Applied Physics Letters
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Effect of superhydrophobic microstructures on the heat transfer performance of surgical electrode: Droplet and bubble dynamics investigation
Severe thermal damage to biological tissue resulting from active electrosurgical electrodes often causes corresponding tissue adhesion and reduces cutting efficiency during the surgery process. The in...
Deep sub-wavelength broadband metasurface with micro-perforated panels and extended-neck Helmholtz resonators
This study develops, fabricates, and characterizes a deep sub-wavelength broadband acoustic metasurface for noise absorption. The metasurface is composed of micro-perforated panels coupled with extend...
Importance of metallic nanotube flexibility on its field emission characteristics
It is known that field electron emission (FE) characteristics of emitters are influenced by their flexibility, as bending under an applied electrostatic field, EP, can significantly increase their cha...
Magnetic bimeron traveling on the domain wall
Domain wall bimerons are nanoscale spin textures residing within the magnetic domain walls of in-plane magnets. In this study, we employ both numerical and analytical methods to explore the stabilizat...
Rapid response of polyvinylidene fluoride films to vapor stimuli: Role of polymorphic phase fractions
Bioinspired three-dimensional shape deformations of smart polymers in response to stimuli such as light, vapor, and external fields have garnered significant attention in the field of soft robotics. A...
Single-mode InAs/GaAs quantum-dot DFB laser with oxidized aperture confined surface grating
InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are promising candidates for the next-generation photonic integrated circuits. We present a design that incorporates an oxidized aperture c...
Which one is more favorable in halide perovskites, A-site migration or X-site?
Halide perovskites have emerged as promising materials in the field of optoelectronics, offering significant advantages over traditional semiconductors. Their structural versatility and remarkable opt...
Fast photophysical processes of a single NV center modulated by the near-infrared laser pulse
The photophysics of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been extensively investigated. Especially the fast optical switch based on the NV centers' photoluminescence (PL) by the near-infrar...
Spin–orbit coupling and quantum linear magnetoresistance of PbTe thin films
We have achieved the epitaxial growth of PbTe thin films on SrTiO3 substrates. The in-plane magnetoconductivity exhibits a transition from a quadratic to a linear relationship as the applied magnetic...
Resolving contradictory estimates of band gaps of bulk PdSe2: A Wannier-localized optimally-tuned screened range-separated hybrid density functional theory study
Palladium diselenide (PdSe2)—a layered van der Waals material—is attracting significant attention for optoelectronics due to the wide tunability of its band gap from the infrared through the visible r...
Comment on “A re-examination of claims of aminoferrocene–graphene-based molecular magnets,” [Appl. Phys. Lett. <b>124</b>, 111903 (2024)]
Identifying NV center axes via spatially varying microwave fields for vector magnetometry
Vector magnetometry using an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers holds great promise across a wide range of applications. Since NV centers are sensitive to external magnetic fields projected ont...
Signature of metal–metal bonding in Ir–Ni–Ta–(B) bulk metallic glasses
In bulk metallic glasses, minimizing the total electronic energy is a key factor in glass formation. However, it remains unclear how this energy is minimized, particularly in metallic glasses made up...
Linear regulation of perovskite work function through organic molecular layer surface modification
Surface modification via organic molecular layers is an effective strategy for experimentally regulating the work function (Φ) of perovskites. However, achieving precise control over Φ of perovskites...
On-chip integration and strong coupling between ScAlN thin-film surface acoustic wave resonators and superconducting qubits
Thin-film surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices exhibit high quality factors and are promising candidates for quantum transducers, with significant potential for on-chip integration with high-coherence...
Locally sealed microfabricated vapor cells filled from an ex situ Cs source
Microfabricated alkali vapor cells are key to enable miniature devices such as atomic clocks and optically pumped magnetometers with reduced size, weight, and power. Yet, more versatile fabrication me...
Modeling realistic multilayer devices for superconducting quantum electronic circuits
In this work, we present a numerical model specifically designed for 3D multilayer devices, with a focus on nanobridge junctions and coplanar waveguides. Unlike existing numerical models, ours does no...
High-precision 3D optical profilometry of non-cooperative targets by time-domain dual-comb coherent averaging
A challenge in industrial non-contact surface mapping applications is to resolve the competing requirements of high measurement precision and sufficient large working distance. In this letter, we intr...
Magnetic skyrmions on flexible substrates
Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin swirls possessing intriguing electromagnetic properties. The integration of skyrmion materials into flexible substrates has led to the development of flexible s...
Structural transition and emission enhancement in vacancy-ordered halide double perovskite Cs2TeCl6 under pressure
The effect of pressure on the structural evolution, the enhancement of the photoluminescence intensity, and the optical bandgap of a vacancy-ordered double halide perovskite, Cs2TeCl6, is investigated...
Multimodal correlative study of Hall transport and magnetic phases in Fe/Gd multilayer systems
The Fe/Gd multilayer system hosts a number of magnetic phases, such as stripe, mixed stripe and skyrmion, skyrmion lattice, and isolated skyrmions for a wide range of temperature and magnetic field. W...
Synaptic solar-blind UV PD based on STO/AlXGa1−XN heterostructure for neuromorphic computing
The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing have emphasized the need for efficient optoelectronic artificial synapses, essential elements in neuromorphic computing...
Structural softness in photovoltaic perovskites
Perovskite photovoltaics (PVs) are a compelling candidate as a next-generation energy harvesting technology owing to the outstanding optoelectronic properties, low cost, and facile fabrication of pero...
Metamaterial-based resonant structure for miniaturized low-frequency relativistic magnetrons
This paper introduces a metamaterial (MTM)-based resonant structure and applies it to relativistic magnetrons (RMs) with an all-cavity axial extraction technique. The MTM structure is designed to over...
Broadband high-efficiency aperiodic metasurface for the vortex waves generation
Vortices have diverse applications in optics, such as ultrafast singular optics, quantum optics, microscopy as well as optical trapping. These applications require compact, easily integrated, and high...