Preface / Editorial

International Conference on Solid State Physics (ICSSP’13) was held during December 1-6, 2013 at University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. A total number of 227 papers were accepted for the conference, with 152 oral presentations. Out of these 227 papers, 131 are being published here as Materials Today: Proceedings after a careful review by the technical committee of the conference.