Applied Physics Letters
Articles in this Issue
Intense light emission from discharge plasma coupled with metal oxides particles
Intense light sources hold significant scientific and technological importance owing to their broad applicability in advanced lighting, biomedical systems, and optoelectronic devices. This study inves...
Cassie-to-Wenzel transition of liquid metal on laser-structured substrates via water evaporation for reducing thermal contact resistance
Ga-based liquid metal has attracted widespread attention in thermal management owing to its high thermal conductivity. However, its ultrahigh surface tension hinders effective wetting on structured su...
Determination of mid-infrared refractive indices of superconducting thin films using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
In this work, we present a technique to determine the mid-infrared refractive indices of thin superconducting films using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). In particular, we performed FT...
Parallel wavefront single-pixel imaging
Wavefront single-pixel imaging (WSPI) can efficiently capture the amplitude and phase information of an unknown field using a single-pixel detector. However, as the imaging resolution increases, more...
High performance rigid and flexible tandem perovskite photovoltaics under mimic high-altitude platform satellite environments
Perovskite photovoltaics (PPV) have the potential to be used for aerospace applications due to, e.g., their high power-per-mass, high flexibility, and low-cost. Recent developments in narrow bandgap (...
Ferroelectric control of antiferromagnetism via coordination swapping in A2Mo3O8 (A = Mn, Fe, Co)
Transition metal molybdenum oxides A2Mo3O8 (A = Mn, Fe, Co) are known to be polar magnets where A ions are located in either octahedrally or tetrahedrally coordinated sites. In this paper, we predict...
Circular photogalvanic effect at the surface of hydrogenated perovskite oxides
Surface electronic states represent a crucial material system for both fundamental physics research and electronic device applications. In this study, the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) in hydro...
WS2 p-MOSFETs with channels deposited by plasma-enhanced atomic-layer deposition
We report the demonstration of p-channel WS2 metal oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) using channels deposited by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PE-ALD). Substrate-gated devices using...
Coordination effect in generating plasma by gliding arc-microwave hybrid discharge in atmospheric-pressure air
A type of gas discharge, defined as a gliding arc-microwave hybrid discharge (also called microwave-enhanced gliding arc discharge or gliding arc-assisted microwave discharge), is proposed, and its co...
Computational inverse design of acoustoplasmonic metasurfaces
Optical and acoustic metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength elements that locally modulate or phase shift incident waves. Acoustoplasmonic metasurfaces combine the physics of light a...
Excitation and generation mechanism of high Q factors resonance in terahertz all-dielectric metasurfaces
In optical applications, optical resonators with high quality (Q) factors are crucial for enhancing light–matter interactions. However, achieving high Q factors in terahertz (THz) devices is often cha...
20-dimensional surrogate-assisted Bayesian optimization of laser-driven proton beams
Laser-driven proton acceleration, as obtained by the interaction of a high-intensity laser with matter, is a promising technique for generating high-quality proton beams. One of the main challenges is...
Tunable layer-polarized anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional 3R-GdBrI bilayer
Layer-polarized anomalous Hall effect (LP-VHE), coupling valley-contrasting physics and layer degree of freedom, stands as a crucial development for potential applications in valleytronics. Based on f...
<i>In situ</i> alloyed zinc–copper layer accelerates Zn ion migration for highly reversible Zn anodes
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have garnered significant attention, but several obstacles associated with zinc anodes impede the advancement of AZIBs. Constructing protective coatings on Zn anodes...
Pressure-induced metallization and tetravalent antimony formation in the mixed-valent defect perovskite Cs2SbBr6
We report high-pressure investigations of the mixed-valent perovskite Cs2SbBr6, in which Sb3+ and Sb5+ cations coexist, and two types of distorted SbBr6 octahedra are arranged without connectivity, fo...
Mid-infrared broadband nonreciprocal thermal radiation involving patterned Weyl semimetal
A mid-infrared broadband nonreciprocal thermal emitter, composed of a patterned Weyl semimetal placed above a metallic mirror, has been designed and studied. The findings indicate that significant non...
Enhancement in tunnel magnetoresistance for magnetic tunnel junctions in Mn based Heusler compounds
Magnetic random-access memory is now a mainstream memory offering from semiconductor fabs worldwide. Heusler compounds such as Mn3Ge, which have large bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, low magne...
Precise characterization of Peltier heat at the heterointerface based on thermography
With the increasingly widespread application of thermoelectric cooling technology, the demand for precise characterization of the Peltier effect at material heterointerfaces is growing rapidly. It can...
Strain glass in Sn-doped NiTi shape memory alloys
In this study, we presented the discovery of strain glass (STG) in Ni49.4Ti50.6−xSnx shape memory alloys (SMAs). The findings highlighted a significant advancement in the understanding of the structur...
Promising bulk photovoltaic effect in breathing-kagome lattice Nb3TeX7 (X = I, Cl) monolayers
The breathing-kagome lattice materials, distinguished by their captivating electronic structures alongside ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, and nonlinear optical properties, have stimulated considerable...
Effective reduction in thermal conductivity by high-density dislocations in SrTiO3
Decreasing thermal conductivity is important for designing efficient thermoelectric devices. Traditional engineering strategies have focused on point defects and interface design. Recently, dislocatio...
Quantum-confined ultramicropores in nodal-line semimetal C32 for high-efficiency lithium/sodium-ion battery anodes
Carbon-based materials integrating ultramicroporous architectures with topological quantum characteristics have recently gained prominence as next-generation ion battery anodes due to their exceptiona...
Sign reversal of spin–orbit torque induced by interfacial antiferromagnetic coupling
Nonmagnetic-metal/ferromagnetic heterostructures have drawn extensive attention due to the generation of spin–orbit torque (SOT). This work is based on the large spin Hall angle observed in Pt0.70(GdO...
Shared aperture dual-mode wideband metasurface system for in-band full-duplex millimeter-wave communications
A simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) metasurface system configuration based on shared aperture methodology is proposed for in-band full-duplex millimeter-wave communication. It is fulfilled by t...
The quantromon: A qubit-resonator system with orthogonal qubit and readout modes
The measurement of a superconducting qubit is implemented by coupling it to a resonator. The common choice is transverse coupling, which, in the dispersive approximation, introduces an interaction ter...