Journal of Applied Physics

Vol. 139, Issue 2 Issue 2 2026
32
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Suppressing proximity effects during rapid serial two-photon lithography through tuning of reaction–diffusion kinetics

Golnaz Tojar, Sourabh K. Saha Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0287925

The ability of two-photon lithography (TPL) to print deterministic nanoporous 3D structures is highly valuable for many applications. However, it is challenging to print such structures rapidly due to...

Inverse design of two-dimensional tunable acoustic valley-Hall insulators via deep learning

Bin Li, Xiao-Wei Sun, Lin-Wei Hu et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0304039

Acoustic valley-Hall insulators leverage topological protection properties to enable unidirectional waveguiding, defect immunity, and low-loss transmission, exhibiting significant potential in applica...

Research on periodic discharge characteristics of atmospheric-pressure dual-pulse-modulated microwave Ar/N2 plasma jet

Binbin Chu, Zhaoquan Chen, Yuying Wang et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0303519

Atmospheric-pressure microwave plasma jet has significant advantages, including high reactivity, high density, and direct treatment of complex-shaped surfaces. Pulse-modulated microwave technology, wh...

Intrinsic and tunable lattice thermal conductivity of single- and multi-layer goldene: A machine-learning molecular dynamics study

Shuo Cao, Benrui Tang, Zezhu Zeng et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0300239

The recent successful fabrication of single- and multi-layer gold, referred to as goldene, represents a significant breakthrough in low-dimensional materials research. A fundamental understanding of i...

Influence of electrical properties on thermal boundary conductance at metal/semiconductor interface

Q. Pompidou, C. Acosta, M. Brouillard et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0303997

Recent experimental investigations have demonstrated that doping a semiconductor is a route to increase the thermal boundary conductance at metal/semiconductor interfaces. In this work, the influence...

Density functional theory study on the formation mechanism and electronic properties of two-dimensional electron gas in LaInO3/BaSnO3 heterostructures with ferroelectric engineering

Yaqin Wang, Yuling Li, Fangxu Wu et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0308463

Compared to the well-studied LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructure (HS), the regulation mechanism of ferroelectric on the interfacial properties of LaInO3/BaSnO3 HS remains relatively unexplored. Here, we inv...

Elastic modeling and total energy calculations of the structural characteristics of “free-standing,” periodic, pseudomorphic GaN/AlN superlattices

Th. Karakostas, Ph. Komninou, V. Pontikis Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0308423

The strain states of the components of pseudomorphic superlattices can be accurately modeled analytically through the application of linear elasticity. In this particular case of GaN/AlN “free-standin...

Predicting the critical temperature of superconductors and materials classification with a balanced dataset without prior knowledge

P. A. H. Nawoda, Gayan P. Hettiarachchi, M. D. T. Attygalle Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0290299

The discovery of new superconductors through traditional trial-and-error experimental methods is both challenging and costly. A data-driven strategy can speed up the time-consuming exploration process...

Critical lateral dimension of nanopedestals for ultimate relief of strain from lattice mismatch in Ge on Si

S. C. Lee Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0294092

Nanopedestals (NPs) that can ultimately relieve the strain in the lattice-mismatched heterostructures grown on them are investigated. The strain relief is achieved by the local compliance associated w...

Magnus force induced magnetic diode effect in skyrmion systems

J. C. Bellizotti Souza, C. J. O. Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0308055

We show that skyrmions can exhibit a “magnetic diode effect,” where there is a nonreciprocal response in the transport when the magnetic field is reversed. This effect can be achieved for skyrmions mo...

Origami-inspired electrohydraulic soft actuators: Multimodal robotic motion for jumping, crawling, and grasping

Yangyang Zhao, Jianhao Liu, Heng Fu et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0305087

Soft robotic joints demonstrate significant potential for enhancing robotic performance in complex environments through safe and powerful actuation. However, simultaneously achieving high torque, rapi...

Reversible magneto-ionics in crystallized W–Co20Fe60B20–MgO–HfO2 ultra-thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Song Chen, Elmer Monteblanco, Benjamin Borie et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0313594

We have investigated the electric field (E-field) induced modulation of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) in both amorphous and crystalline W/CoFeB/MgO/HfO2 ultra-thin films. We find that in the...

Chirality reversal of exceptional points in a dual-channel graphene-tunable terahertz metasurface

Xiang Hou, Fangze Deng, Yuping Zhang et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0309929

In non-Hermitian systems, a special degeneracy known as an exceptional point (EP) arises from the coalescence of both eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian. Chiral EPs, which exhibit polariz...

