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

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
• Gregor Koblmüller, Gerhard Abstreiter
  Growth and properties of InGaAs nanowires on silicon [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 11
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Judy J. Cha, Kristie J. Koski, Yi Cui
  Topological insulator nanostructures [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 15
• Jérôme Cayssol, Balázs Dóra, Ferenc Simon, Roderich Moessner
  Floquet topological insulators [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 101
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• Ke Chu, Chengchang Jia
  Enhanced strength in bulk graphene–copper composites [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2014, vol. 211, p. 184
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Claudia Rödl, André Schleife
  Photoemission spectra and effective masses of n- and p-type oxide semiconductors from first principles: ZnO, CdO, SnO₂, MnO, and NiO [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2014, vol. 211, p. 74
• Suryawanshi, Mahesh; Shin, Seung Wook; Bae, Woo RI; Gurav, Kishor; Kang, Myun Gil; Agawane, Ganesh; Patil, Pramod; Yun, Jae Ho; Lee, Jeong Yong; Moholkar, Annasaheb; Kim, Jin Hyeok
  Kesterite CZTS nanocrystals: pH-dependent synthesis [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.201330384
• N. Narendran, Y. Gu, J. P. Freyssinier-Nova, Y. Zhu
  Extracting phosphor-scattered photons to improve white LED efficiency [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.200510015

physica status solidi (b)

• Kristian Sell, Ingo Barke, Stefan Polei, Christian Schumann, Viola von Oeynhausen, Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer
  Surface photovoltage of Ag nanoparticles and Au chains on Si(111) [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2010, vol. 247, p. 1087
• 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
• C. Klingshirn
  ZnO: From basics towards applications [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2007, vol. 244, p. 3027
• S. D. Baranovskii
  Theoretical description of charge transport in disordered organic semiconductors [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 487
• Ben Wortmann, Kolja Mende, Stefanie Duffe, Niklas Grönhagen, Bernd von Issendorff, Heinz Hövel
  Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of supported mass selected silver clusters [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2010, vol. 247, p. 1116
• Karl-Heinz Ernst
  Molecular chirality at surfaces [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 2057
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• G. Tkachov, E. M. Hankiewicz
  Spin-helical transport in normal and superconducting topological insulators [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 215
• Markus Morgenstern
  Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of graphene on insulating substrates [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2011, vol. 248, p. 2423
• 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

physica status solidi (c)

• Baikui Li, Qimeng Jiang, Shenghou Liu, Cheng Liu, Kevin J. Chen
  Degradation of transient OFF-state leakage current in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs induced by ON-state gate overdrive [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 928
• Hiroki Ogawa, Takuya Okazaki, Hayao Kasai, Kenta Hara, Yuki Notani, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tohru Nakamura
  Normally-off GaN MOSFETs with high-k dielectric CeO₂ films deposited by RF sputtering [E-MRS 2013 Spring Meeting – Symposium L]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 302
• 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
• 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
• Hideaki Araki, Yuki Kubo, Kazuo Jimbo, Win Shwe Maw, Hironori Katagiri, Makoto Yamazaki, Koichiro Oishi, Akiko Takeuchi
  Preparation of Cu₂ZnSnS₄ thin films by sulfurization of co-electroplated Cu-Zn-Sn precursors [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c 2009, vol. 6, p. 1266
• Tooru Tanaka, Daisuke Kawasaki, Mitsuhiro Nishio, Qixin Guo, Hiroshi Ogawa
  Fabrication of Cu₂ZnSnS₄ thin films by co-evaporation [Original Paper]
  physica status solidi c 2006, vol. 3, p. 2844
• 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
• Cai Liu, Hongbo Wang, Hassanet Sodabanlu, Masakazu Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Nakano
  Void formation during GaN MOVPE on Si (111) employing low temperature AlN interlayers [E-MRS 2013 Spring Meeting – Symposium L]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 293
• Shaoxin Zhu, Jianchang Yan, Yun Zhang, Jianping Zeng, Zhao Si, Peng Dong, Jinmin Li, Junxi Wang
  The effect of delta-doping on Si-doped Al rich n-AlGaN on AlN template grown by MOCVD [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 466
• Pascal André, Peter Reece, Jens W. Tomm, Jean-Charles Ribierre, Iwan Moreels
  Semiconductor Nanostructures towards Electronic and Optoelectronic Device Applications [E-MRS 2013 Spring Meeting – Symposium J]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 193
• 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
• 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
• Fatima Asif, Hung-Chi Chen, Antwon Coleman, Iftikhar Ahmad, Bin Zhang, Joe Dion, Ahmad Heidari, Vinod Adivarahan, Asif Khan
  Pseudomorphic Al_xGa_1-xN MQW based deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes over sapphire [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 798
• N. Suzuki, S. Ohira, M. Tanaka, T. Sugawara, K. Nakajima, T. Shishido
  Fabrication and characterization of transparent conductive Sn-doped β-Ga₂O₃ single crystal [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c 2007, vol. 4, p. 2310
• Raphael Brown, Abdullah Al-Khalidi, Douglas Macfarlane, Sanna Taking, Gary Ternent, Iain Thayne, Edward Wasige
  Novel high performance AlGaN/GaN based enhancement-mode metal-oxide semiconductor high electron mobility transistor [Invited Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 844