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.
For applications such as storing quantum states with rapid access, linking remote quantum processors or sensing sound at the quantum limit, quantum hybrids combine two or more physical systems that…
Research in ultra-wide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor materials and devices continues to progress rapidly, providing new and exciting research opportunities for a wide range of electronic, optical, sensing and quantum applications. Materials…
Since the unexpected discovery of ferroelectricity in hafnium oxide-based materials, the interest in this topic is continuously on the rise, both from basic science and application-oriented research sides. There are…
The explosion of big data requires the development of fast, energy-efficient, and nonvolatile data storage and processing techniques. Among the existing candidates, spintronic devices exhibit prominent attractive features. However, fast…
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in realizing artificial metasurfaces and metamaterials that provide novel and on-demand physical properties. Such metastructures can be designed on a variety…
This APL special topic is dedicated to a fascinating class of systems that contain magnetic elements at length scales in the range of a few nm up to a few…
Quantum photonic applications such as photonic quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum sensing require highly sophisticated non-classical light sources and high-efficiency single-photon detectors. The light sources should be able to…