine, Proc. Int.
Symp. Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs, 2000, p.370.
4) T. Takenouchi, Handotai (Semiconductors) (Shokabo, Tokyo, 1964) p.83 [in Japanese].
5) Each reference number should correspond to only one reference. Different papers by the
same authors should be listed separately in the reference list under different numbers
(excluding errata).
6) The term “ibid.” should not be used even if the same journal or book is cited with
different page numbers.
7) The term “et al.” should not be used in the references. List all the authors (with the
exception of software references with a very large number of authors, for which et al.
may be used).
8) Footnotes can be made only for author's present addresses. Any comments or remarks
should be listed in references.

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Figure Captions
Fig. 1. Figures must be complete so that no editing will be required. The list of
figure captions should be provided after the reference list.

Fig. 2. The APEX/JJAP Editorial Board has decided to discontinue the color printing
in the printed version in issue 1 of 2019 onward. All figures except for black/white
will be published online in color. The note “Color online” in figure captions will not
be provided. Printed reprints, if ordered, will be printed in color.

Table I. The following expressions should be used.

At the beginning of a sentence Within a sentence

Section 1 Sect. 1
Section 2 and 3 Sects. 2 and 3

Equation (1) Eq. (1)

Equations (2) and (3) Eqs. (2) and (3)
Equations (4) – (10) 5 Eqs. (4) – (10)

Table I Table I
Tables I and II Tables I and II
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Fig.1.

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Fig. 2.