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.
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…
Time switched and time-varying metamaterials whose properties are modulated in time, have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation and information processing, beyond the limits set by energy…
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…
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,…
MXenes are a large family of 2D transition metal carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides with more than forty different synthesized compositions and structures and a hundred more that have been investigated…
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…
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…