We present the most downloaded papers of the pss journal family from April 2014.

physica status solidi (RRL)

• R. Sbiaa, H. Meng, S. N. Piramanayagam
  Materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for magnetic random access memory [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2011, vol. 5, p. 413
• R. R. LaPierre, A. C. E. Chia, S. J. Gibson, C. M. Haapamaki, J. Boulanger, R. Yee, P. Kuyanov, J. Zhang, N. Tajik, N. Jewell, K. M. A. Rahman
  III–V nanowire photovoltaics: Review of design for high efficiency [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 815
• Jacky Even, Laurent Pedesseau, Jean-Marc Jancu, Claudine Katan
  DFT and k · p modelling of the phase transitions of lead and tin halide perovskites for photovoltaic cells [rrl solar]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 31
• Liang He, Xufeng Kou, Kang L. Wang
  Review of 3D topological insulator thin-film growth by molecular beam epitaxy and potential applications [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 50
• A. Mazid Munshi, Helge Weman
  Advances in semiconductor nanowire growth on graphene [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 713
• Anna Isaeva, Bertold Rasche, Michael Ruck
  Bismuth-based candidates for topological insulators: Chemistry beyond Bi₂Te₃ [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 39
• Lukas Müchler, Frederick Casper, Binghai Yan, Stanislav Chadov, Claudia Felser
  Topological insulators and thermoelectric materials [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 91
• Philip Jackson, Dimitrios Hariskos, Roland Wuerz, Wiltraud Wischmann, Michael Powalla
  Compositional investigation of potassium doped Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ solar cells with efficiencies up to 20.8% [rrl solar]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 219
• Gregor Koblmüller, Gerhard Abstreiter
  Growth and properties of InGaAs nanowires on silicon [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 11
• Haijun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang
  Topological insulators from the perspective of first-principles calculations [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 72
• B. Hoex, M. C. M. van de Sanden, J. Schmidt, R. Brendel, W. M. M. Kessels
  Surface passivation of phosphorus-diffused n⁺-type emitters by plasma-assisted atomic-layer deposited Al₂O₃ [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2012, vol. 6, p. 4
• M. Veldhorst, M. Snelder, M. Hoek, C. G. Molenaar, D. P. Leusink, A. A. Golubov, H. Hilgenkamp, A. Brinkman
  Magnetotransport and induced superconductivity in Bi based three-dimensional topological insulators [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 26
• Ying Tian, Junzhuang Cong, Shipeng Shen, Yisheng Chai, Liqin Yan, Shouguo Wang, Young Sun
  Electric control of magnetism in a multiferroic metal–organic framework [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 91
• Jan Carl Budich, Björn Trauzettel
  From the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics to topological states of matter [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 109

physica status solidi (a)

