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.
The paradigm of metamaterials, in which engineered structures are used to control wave propagation and transport, are applicable to a wide range of dynamical systems. First conceived for electromagnetics, the…
Dimensional scaling of materials dramatically modifies their electrical, thermal, mechanical, and magnetic properties, as well as their material-property relationship, which in turn alters the physical behavior of nanoscale electronic devices.…
Recently, piezoelectric thin films have attracted considerable attention as one of the new key technologies for IoT related MEMS devices. The most popular piezoelectric thin films are PZT-based perovskite materials,…
The ability to control thermal radiation is important for a broad range of applications, including thermal management, spectroscopy, optoelectronics, and energy-conversion devices. Nanostructured materials, such as metamaterials and photonic architectures,…
Advanced batteries play a key role in promoting the development of emerging fields, including but not limited to 3C products, robots, e-tools, EVs, E-ships, E-airplanes and energy storage. Although the…
Phononics deals with quanta of crystal lattice vibrations – phonons – whose characteristics influence elastic, acoustic, thermal, optical, and electrical properties of materials. Phononics of layered materials and their heterostructures…
Metal oxides are ubiquitous in modern-day electronics with their applications extending across energy, lighting, information displays and biosensors, to human-machine interface technologies. One area where metal oxides have played a…
Voltage control of magnetism is among the most promising routes to low-power control of magnetic states in spintronics applications. Charge and ionic effects in technologically relevant magnetic materials have shown…
Light microscopy has become the most widely used quantitative technique for biologists. Since the 1980s, optical designs are configured to match the requirements of biological microscopists – be it sample…
The first direct measurement of gravitational waves occurred on September 14, 2015, one century after Albert Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity. Since then, about 90 gravitational-wave sources have…