Journal of Applied Physics: Hot Topics in Applied Physics

 
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Hot Topics in Applied Physics
 
Journal of Applied Physics (JAP) has a long history of publishing the hottest topics in applied physics and is the most cited journal in the applied physics category publishing original, full-length articles.* JAP is also publishing faster than ever and has reduced the publication time of regular articles on average by over 40 days!
 
See the listing below for hot topic areas and articles that range from applied biophysics and magnetism to ferroelectricity and device physics.
 
*2012 Journal Citation Reports ® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)
 
 
Select the Topic Area Below:
 
 
- Biomedical Instrumentation
- Electronic Properties of Quantum Systems
- Ferroelectrics and Ferroics
- Flexible Electronics
- High Energy Density Plasmas

- Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
- Metamaterials
 
- Nanodots
- Photonics
- Photovoltaics
- Spin Waves
- Thermoelectrics
- Terahertz Spectroscopy
 
 
 
Biomedical Instrumentation

Sensing glucose concentrations at GHz frequencies with a fully embedded Biomicro-electromechanical system (BioMEMS)

M. Birkholz, K.-E. Ehwald, T. Basmer, P. Kulse, C. Reich, J. Drews, D. Genschow, U. Haak, S. Marschmeyer, E. Matthus, K. Schulz, D. Wolansky, W. Winkler, T. Guschauski, R. Ehwald
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 244904 (2013)

Non-invasive optoacoustic probing of the density and stiffness of single biological cells

T. Dehoux, B. Audoin
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 124702 (2012)

Effect of in-situ application of ultrasonic waves during formation of silver nanoparticles embedded in phospholipid membrane

Yongdeok Kim, Hyeun Hwan An, Won Bae Han, Hee-Soo Kim, Suk Jun Kim, Chong Seung Yoon
J. Appl. Phys. 114, 144702 (2013)

Electronic Properties of Quantum Systems


Single-particle tunneling in doped graphene-insulator-graphene junctions

R. M. Feenstra, Debdeep Jena, Gong Gu
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 043711 (2012)

Transient electron transport properties of multiple quantum dots systems

E. Taranko, M. Wiertel, R. Taranko
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 023711 (2012)

Temperature dependent surface photovoltage spectra of type I GaAs1−xSbx/GaAs multiple quantum well structures

P. Sitarek, J. Misiewicz, Y. S. Huang, H. P. Hsu, K. K. Tiong
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 073702 (2013)

Ferroelectrics and Ferroics


Influence of electric fields on the depolarization temperature of Mn-doped (1-x)Bi1/2Na1/2TiO3-xBaTiO3

Eva Sapper, Silke Schaab, Wook Jo, Torsten Granzow, Jürgen Rödel
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 014105 (2012)

Electromechanical strain in Bi(Zn1/2Ti1/2)O3–(Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3–(Bi1/2K1/2)TiO3 solid solutions

Eric A. Patterson, David P. Cann, Jan Pokorny, Ian M. Reaney
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 094105 (2012)

Switching of morphotropic phase boundary and large strain response in lead-free ternary (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3–(K0.5Bi0.5)TiO3–(K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 system

Jigong Hao, Bo Shen, Jiwei Zhai, Chunze Liu, Xiaolong Li, Xingyu Gao
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 114106 (2013)

Flexible Electronics


Global and local planarization of surface roughness by chemical vapor deposition of organosilicon polymer for barrier applications

Anna Maria Coclite, Karen K. Gleason
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 073516 (2012)

Bi-layer Al2O3/ZnO atomic layer deposition for controllable conductive coatings on polypropylene nonwoven fiber mats

William J. Sweet, Jesse S. Jur, Gregory N. Parsons
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 194303 (2013)

A converging route towards very high frequency, mechanically flexible, and performance stable integrated electronics

Aurélien Lecavelier des Etangs-Levallois, Zhenkun Chen, Marie Lesecq, Sylvie Lepilliet, Yoann Tagro, François Danneville, Jean-François Robillard, Virginie Hoel, David Troadec, Daniel Gloria, Christine Raynaud, Jacek Ratajczak, Emmanuel Dubois
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 153701 (2013)

High Energy Density Plasmas


Drifting localization of ionization runaway: Unraveling the nature of anomalous transport in high power impulse magnetron sputtering

André Anders, Pavel Ni, Albert Rauch
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 053304 (2012)

X-ray backlight measurement of preformed plasma by kJ-class petawatt LFEX laser

Shinji Ohira, Shinsuke Fujioka, Atsushi Sunahara, Tomoyuki Johzaki, Hideo Nagatomo, Satoshi Matsuo, Noboru Morio, Jyunji Kawanaka, Yoshiki Nakata, Noriaki Miyanaga, Hiroyuki Shiraga, Hiroaki Nishimura, Hiroshi Azechi
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 063301 (2012)

Stability of very-high pressure arc discharges against perturbations of the electron temperature

M. S. Benilov, U. Hechtfischer
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 073305 (2012)

Magnetic Tunnel Junctions


Transmission electron microscopy study on the effect of various capping layers on CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB pseudo spin valves annealed at different temperatures

S. V. Karthik, Y. K. Takahashi, T. Ohkubo, K. Hono, H. D. Gan, S. Ikeda, H. Ohno
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 083922 (2012)

Perpendicular-magnetic-anisotropy CoFeB racetrack memory

Y. Zhang, W. S. Zhao, D. Ravelosona, J.-O. Klein, J. V. Kim, C. Chappert
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 093925 (2012)

