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

physica status solidi (RRL)

• Binghai Yan, Delin Zhang, Claudia Felser
  Topological surface states of Bi₂Se₃ coexisting with Se vacancies [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 148
• 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
• 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
• A. Mazid Munshi, Helge Weman
  Advances in semiconductor nanowire growth on graphene [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 713
• 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
• Jérôme Cayssol, Balázs Dóra, Ferenc Simon, Roderich Moessner
  Floquet topological insulators [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 101
• 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
• 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
• Judy J. Cha, Kristie J. Koski, Yi Cui
  Topological insulator nanostructures [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 15
• 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
• 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
• Zhang, Xinyu; Hargreaves, Stuart; Wan, Yimao; Cuevas, Andres
  Surface passivation of crystalline silicon by sputter deposited hydrogenated amorphous silicon [rrl solar]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 10.1002/pssr.201308253

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
• V. N. Jmerik, E. V. Lutsenko, S. V. Ivanov
  Plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy of AlGaN heterostructures for deep-ultraviolet optically pumped lasers [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 439
• Pushpa Raj Pudasaini, Arturo A. Ayon
  Nanostructured thin film silicon solar cells efficiency improvement using gold nanoparticles [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2012, vol. 209, p. 1475
• M. Benyoucef, M. Usman, T. Alzoubi, J. P. Reithmaier
  Pre-patterned silicon substrates for the growth of III–V nanostructures [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2012, vol. 209, p. 2402
• 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
• 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
• Kaune, Gunar; Hartnauer, Stefan; Scheer, Roland
  In situ XRD investigation of Cu₂ZnSnSe₄ thin film growth by thermal co-evaporation [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.201330340
• B. Lüssem, M. Riede, K. Leo
  Doping of organic semiconductors [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 9
• 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
• Jin Yan, M. Jasim Uddin, Tarik J. Dickens, Deborah E. Daramola, David Olawale, Okenwa I. Okoli
  Tailoring the efficiency of 3D wire-shaped photovoltaic cells (WPVCs) by functionalization of solid–liquid interfacial properties [Advanced Materials Physics]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 2535
• Jun Liu, Jing Wang, Saijun Huang, Hsi-An Chen, Gufeng He
  Improved efficiency of blue phosphorescence organic light-emitting diodes with irregular stepwise-doping emitting layers [Editor’s Choice]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 489
• 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
• 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
• Carolin M. Fella, Alexander R. Uhl, Yaroslav E. Romanyuk, Ayodhya N. Tiwari
  Cu₂ZnSnSe₄ absorbers processed from solution deposited metal salt precursors under different selenization conditions [Editor’s Choice]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2012, vol. 209, p. 1043
• Akram A. Khosroabadi, Palash Gangopadhyay, Binh Duong, Jayan Thomas, Ajaya K. Sigdel, Joseph J. Berry, Thomas Gennett, N. Peyghambarian, Robert A. Norwood
  Fabrication, electrical and optical properties of silver, indium tin oxide (ITO), and indium zinc oxide (IZO) nanostructure arrays [Advanced Materials Physics]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 831

physica status solidi (b)

• 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
• 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
• Markus Morgenstern
  Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of graphene on insulating substrates [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2011, vol. 248, p. 2423
• T. Hammerschmidt, I. A. Abrikosov, D. Alfè, S. G. Fries, L. Höglund, M. H. G. Jacobs, J. Koßmann, X.-G. Lu, G. Paul
  Including the effects of pressure and stress in thermodynamic functions [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 81
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Karina Morgenstern, Nicolas Lorente, Karl-Heinz Rieder
  Controlled manipulation of single atoms and small molecules using the scanning tunnelling microscope [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 1671
• Karl-Heinz Ernst
  Molecular chirality at surfaces [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 2057
• Hübner, Jens; Berski, Fabian; Dahbashi, Ramin; Oestreich, Michael
  The rise of spin noise spectroscopy in semiconductors: From acoustic to GHz frequencies [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B, 10.1002/pssb.201350291
• Tauc, J.; Grigorovici, R.; Vancu, A.
  Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Amorphous Germanium [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 1966, vol. 15, p. 627
• Hidetsugu Shiozawa, Stephan Puchegger, S. Ravi P. Silva, Thomas Pichler
  Structural properties of mirrored carbon spirals as revealed by scanning electron microscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 2737
• Ladislav Kavan, Jun-Ho Yum, Michael Graetzel
  Application of graphene-based nanostructures in dye-sensitized solar cells [Invited Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 2643

physica status solidi (c)

• K. V. Rao, Fareen Adeni Khaja, Chi-Nung Ni, Shankar Muthukrishnan, Andrew Darlak, Jianxin Lei, Adam Brand, Naushad Variam
  NMOS contact resistivity reduction with implants into silicides [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 174
• Yunyou Lu, Shu Yang, Qimeng Jiang, Zhikai Tang, Baikui Li, Kevin J. Chen
  Characterization of V_T-instability in enhancement-mode Al₂O₃-AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMTs [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1397
• Andreas Waag, Xue Wang, Sönke Fündling, Johannes Ledig, Milena Erenburg, Richard Neumann, Mohamed Al Suleiman, Stephan Merzsch, Jiandong Wei, Shunfeng Li, Hergo H. Wehmann, Werner Bergbauer, Martin Straßburg, Achim Trampert, Uwe Jahn, Henning Riechert
  The nanorod approach: GaN NanoLEDs for solid state lighting [Invited Article]
  physica status solidi c 2011, vol. 8, p. 2296
• Cleuson de Menezes Atayde, Ioshiaki Doi
  Highly stable hydrophilic surfaces of PDMS thin layer obtained by UV radiation and oxygen plasma treatments [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c 2010, vol. 7, p. 189
• Ronny Kirste, Seiji Mita, Marc P. Hoffmann, Lindsay Hussey, Wei Guo, Isaac Bryan, Zachary Bryan, James Tweedie, Michael Gerhold, Axel Hoffmann, Ramón Collazo, Zlatko Sitar
  Properties of AlN based lateral polarity structures [E-MRS 2013 Spring Meeting – Symposium L]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 261
• Noritoshi Maeda, Hideki Hirayama
  Realization of high-efficiency deep-UV LEDs using transparent p-AlGaN contact layer [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1521
• G. Gurieva, M. Guc, L. I. Bruk, V. Izquierdo-Roca, A. Pérez Rodríguez, S. Schorr, E. Arushanov
  Cu₂ZnSnS₄ thin films grown by spray pyrolysis: characterization by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1082