• Anthony M. Diamond, Luca Corbellini, K. R. Balasubramaniam, Shiyou Chen, Shuzhi Wang, Tyler S. Matthews, Lin-Wang Wang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Joel W. Ager
  Copper-alloyed ZnS as a p-type transparent conducting material [Advanced Materials Physics]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2012, vol. 209, p. 2101
• Kang, Sung-Hwan; Zhao, Xiaohui; Manuel, James; Ahn, Hyo-Jun; Kim, Ki-Won; Cho, Kwon-Koo; Ahn, Jou-Hyeon
  Effect of sulfur loading on energy density of lithium sulfur batteries [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.201330569
• B. Lüssem, M. Riede, K. Leo
  Doping of organic semiconductors [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 9
• Wolfgang Brütting, Jörg Frischeisen, Tobias D. Schmidt, Bert J. Scholz, Christian Mayr
  Device efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes: Progress by improved light outcoupling [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 44
• Marius Grundmann, Friedrich-Leonhard Schein, Michael Lorenz, Tammo Böntgen, Jörg Lenzner, Holger von Wenckstern
  Cuprous iodide – a p-type transparent semiconductor: history and novel applications [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 1671
• Stefan Adams, R. Prasada Rao
  High power lithium ion battery materials by computational design [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2011, vol. 208, p. 1746
• Dieter Weller, Oleksandr Mosendz, Gregory Parker, Simone Pisana, Tiffany S. Santos
  L1₀ FePtX–Y media for heat-assisted magnetic recording [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 1245
• Schierning, Gabi
  Silicon nanostructures for thermoelectric devices: A review of the current state of the art [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.201300408
• L. K. Lee, L. K. Aagesen, K. Thornton, P.-C. Ku
  Origin of broad luminescence from site-controlled InGaN nanodots fabricated by selective-area epitaxy [Advanced Materials Physics]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2014, vol. 211, p. 531
• Czeschik, Anna; Offenhäusser, Andreas; Wolfrum, Bernhard
  Fabrication of MEA-based nanocavity sensor arrays for extracellular recording of action potentials [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.201330365
• Masataka Higashiwaki, Kohei Sasaki, Akito Kuramata, Takekazu Masui, Shigenobu Yamakoshi
  Development of gallium oxide power devices [Invited Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2014, vol. 211, p. 21
• Joachim Piprek
  Efficiency droop in nitride-based light-emitting diodes [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2010, vol. 207, p. 2217
• Simone Hofmann, Mauro Furno, Björn Lüssem, Karl Leo, Malte C. Gather
  Investigation of triplet harvesting and outcoupling efficiency in highly efficient two-color hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes [Advanced Materials Physic]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 1467
• Sebastian Reineke, Marc A. Baldo
  Recent progress in the understanding of exciton dynamics within phosphorescent OLEDs [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2012, vol. 209, p. 2341

physica status solidi (b)

• Markus Morgenstern
  Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of graphene on insulating substrates [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2011, vol. 248, p. 2423
• B. K. Meyer, A. Polity, D. Reppin, M. Becker, P. Hering, P. J. Klar, Th. Sander, C. Reindl, J. Benz, M. Eickhoff, C. Heiliger, M. Heinemann, J. Bläsing, A. Krost, S. Shokovets, C. Müller, C. Ronning
  Binary copper oxide semiconductors: From materials towards devices [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 1487
• Jutta Rogal, Sergiy V. Divinski, Mike W. Finnis, Albert Glensk, Jörg Neugebauer, John H. Perepezko, Sergej Schuwalow, Marcel H. F. Sluiter, Bo Sundman
  Perspectives on point defect thermodynamics [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 97
• Henning Sirringhaus, Tomo Sakanoue, Jui-Fen Chang
  Charge-transport physics of high-mobility molecular semiconductors [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 1655
• Changgu Lee, Xiaoding Wei, Qunyang Li, Robert Carpick, Jeffrey W. Kysar, James Hone
  Elastic and frictional properties of graphene [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2009, vol. 246, p. 2562
• E.W. Piotrowski, J. Sładkowski, J. Syska, S. Zaj&acedil;c
  The method of the likelihood and the Fisher information in the construction of physical models [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2009, vol. 246, p. 1033
• B. K. Meyer, H. Alves, D. M. Hofmann, W. Kriegseis, D. Forster, F. Bertram, J. Christen, A. Hoffmann, M. Straßburg, M. Dworzak, U. Haboeck, A. V. Rodina
  Bound exciton and donor–acceptor pair recombinations in ZnO [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2004, vol. 241, p. 231
• Chandler A. Becker, John Ågren, Marcello Baricco, Qing Chen, Sergei A. Decterov, Ursula R. Kattner, John H. Perepezko, Gernot R. Pottlacher, Malin Selleby
  Thermodynamic modelling of liquids: CALPHAD approaches and contributions from statistical physics [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 33
• Sergey Yu. Krylov, Joost W. M. Frenken
  The physics of atomic-scale friction: Basic considerations and open questions [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 711
• Fritz Körmann, Abed Al Hasan Breidi, Sergei L. Dudarev, Nathalie Dupin, Gautam Ghosh, Tilmann Hickel, Pavel Korzhavyi, Jorge A. Muñoz, Ikuo Ohnuma
  Lambda transitions in materials science: Recent advances in CALPHAD and first-principles modelling [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 53
• M. Palumbo, B. Burton, A. Costa e Silva, B. Fultz, B. Grabowski, G. Grimvall, B. Hallstedt, O. Hellman, B. Lindahl, A. Schneider, P. E. A. Turchi, W. Xiong
  Thermodynamic modelling of crystalline unary phases [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 14
• Bässler, H.
  Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Photoconductors a Monte Carlo Simulation Study [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 1993, vol. 175, p. 15
• S. D. Baranovskii
  Theoretical description of charge transport in disordered organic semiconductors [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 487
• Karl-Heinz Ernst
  Molecular chirality at surfaces [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 2057
• Qimiao Si, Silke Paschen
  Quantum phase transitions in heavy fermion metals and Kondo insulators [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 425