Structural, electronic, magnetic and spin dependent transport properties of Fe/CaS/Fe (001) heterostructures

P. Vlaic, E. Burzo, K. Carva
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 053715 (2013)

Metamaterials


Observation of trapped-modes excited in double-layered symmetric electric ring resonators

Bo-jeong Seo, Kwanghoon Kim, Sung Gug Kim, Areun Kim, HyungJoon Cho, EunMi Choi
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 113106 (2012)

Manipulation of electromagnetically-induced transparency in planar metamaterials based on phase coupling

Xing-Ri Jin, Yuehui Lu, Jinwoo Park, Haiyu Zheng, Feng Gao, YoungPak Lee, Joo Yull Rhee, Ki Won Kim, H. Cheong, Won Ho Jang
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 073101 (2012)

Mapping inter-element coupling in metamaterials: Scaling down to infrared

E. Tatartschuk, N. Gneiding, F. Hesmer, A. Radkovskaya, E. Shamonina
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 094904 (2012)

Nanodots


Effects of the surface charge screening and temperature on the vortex domain patterns of ferroelectric nanodots

C. M. Wu, W. J. Chen, D. C. Ma, C. H. Woo, Yue Zheng
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 104108 (2012)

Three dimensional nano-seeding assembly of ferromagnetic Fe/LaSrFeO4 nano-hetero dot array

K. Okada, T. Sakamoto, K. Fujiwara, A. N. Hattori, T. Kanki, H. Tanaka
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 024320 (2012)

Directional-dependent coercivities and magnetization reversal mechanisms in fourfold ferromagnetic systems of varying sizes

T. Blachowicz, A. Ehrmann, P. Stebliński, J. Palka
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 013901 (2013)

Photonics


One-photon band gap engineering of borate glass doped with ZnO for photonics applications

Manal Abdel-Baki, Fathy A. Abdel-Wahab, Fouad El-Diasty
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 073506 (2012)

Polarization engineered 1-dimensional electron gas arrays

Digbijoy N. Nath, Pil Sung Park, Michele Esposto, David Brown, Stacia Keller, Umesh K. Mishra, Siddharth Rajan
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 043715 (2012)

Silver nano-entities through ultrafast double ablation in aqueous media for surface enhanced Raman scattering and photonics applications

G. Krishna Podagatlapalli, Syed Hamad, Surya P. Tewari, S. Sreedhar, Muvva D. Prasad, S. Venugopal Rao
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 073106 (2013)

Photovoltaics


Limiting efficiency of generalized realistic c-Si solar cells coupled to ideal up-converters

Craig M. Johnson, Gavin J. Conibeer
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 103108 (2012)

Ideal transparent conductors for full spectrum photovoltaics

Kin Man Yu, Marie A. Mayer, Derrick T. Speaks, Hongcai He, Ruying Zhao, L. Hsu, Samuel S. Mao, E. E. Haller, Wladek Walukiewicz
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 123505 (2012)

Chemical speciation at buried interfaces in high-temperature processed polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on ZnO:Al

Christiane Becker, Marcel Pagels, Carolin Zachäus, Beatrix Pollakowski, Burkhard Beckhoff, Birgit Kanngießer, Bernd Rech
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 044519 (2013)

Spin Waves


Point defect states of exchange spin waves in all-ferromagnetic two-dimensional magnonic crystals

Hui Yang, Guohong Yun, Yongjun Cao
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 013908 (2012)

The impact of the lattice symmetry and the inclusion shape on the spectrum of 2D magnonic crystals

J. W. Kłos, M. L. Sokolovskyy, S. Mamica, M. Krawczyk
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 123910 (2012)

Non-reciprocity of dipole-exchange spin waves in thin ferromagnetic films

M. Kostylev
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 053907 (2013)

Thermoelectrics


Enhanced carrier density in Nb-doped SrTiO3 thermoelectrics

K. Ozdogan, M. Upadhyay Kahaly, S. R. Sarath Kumar, H. N. Alshareef, U. Schwingenschlögl
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 054313 (2012)

Improvements of the thermoelectric properties of PbTe via simultaneous doping with indium and iodine

Mykhailo Guch, Cheriyedath Raj Sankar, James R. Salvador, Gregory P. Meisner, Holger Kleinke
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 063706 (2012)

Enhancement of thermoelectric performance in strontium titanate by praseodymium substitution

A. V. Kovalevsky, A. A. Yaremchenko, S. Populoh, A. Weidenkaff, J. R. Frade
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 053704 (2013)

Terahertz Spectroscopy


Terahertz imaging system using high-Tc superconducting oscillation devices

M. Tsujimoto, H. Minami, K. Delfanazari, M. Sawamura, R. Nakayama, T. Kitamura, T. Yamamoto, T. Kashiwagi, T. Hattori, K. Kadowaki
J. Appl. Phys. 111, 123111 (2012)

Terahertz transmission characteristics across the phase transition in VO2 films deposited on Si, sapphire, and SiO2 substrates

Qiwu Shi, Wanxia Huang, Jing Wu, Yaxin Zhang, Yuanjie Xu, Yang Zhang, Shen Qiao, Jiazhen Yan
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 033523 (2012)

Localized surface plasmon resonances in graphene ribbon arrays for sensing of dielectric environment at infrared frequencies

Borislav Vasić, Goran Isić, Radoš Gajić
J. Appl. Phys. 113, 013110 (2013)
 
 
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