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

physica status solidi (RRL)

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• A. Mazid Munshi, Helge Weman
  Advances in semiconductor nanowire growth on graphene [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 713
• Jérôme Cayssol, Balázs Dóra, Ferenc Simon, Roderich Moessner
  Floquet topological insulators [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 101
• Yongkwan Dong, Hsin Wang, George S. Nolas
  Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of Cu excess Cu₂ZnSnSe₄ [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 61
• 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
• Rakhi Grover, Ritu Srivastava, M. N. Kamalasanan, D. S. Mehta
  Light outcoupling efficiency enhancement in organic light emitting diodes using an organic scattering layer [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 81
• Judy J. Cha, Kristie J. Koski, Yi Cui
  Topological insulator nanostructures [Review@RRL]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 15
• Y. Saito, J. Tominaga, P. Fons, A. V. Kolobov, T. Nakano
  Ab-initio calculations and structural studies of (SiTe)₂(Sb₂Te₃)_n (n: 1, 2, 4 and 6) phase-change superlattice films [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2014, vol. 8, p. 302

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
• B. Lüssem, M. Riede, K. Leo
  Doping of organic semiconductors [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 9
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Joachim Piprek
  Efficiency droop in nitride-based light-emitting diodes [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2010, vol. 207, p. 2217
• Gabi Schierning
  Silicon nanostructures for thermoelectric devices: A review of the current state of the art [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2014, vol. 211, p. 1235
• Benjamin Colombeau, Baonian Guo, Hans-Joachim Gossmann, Fareen Khaja, Nilay Pradhan, Andrew Waite, K. V. Rao, Christos Thomidis, Kyu-Ha Shim, Todd Henry, Naushad Variam
  Advanced CMOS devices: Challenges and implant solutions [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2014, vol. 211, p. 101
• Vauche, Laura; Dubois, Jérôme; Laparre, Aurélie; Mollica, Fabien; Bodeux, Romain; Delbos, Sébastien; Ruiz, Carmen M.; Pasquinelli, Marcel; Bahi, Farid; de Monsabert, Thomas Goislard; Jaime, Salvador; Bodnar, Sylvie; Grand, Pierre-Philippe
  Cu₂ZnSnSe₄ thin film solar cells above 5% conversion efficiency from electrodeposited Cu Sn Zn precursors [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.201300630
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jonathan Grandidier, Raymond A. Weitekamp, Michael G. Deceglie, Dennis M. Callahan, Corsin Battaglia, Colton R. Bukowsky, Christophe Ballif, Robert H. Grubbs, Harry A. Atwater
  Solar cell efficiency enhancement via light trapping in printable resonant dielectric nanosphere arrays [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 255
• Roland Haitz, Jeffrey Y. Tsao
  Solid-state lighting: ‘The case’ 10 years after and future prospects [Expert Opinion]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2011, vol. 208, p. 17

physica status solidi (b)

• 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
• 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, 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
• E.W. Piotrowski, J. Sładkowski, J. Syska, S. Zajac
  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
• S. D. Baranovskii
  Theoretical description of charge transport in disordered organic semiconductors [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2014, vol. 251, p. 487
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Karl-Heinz Ernst
  Molecular chirality at surfaces [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 2057
• 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
• V. Zólyomi, J. Koltai, J. Kürti
  Resonance Raman spectroscopy of graphite and graphene [Feature Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2011, vol. 248, p. 2435
• 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
• C. Klingshirn
  ZnO: From basics towards applications [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2007, vol. 244, p. 3027

physica status solidi (c)

• Yoichi Sato, Jun Akiyama, Takunori Taira
  Fundamental investigations in orientation control process for anisotropic laser ceramics [Invited Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 896
• A. Somoza, C. E. Macchi, R. N. Lumley, I. J. Polmear, A. Dupasquier, R. Ferragut
  Role of vacancies during creep and secondary precipitation in an underaged Al-Cu-Mg-Ag alloy [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c 2007, vol. 4, p. 3473
• Guechi, Abla; Chegaar, Mohamed; Merabet, Abdelali
  Influence of solar radiation on the performance of organic solar cell [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C, 10.1002/pssc.201300594
• D. Gogova, G. Rudko, D. Siche
  Growth and structural, optical and electrical properties study of bulk GaN [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c 2012, vol. 9, p. 1048
• 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
• 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
• Mereu, R. A.; Marchionna, S.; Donne, A. Le; Ciontea, L.; Binetti, S.; Acciarri, M.
  Optical and electrical studies of transparent conductive AZO and ITO sputtered thin films for CIGS photovoltaics [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C, 10.1002/pssc.201300631
• Toshiki Hikosaka, Hisashi Yoshida, Naoharu Sugiyama, Shinya Nunoue
  Reduction of threading dislocation by recoating GaN island surface with SiN for high-efficiency GaN-on-Si-based LED [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2014, vol. 11, p. 617
• Monishka Rita Narayan, Jai Singh
  Roles of binding energy and diffusion length of singlet and triplet excitons in organic heterojunction solar cells [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2012, vol. 9, p. 2386
• Adam R. Boyd, Stefan Degroote, Maarten Leys, Frank Schulte, Olaf Rockenfeller, Markus Luenenbuerger, Marianne Germain, Johannes Kaeppeler, Michael Heuken
  Growth of GaN/AlGaN on 200 mm diameter silicon (111) wafers by MOCVD [Contributed Article]
  physica status solidi c, 10.1002/pssc.200880925
• Akio Yamamoto, Md. R. Islam, Ting-Ting Kang, Akihiro Hashimoto
  Recent advances in InN-based solar cells: status and challenges in InGaN and InAlN solar cells [Invited Article]
  physica status solidi c 2010, vol. 7, p. 1309
• M. Khardani, M. Bouaïcha, B. Bessaïs
  Bruggeman effective medium approach for modelling optical properties of porous silicon: comparison with experiment [Original Paper]
  physica status solidi c 2007, vol. 4, p. 1986