Journal of Applied Physics
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Estimating transparency and penetration depth enhancement induced by clearing tissue using optical coherence tomography
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) technology offers numerous advantages, including non-contact imaging, rapid imaging capabilities, and high resolution. Although the enhancement of optical transparen...
Achieving robust ferroelectric polarization in uncapped Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin films by incorporating Al dopant
In this study, we developed an uncapped HfO2-based ferroelectric (FE) film by incorporating Al dopants into Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 (HZO) films, offering a viable solution to eliminate the need for a top electro...
Optimization of HgCdTe nBn photodetectors utilizing a superlattice barrier
HgCdTe is an excellent material for mid-wavelength infrared photodetectors, but it can be costly when grown on nearly lattice-matched CdZnTe substrates. Growth on lower cost, lattice-mismatched CdTe/S...
Impact initiated chemical energy release of TiZr-based reactive high-entropy alloy
Reactive structural materials, combining the outstanding mechanical properties and significant chemical energy-release characteristic, have a wide range of critical applications in the defense and ene...
Structure–property relations of binary ferrite melts
Molten ferrite systems are used in the smelting and refining processes in steelmaking, to reduce the loss of metals in slags and to accelerate reaction rates. Here, high-energy x-ray diffraction exper...
Thermoelectric properties of penta-InP5: A first-principles and machine learning study
Smart wearable devices that harvest energy from ambient sources, such as body heat, are gaining significant attention due to their potential in diverse applications. Thermoelectric (TE) materials, whi...
Reproducing the thermal effects induced by aging in La-based amorphous alloy
Physical aging intrinsically exists in amorphous materials and refers to the evolution of the nonequilibrium structure toward an equilibrium state. The aging process can significantly affect the therm...
Anomalous coercive field enhancement and phase transitions in 30Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3–40Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–30PbTiO3 ferroelectrics under pressure
We investigated the spectroscopy and ferroelectric properties of 30Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3–40Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–30PbTiO3 (30PIN-40PMN-30PT) single crystal as a function of pressure up to about 5 GPa. The hyste...
Analytical models for the thermal properties of n-type porous silicon layers: Dependence of porosity
Several reports in the literature concern the thermal properties of porous silicon samples considering the porous layer plus the silicon substrate, but not so of the porous layer in particular. This w...
Pressure-regulated bandgap narrowing and photoelectric activity enhancement in layered halide compound GeI2
Layered semiconductors offer distinct advantages for optoelectronically responsive heterojunction devices due to their strong light–matter interactions and weak interlayer van der Waals interactions,...
Epitaxial thin films of pyrochlore iridates: A forward looking approach
Topological quantum materials that show strongly correlated electrons as well as topological order, for which spin–orbit coupling is a key ingredient, exhibit novel states of matter. One such example...
Contribution of holes to the thermoelectric properties of gated bilayer graphene junctions
The study of 2D materials in renewable energies has been of great interest due to the growing demand for energy generation without affecting the environment. This includes 2D materials such as bilayer...
Spatial description of dislocation nucleation in the shock response of single-crystal aluminum
Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of shock loaded single-crystal Al in the ⟨100⟩, ⟨110⟩, ⟨111⟩, and ⟨123⟩ orientations are conducted to study elastic and plastic shockwave formation and de...
Strain-induced flatbands in large-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has attracted widespread attention due to its unique and tunable properties. In this study, we systematically investigate the effects of in-plane biaxial tensile strain...
Al0.8Sc0.2N film-based BAW filters using transfer process for Wi-Fi6 applications
With the emergence of fifth-generation communication systems, filters with bandwidth (BW) >5% and center frequency >4 GHz are in urgent need. This work presents film bulk acoustic resona...
Near ideal photoluminescence in perovskites: Excitonic effects and self-consistent back extraction of recombination parameters
Recent reports indicate that perovskite-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) have achieved an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 32%—rather an internal quantum efficiency close to 100%. Much of this i...
Simultaneous observation of zero-index band and quasibound state in the continuum in all dielectric photonic crystals
Zero-index (ZI) photonic materials show the absence of spatial phase accumulation, making them a suitable candidate for many useful optical applications. On the other hand, a bound state in the contin...
Conductive metal oxide and hafnium oxide bilayer resistive random-access memory: An <i>ab initio</i> study
We perform density functional theory simulations of interfaces between two conductive metal-oxides (CMOs, namely, TaO and TiO) and cubic hafnium oxide (HfO2) in the context of bilayer Resistive Random...
Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy of magnon–phonon thermal spectra of an in-plane magnetized YIG film in two-dimensional wavevector space
Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS) spectroscopy is widely used for studying collective acoustic and magnetic excitations. In magnetism, it is employed as a versatile tool for measuring the characteristi...
Publisher's note: “High-temperature annealing induced electrical compensation in UID and Sn doped β-Ga2O3 bulk samples: The role of VGa–Sn complexes” [J. Appl. Phys. 137, 055703 (2025)]
Self-diffusion and interface diffusion in crystalline and amorphous Ni/Ti multilayer: A molecular dynamics study
Diffusion phenomena in crystalline and amorphous Ni/Ti binary multilayer systems have been simulated by the molecular dynamics (MD) technique in a wide temperature range of 473–1600 K and compared wit...
Design of a new open-type active electromagnetic metamaterial for magnetic field control based on numerical method
Controlling magnetic field with active electromagnetic metamaterial (AEM) consisting of a group of wires with precise arrangements of currents, essential for a wide range of applications, is limited b...
Highly transparent smart thermal emitter realized by thin vanadium dioxide
Global energy shortage necessitates enhancing environmentally friendly and energy-saving technologies. This study demonstrates a smart thermal emitter (STE) with high visual transparency and temperatu...
RETRACTED: Optimizing light absorption and emission in thermophotovoltaics: A study of tungsten–hafnium dioxide metamaterials
This study presents a theoretical investigation into the spectral performance of a metamaterial structure composed of tungsten (W) and hafnium dioxide (HfO2) layers, which are specifically designed fo...
Scaling effects on the microstructure and thermomechanical response of through silicon vias (TSVs)
The dimensional scaling of through silicon vias (TSVs) is critical for the advancement of high-density 3D integration in future logic-on-logic and logic-on-memory computing architectures. Realizing su...