We present the most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals from July.
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
- LaPierre, R. R.; Chia, A. C. E.; Gibson, S. J.; Haapamaki, C. M.; Boulanger, J.; Yee, R.; Kuyanov, P.; Zhang, J.; Tajik, N.; Jewell, N.; Rahman, K. M. A.
 III–V nanowire photovoltaics: Review of design for high efficiency [Review@RRL]
 Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 10.1002/pssr.201307109
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Thomas Traußnig, Stefan Topolovec, Kashif Nadeem, Dorothée Vinga Szabó, Heinz Krenn, Roland Würschum
 Magnetization of Fe-oxide based nanocomposite tuned by surface charging [Rapid Research Letter]
 Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2011, vol. 5, p. 150
- 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
- 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
- Jérôme Cayssol, Balázs Dóra, Ferenc Simon, Roderich Moessner
 Floquet topological insulators [Review@RRL]
 Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 101
- Norbert Koch
 Electronic structure of interfaces with conjugated organic materials [Review@RRL]
 Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2012, vol. 6, p. 277
- Takeshi Tanaka, Huaping Liu, Shunjiro Fujii, Hiromichi Kataura
 From metal/semiconductor separation to single-chirality separation of single-wall carbon nanotubes using gel [Review@RRL]
 Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2011, vol. 5, p. 301
physica status solidi (a)
- Chen, Ping; Qin, Mingsheng; Chen, Haijie; Yang, Chongying; Wang, Yaoming; Huang, Fuqiang
 Cr incorporation in CuGaS2 chalcopyrite: A new intermediate-band photovoltaic material with wide-spectrum solar absorption [Original Paper]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 1098
- B. Lüssem, M. Riede, K. Leo
 Doping of organic semiconductors [Review Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 9
- 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
- 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
- Thomas Walther, David J. Norris, Yang Qiu, Andrew Dobbie, Maksym Myronov, David R. Leadley
 The Stranski–Krastanow transition in SiGe epitaxy investigated by scanning transmission electron microscopy [Original Paper]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 187
- 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
- Weller, Dieter; Mosendz, Oleksandr; Parker, Gregory; Pisana, Simone; Santos, Tiffany S.
 L10 FePtX–Y media for heat-assisted magnetic recording [Review Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 1245
- F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup
 Single defect centres in diamond: A review [Review Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2006, vol. 203, p. 3207
- Khosroabadi, Akram A.; Gangopadhyay, Palash; Duong, Binh; Thomas, Jayan; Sigdel, Ajaya K.; Berry, Joseph J.; Gennett, Thomas; Peyghambarian, N.; Norwood, Robert A.
 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
- 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
- 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
- Hofmann, Simone; Furno, Mauro; Lüssem, Björn; Leo, Karl; Gather, Malte C.
 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
- E. William Cowell, Christopher C. Knutson, Nicholas A. Kuhta, William Stickle, Douglas A. Keszler, John F. Wager
 Engineering anisotropic dielectric response through amorphous laminate structures [Original Paper]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2012, vol. 209, p. 777
- Masoud Dahmardeh, Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali, Tanveer Saleh, Tee Min Hian, Mehran Vahdani Moghaddam, Alireza Nojeh, Kenichi Takahata
 High-power MEMS switch enabled by carbon-nanotube contact and shape-memory-alloy actuator [Advanced Materials Physics]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 631
- Cattin, L.; Bernède, J. C.; Morsli, M.
 Toward indium-free optoelectronic devices: Dielectric/metal/dielectric alternative transparent conductive electrode in organic photovoltaic cells [Feature Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 1047
physica status solidi (b)
- Angela B. Seddon
 Mid-infrared (IR) – A hot topic: The potential for using mid-IR light for non-invasive early detection of skin cancer in vivo [Past & Present]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 1020
- 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
- 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
- P. Hansmann, A. Toschi, G. Sangiovanni, T. Saha-Dasgupta, S. Lupi, M. Marsi, K. Held
 Mott–Hubbard transition in V2O3 revisited [Feature Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 1251
- 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
- C. Klingshirn
 ZnO: From basics towards applications [Review Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2007, vol. 244, p. 3027
- 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
- F. J. Manjón, R. Vilaplana, O. Gomis, E. Pérez-González, D. Santamaría-Pérez, V. Marín-Borrás, A. Segura, J. González, P. Rodríguez-Hernández, A. Muñoz, C. Drasar, V. Kucek, V. Muñoz-Sanjosé
 High-pressure studies of topological insulators Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, and Sb2Te3 [Feature Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 669
- 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
- Bässler, H.
 Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Photoconductors a Monte Carlo Simulation Study [Review Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 1993, vol. 175, p. 15
- K. A. Kolwas, G. Grabecki, S. Trushkin, J. Wróbel, M. Aleszkiewicz, Ł. Cywiński, T. Dietl, G. Springholz, G. Bauer
 Absence of nonlocal resistance in microstructures of PbTe quantum wells [Editor’s Choice]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 37
- 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
- Markus Heyde, Georg H. Simon, Leonid Lichtenstein
 Resolving oxide surfaces – From point and line defects to complex network structures [Feature Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 895
- Singh, Arvinder; Chandra, Amreesh
 Graphene and graphite oxide based composites for application in energy systems [Original Paper]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 1483
- Heshmat Noei, Lanying Jin, Hengshan Qiu, Mingchun Xu, Youkun Gao, Jianli Zhao, Max Kauer, Christof Wöll, Martin Muhler, Yuemin Wang
 Vibrational spectroscopic studies on pure and metal-covered metal oxide surfaces [Feature Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 1204
physica status solidi (c)
- G. Xiong, U. Pal, J. G. Serrano, K. B. Ucer, R. T. Williams
 Photoluminesence and FTIR study of ZnO nanoparticles: the impurity and defect perspective [Original Paper]
 physica status solidi c 2006, vol. 3, p. 3577
- Toshio Kamiya, Kenji Nomura, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
 Electronic structure of oxygen deficient amorphous oxide semiconductor a-InGaZnO4–x : Optical analyses and first-principle calculations [Contributed Article]
 physica status solidi c 2008, vol. 5, p. 3098
- Zeguo Tang, Qiming Liu, Ishwor Khatri, Ryo Ishikawa, Keiji Ueno, Hajime Shirai
 Optical properties and carrier transport in c-Si/conductive PEDOT:PSS(GO) composite heterojunctions [Contributed Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi C 2012, vol. 9, p. 2075
- Sakib M. Muhtadi, S. M. Sajjad Hossain, Ashraful G. Bhuiyan, K. Sasamoto, A. Hashimoto, A. Yamamoto
 Quantum confinement effect on 2DEG in InGaN/InN HEMT with an interfacial layer [Contributed Article]
 physica status solidi c 2011, vol. 8, p. 2288
- Naoya Aihara, Hideaki Araki, Akiko Takeuchi, Kazuo Jimbo, Hironori Katagiri
 Fabrication of Cu2SnS3 thin films by sulfurization of evaporated Cu-Sn precursors for solar cells [Contributed Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1086
- 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
- A. N. Nazarov, S. O. Gordienko, P. M. Lytvyn, V. V. Strelchuk, A. S. Nikolenko, A. V. Vasin, A. V. Rusavsky, V. S. Lysenko, V. P. Popov
 Characterization of graphene layers by Kelvin probe force microscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy [EMRS-G – Contributed Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1172
- Magdalena Woińska1, Karolina Z. Milowska, Jacek A. Majewski
 Electronic structure of graphene functionalized with boron and nitrogen [EMRS-G – Contributed Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1167
- Takahiro Kawamura, Yoshihiro Kangawa, Koichi Kakimoto
 Molecular dynamics simulation of thermal conductivity of GaN/AlN quantum dot superlattices [Contributed Article]
 physica status solidi c 2007, vol. 4, p. 2289
- U. Jahn, E. Calleja, J. Ristić, A. Trampert, C. Rivera
 Spatially resolved luminescence spectroscopy of single GaN/(Al,Ga)N quantum disks [Contributed Article]
 physica status solidi c 2008, vol. 5, p. 2164
- Hisashi Saito, Yoshiharu Takada, Masahiko Kuraguchi, Miki Yumoto, Kunio Tsuda
 Over 550 V breakdown voltage of InAlN/GaN HEMT on Si [Contributed Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 824
- 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
- Masami Aono, Koichiro Yoshitake, Hisashi Miyazaki
 XPS depth profile study of CZTS thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis [Contributed Article]
 Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1058
- 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

