physica status solidi (c)

• Yuh-Shiuan Liu, Zachary Lochner, Tsung-Ting Kao, Md. Mahbub Satter, Xiao-Hang Li, Jae-Hyun Ryou, Shyh-Chiang Shen, P. Douglas Yoder, Theeradetch Detchprohm, Russell D. Dupuis, Yong Wei, Hongen Xie, Alec Fischer, Fernando Ponce
  Optically pumped AlGaN quantum-well lasers at sub-250 nm grown by MOCVD on AlN substrates [E-MRS 2013 Spring Meeting – Symposium L]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 258
• Zhaoxia Bi, David Lindgren, B. Jonas Johansson, Martin Ek, L. Reine Wallenberg, Anders Gustafsson, Magnus T Borgström, Jonas Ohlsson, Bo Monemar, Lars Samuelson
  InN quantum dots on GaN nanowires grown by MOVPE [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 421
• Th. Speliotis, E. Makarona, F. Chouliaras, C. A. Charitidis, C. Tsamis, D. Niarchos
  Effect of deposition pressure and post deposition annealing on SmCo thin film properties [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c 2008, vol. 5, p. 3759
• M. A. Razali, M. Secchi, M. Bersani, R. M. Gwilliam
  Point defect engineering study of phosphorus ion implanted germanium [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 9
• Ikenoue, Takumi; Sakamoto, Shin-ichi; Inui, Yoshitaka
  Fabrication and characterization of Cu₂O, ZnO and ITO thin films toward oxide thin film solar cell by mist chemical vapor deposition method [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C, 10.1002/pssc.201300638
• Kiyeol Kwak, Kyoungah Cho, Sangsig Kim
  Role of ZnO nanoparticle-layers in enhancement of the performance of organic light-emitting diodes on plastics [E-MRS 2013 Spring Meeting – Symposium J]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 234
• Toshio Kamiya, Kenji Nomura, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
  Electronic structure of oxygen deficient amorphous oxide semiconductor a-InGaZnO_4–x : Optical analyses and first-principle calculations [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c 2008, vol. 5, p. 3098
• Troy Baker, Ashley Mayo, Zeinab Veisi, Peng Lu, Jason Schmitt
  High temperature HVPE of AlN on sapphire templates [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 373
• Sonal Padalkar, James R. Riley, Qiming Li, George T. Wang, Lincoln J. Lauhon
  Lift-out procedures for atom probe tomography targeting nanoscale features in core-shell nanowire heterostructures [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 656
• Tsubasa Nakashima, Kenichiro Takeda, Motoaki Iwaya, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Satoshi Kamiyama, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano
  Improvement of light extraction efficiency of 350-nm emission UV light-emitting diodes [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 836
• Esben Lund, Augustinas Galeckas, Edouard V. Monakhov, Bengt G. Svensson
  Optical and electrical properties of reactively sputtered Ag₂Cu₂O₃ films [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2012, vol. 9, p. 1590
• Krautz, Maria; Hosko, Josef; Skokov, K.; Svec, Peter; Stoica, Mihai; Schultz, Ludwig; Eckert, Jürgen; Gutfleisch, Oliver; Waske, Anja
  Pathways for novel magnetocaloric materials: A processing prospect [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C, 10.1002/pssc.201300637