Accessing terapascal pressures on two-stage light-gas guns for high-energy-density research

M. G. Gorman, G. C. Burdiak, N. Niasse et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0302442

We present pressure amplifiers that have been developed to enable the study of material behavior at terapascal (TPa) pressures using two-stage light-gas gun (2SLGG) facilities. When impacted by a hype...

Predicting vacancy formation energies in refractory non-dilute random alloys using improved graph-based machine learning models trained on density functional theory data

Mahshad Fani, Oluwatimilehin Akinloye, Anvesh Nathani et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0304829

This study employs four machine learning (ML) models—random forest (RF), XGBoost, graph convolutional networks (GCN), and graph attention networks (GAT)—to predict vacancy formation energies (VFEs) in...

Exciton-mediated optical transitions in PVA composites containing xerogel, amorphous, and crystalline silica from rice husks

Agus Riyanto, Silmi Machmudah, Sri Yani Purwaningsih et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0303250

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is a polymer known for its fluorescence; however, its relatively low exciton formation restricts its potential in optoelectronic devices. This study aims to enhance the optical...

Epitaxial configuration of unidirectionally aligned MoS2 monolayer on sapphire

Akihiro Ohtake, Jun Nara, Yoshiki Sakuma Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0303598

Highly oriented MoS2 monolayer (ML) on the sapphire(0001) substrate was grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The epitaxial configuration of ML-MoS2/sapphire has been studied using low-ene...

Enhancing conductivity and near-infrared optical transparency of transparent conductive electrodes through Ag nanowire incorporation and DMSO post-treatment

Tzu-Yu Huang, Chien-Chen Li, Wei-Hsiang Lin et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0292138

Exploring the enhancement of PEDOT:PSS transparent conductive films through the incorporation of silver nanowires (AgNWs) and a highly effective yet simplified post-treatment strategy using a single-s...

Time-resolved study of thermal effects in p-InAsSb/n-InAs0.78Sb0.22 negative luminescence devices

S. A. Karandashev, A. A. Klimov, R. E. Kunkov et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0287873

Analysis of optical signal variation during and after a single 500 μs pumping pulse in p-InAsSb/n-InAs0.78Sb0.22 diodes at forward and reverse biases measured in a broad band (2–14 μm), a long wave (8...

Analytical model for balling defects in laser melting using rivulet theory and solidification

Z. Taylor, T. Reddy, M. Fitzpatrick et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0263633

In laser welding and additive manufacturing communities, the balling (humping) defect is primarily attributed to the Plateau–Rayleigh fluid instability (PRI) with a few authors suggesting fluid jettin...

Variational quantum eigensolver models of molecular quantum dot cellular automata

Nischal Binod Gautam, Enrique P. Blair Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0304168

Molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) may provide low-power, high-speed computational hardware for processing classical information. Simulation and modeling play an important role in the desig...

Pressure-induced anomalous suppressed thermal conductivity in MgX (X = Se, Te): Soft phonon modes and enhanced four-phonon scattering

Kunpeng Yuan, Zhehan Duan, Xiaoliang Zhang et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0301865

Understanding the mechanism by which pressure modulates lattice thermal conductivity has been a focus in the study of thermal transport. In this work, based on the first-principles calculations combin...

Solid–liquid phase transitions of deuterium under microspherical confinement

Junnan Bai, Fei Dai, Guanhua Chen et al. Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0307001

We investigated the solid–liquid phase transition of deuterium (D2) in microspheres using relaxation calorimetry. By developing a point-by-point analysis method for the temperature–time curves, we ide...

Anisotropic diffusion of hydrogen dopants in crystalline InAlZnO

Gil Su Jeon, Jeong Wook Kim, Byoung Don Kong Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0303334

Hydrogen incorporation strongly affects carrier density and reliability in oxide semiconductors, yet its behavior in the crystalline indium–aluminum–zinc oxide has not been fully established. Using fi...

Optical conductivity and tunable linear dichroism of surface states in strained three-dimensional topological insulators

Huaihua Shao, Xiaowei Ji, Xiaoying Zhou Jan 14, 2026 10.1063/5.0286563

We theoretically investigate the influence of anisotropic shear strain on the optical conductivity and linear dichroism of surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators. By employing an e...

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Publisher American Institute of Physics
ISSN 0021-8979
E-ISSN 1089-7550
Subject Physical Sciences
Language English
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