Papers can be presented orally and by poster. Both are considered of equal standing. Kindly indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation when submitting your abstract. All abstracts will be published in the RSCy2026 abstract proceedings that will be distributed at the conference.
All authors can participate in the conference by submitting an abstract and/ or a full paper. For delegates who wish to publish a full paper in the SPIE conference proceedings, the main author or the contact author need to provide proof of paid registration and to present their paper as an oral presentation or display a poster during the conference. Authors with full registration can submit 1 full manuscript to be published in the RSCy2026 SPIE conference proceedings which will be submitted to Scopus for indexing, following peer review and acceptance. When registering through the online conference registration, please indicate if more than one manuscript will be submitted.
The Conference Proceedings will be published by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, after peer review and acceptance.