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.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…