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Applied Physics Letters

Applied Physics Letters (APL) features concise, up-to-date reports on significant new findings in applied physics. Emphasizing rapid dissemination of key data and new physical insights, APL offers prompt publication of new experimental and theoretical papers reporting applications of physics phenomena to all branches of science, engineering, and modern technology.

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Electronic Noise – From Advanced Materials to Quantum Technologies

Submission Deadline: February 23, 2023

This Special Issue on Electronic Noise – From Advanced Materials to Quantum Technologies will include recent developments in experimental and theoretical aspects of electronic noise and fluctuation processes across a…

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UV/DUV Light Emitters

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2023

Solid-state UV/DUV light emitters with wavelengths from 400 nm down to 200 nm are the fundamental building block for several key applications. Polymer curing, air-water purification, bio-medical instrumentation, gas sensing,…

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Advances in Superconducting Logic

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2023

Over the last two decades, superconducting logic has undergone an evolution that has diversified the basic technology fundamentals and broadened its application space. We have seen the advancement of existing…

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Energy Conversion and Storage in Functional Dielectrics

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2023

Functional dielectrics, with unique electro-active behaviors such as ferro-, piezo- and pyro-electric properties, are attracting extensive attention for energy conversion and storage applications. Examples include capacitors, solid-state coolers, transducers, sensors…

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Fundamentals and Applications of Metamaterials: Breaking the Limits

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023

Metamaterials reveal exceptional mechanical and dynamic responses, including negative or extreme elastic, thermal and acoustic properties, shape morphability, vibration damping, memory, invisibility cloaking, and machine-like functionalities, due to their clever…

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Accelerate Materials Discovery and Phenomena

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023

Recent advances in machine learning have created a revolution in all areas of science and engineering. For example, advanced data analytics tools based on computer vision methods such as object…

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Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2023

Since the first observations and explanations of the ‘lotus effect’ in nature, superhydrophobic surfaces have received intense and sustained interest in recent decades. With a large water contact angle and…

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Critical Issues on the 2D-material-based Field-effect Transistors

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2023

The Si complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has followed the Moore’s Law to scale the size and thickness of active channels, but it becomes very challenging when Si approaches…

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Ferrimagnetic Spintronics

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2023

Ferrimagnetic materials are composed of several different, non-parallel but coupled magnetic sublattices. When a spin current is injected in a ferrimagnet, it can exert different torques on the sublattices. Moreover,…

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Past Special Topics From Applied Physics Letters

Quantum Sensing with Correlated Light Sources

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Hybrid Quantum Devices

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Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors

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Ferroelectricity in Hafnium Oxide: Materials and Devices

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Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT): Materials, Physics, and Devices

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Metastructures: From Physics to Application

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Mesoscopic Magnetic Systems: From Fundamental Properties to Devices

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Non-Classical Light Emitters and Single-Photon Detectors

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Scalable Ways to Break the Efficiency Limit of Single-Junction Solar Cells

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Charge-Density-Wave Quantum Materials and Devices

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Organic and Hybrid Thermoelectrics

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Twisted 2D Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices

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Advances in 5G Physics, Materials, and Devices

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New Solution-processed Perovskites and Perovskite-inspired Optoelectronic Materials and Devices

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Materials for Renewable Fuels Production

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Emerging Qubit Systems – Novel Materials, Encodings and Architectures

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Metastable High Entropy Alloys

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Neuromorphic Computing: From Quantum Materials to Emergent Connectivity

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Luminescent Crystals for High-Brightness Laser Based Solid State Lighting

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Zero-index Metamaterials for Classical and Quantum Light

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Ultrafast and Terahertz Spintronics

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Thermoelectric Materials Science and Technology Towards Applications

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One-Dimensional van der Waals Materials

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Wide- and Ultrawide-Bandgap Electronic Semiconductor Devices

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Optical Nanoprobe Spectroscopy and Imaging

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Photodetectors Based on Van der Waals Heterostructures and Hybrid 2D Materials

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Acoustic and Elastic Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

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Dimensional Scaling of Material Functional Properties to meet Back-End-of-Line (BEOL) Challenges

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Piezoelectric Thin Films for MEMS

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Thermal Radiation at the Nanoscale and Applications

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New technologies and new applications of advanced batteries

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Phononics of Graphene, Layered Materials, and Heterostructures

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Metal Oxide Thin-Film Electronics

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Magneto-ionic and Electrostatic Gating of Magnetism: Phenomena and Devices

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Time Modulated Metamaterials

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MXenes – Physics and Devices

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Advances in Optical Microscopy for Bioimaging

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Gravitational Wave Detectors

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