--- name: nature-electronics description: Use when targeting Nature Electronics or deciding whether an electronic-devices / circuits / systems manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the Nature-style significance and field-advancing bar, device-and-system measurement rigor, house style, the device-vs-materials-vs-systems routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. --- # Nature Electronics (nature-electronics) ## Journal positioning Nature Electronics is the Nature Portfolio journal covering the science and engineering of electronics — from materials-level device physics through circuits to integrated systems and their applications. It selects for **broad significance and a field-advancing result** framed in the Nature style: a conceptual breakthrough, a new device or material with a clear performance or functional leap, or a system that demonstrates a genuinely new capability. An incremental device that improves a metric without a conceptual or capability advance, or a process tweak with no broader consequence, is a poor fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Nature Electronics submission guidelines on the Nature Portfolio site. ## When to trigger - The author names Nature Electronics for an electronic-devices, circuits, or systems result and wants a fit/framing and significance check. - A device or systems result must be re-framed from a metric-improvement report into a Nature-style, field-advancing significance narrative. - The author is choosing between Nature Electronics and `nature-materials` / `nature-communications`, or an IEEE device/circuits transactions venue. - The author needs Nature Electronics' significance bar and its desk-reject heuristics. ## Scope & topic fit - Device physics and emerging devices: transistors, memristors, 2D-material and organic/flexible electronics, spintronic and neuromorphic devices, when a new mechanism or capability is shown. - Integrated circuits and computing hardware: low-power, in-memory, analog, and domain-specific architectures with a demonstrated, broadly significant advance. - Sensors, flexible/wearable and bioelectronic systems where a new device concept enables a capability not previously achievable. - Power, RF, photonic-electronic, and quantum-electronic devices and systems with a field-moving result rather than parameter optimization. - Fabrication and integration advances (heterogeneous integration, new process schemes) when they unlock new device or system function, not just yield. - System-level demonstrations that bridge from device physics to a working integrated capability with measured performance. ## Method & evidence bar - The contribution must carry an explicit **significance argument**: what is conceptually or functionally new and why it advances electronics broadly. - Device and system metrics must be quantitative and rigorously measured: report conditions, statistics across multiple devices, variability/yield where relevant, and uncertainty — not a single best-device datapoint. - Performance and capability claims must be benchmarked against the current state of the art under comparable, clearly stated conditions. - Reliability, stability, and scalability/manufacturability should be addressed honestly where they bear on the claimed advance, not deferred entirely. - Theory, modeling, and simulation must be tied to measured devices or make tested predictions; simulation-only device claims rarely clear the bar. - Reproducibility and reporting follow Nature-Portfolio expectations: methods, data availability, and statistics sufficient to reproduce key results. ## Structure & house style - Nature-Portfolio article structure with a significance-forward abstract and introduction; re-check current article types and length/format on the live guide. - The introduction establishes the broad-significance gap and the stakes for electronics before the technical development, in accessible language. - Main display items are curated and load-bearing: device characteristics with statistics, benchmark comparisons, and clear schematics of the device/system concept. - Methods and extended/supplementary material carry full fabrication, measurement, and device-statistics detail; the main narrative must stand on the headline figures. - Multi-device statistics and variability data are expected in support, not optional afterthoughts. ## Official-submission checklist - Before giving submission-ready advice, read `../../resources/source-basis.md` and `../../resources/official-source-map.md`; start from the Nature-Portfolio anchors, then cite the current Nature Electronics guidelines page you checked. - Search the live site for "Nature Electronics submission guidelines" and follow the current Nature-Portfolio submission system. - Re-check article types (Article, Letter/short formats), length/format expectations, and the abstract requirements. - Confirm data-availability, code-availability, and reporting-summary requirements of Nature Portfolio. - Re-check open-access options, ORCID, competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure requirements. - If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win. ## Pre-submission self-check - [ ] The abstract/introduction states the broad significance and the field-advancing claim in Nature style. - [ ] The advance is conceptual or capability-level, not an incremental metric improvement. - [ ] Device/system metrics include multi-device statistics, variability, and uncertainty — not a single best device. - [ ] Performance is benchmarked against the state of the art under comparable conditions. - [ ] Reliability/scalability/manufacturability are addressed where they bear on the claim. - [ ] Any theory/simulation is anchored to measured devices or makes a tested prediction. ## Common desk-reject triggers - Incremental device with a metric improvement but no conceptual or capability leap. - Single best-device result with no multi-device statistics or variability data. - Performance claims not benchmarked, or compared to a weak/non-comparable reference. - Process or fabrication tweak with improved yield but no new device/system function. - Simulation-only device claim with no fabricated, measured device. - Specialty-scoped engineering result better suited to a focused device/circuits journal. ## Re-routing decision - Advance driven primarily by a new electronic material → `nature-materials` / `advanced-materials`. - Broad cross-disciplinary significance beyond electronics → `nature-communications` / `science-advances`. - Photonic-electronic or integrated-photonics emphasis → `nature-photonics` / `light-science-and-applications` / `optica`. - Specialty device, circuit, or process result → an IEEE device/circuits/electron-devices transactions venue. - Bioelectronic system with biomedical significance and validation → `nature-biomedical-engineering`. ## Output format ```text [Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason) [Target] Nature Electronics [Topic tags] <2–3 closest device/circuit/system subtopics> [Significance statement] [Method/evidence] [Top risk] [Official items to re-check]
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