We present the most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals from August.

 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
• 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
• 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
• Helin Cao, Suyang Xu, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Jifa Tian, Deepak Pandey, M. Zahid Hasan, Yong P. Chen
  Structural and electronic properties of highly doped topological insulator Bi₂Se₃ crystals [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 133
• 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
• S. H. Yao, B. Zhou, M. H. Lu, Z. K. Liu, Y. B. Chen, J. G. Analytis, C. Brüne, W. H. Dang, S.-K. Mo, Z.-X. Shen, I. R. Fisher, L. W. Molenkamp, H. L. Peng, Z. Hussain, Y. L. Chen
  Observing electronic structures on ex-situ grown topological insulator thin films [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2013, vol. 7, p. 130
• 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
• K. Prashanthi, P. M. Shaibani, A. Sohrabi, T. S. Natarajan, T. Thundat
  Nanoscale magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic BiFeO₃ nanowires [Rapid Research Letter]
  Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2012, vol. 6, p. 244

 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Grundmann, Marius; Schein, Friedrich-Leonhard; Lorenz, Michael; Böntgen, Tammo; Lenzner, Jörg; von Wenckstern, Holger
  Cuprous iodide – a p-type transparent semiconductor: history and novel applications [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2013, vol. 210, p. 1671
• 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
• Chalapathi, U.; Jayasree, Y.; Uthanna, S.; Sundara Raja, V.
  Effect of annealing temperature on the properties of spray deposited Cu₂SnS₃ thin films [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi A, 10.1002/pssa.201329157
• 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
• 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
• F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup
  Single defect centres in diamond: A review [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi A 2006, vol. 203, p. 3207

 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
• Morgenstern, Karina; Lorente, Nicolas; Rieder, Karl-Heinz
  Controlled manipulation of single atoms and small molecules using the scanning tunnelling microscope [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2013, vol. 250, p. 1671
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Karl-Heinz Ernst
  Molecular chirality at surfaces [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 2057
• Ado Jorio, Erlon H. Martins Ferreira, Marcus V. O. Moutinho, Fernando Stavale, Carlos A. Achete, Rodrigo B. Capaz
  Measuring disorder in graphene with the G and D bands [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2010, vol. 247, p. 2980
• 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
• Boonchun, Adisak; Lambrecht, Walter R. L.
  Electronic structure of defects and doping in ZnO: Oxygen vacancy and nitrogen doping [Editor’s Choice]
  Phys. Status Solidi B, 10.1002/pssb.201300010
• Bässler, H.
  Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Photoconductors a Monte Carlo Simulation Study [Review Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 1993, vol. 175, p. 15
• 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
• Price, Miles D. S.; Cruz-Silva, Eduardo; Luiza Mariano Torres Costa, Ana; Morais de Vasconcelos, Fabrìcio; Girão, Eduardo Costa; Zhang, S.B.; Meunier, Vincent
  Electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbon barbell-shaped heterojunctions [Original Paper]
  Phys. Status Solidi B, 10.1002/pssb.201349224
• Janik Wolters, Günter Kewes, Andreas W. Schell, Nils Nüsse, Max Schoengen, Bernd Löchel, Tobias Hanke, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Thomas Aichele, Oliver Benson
  Coupling of single nitrogen-vacancy defect centers in diamond nanocrystals to optical antennas and photonic crystal cavities [Editor’s Choice]
  Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, vol. 249, p. 918

 physica status solidi (c)

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Takumi Aizawa, Kunihiko Tanaka, Kota Tagami, Hisao Uchiki
  Investigation of ZnO:Al window layer of Cu₂ZnSnS₄ thin film solar cells prepared by non-vacuum processing [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1050
• 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
• Geng, Wei; Kostcheev, Sergei; Sartel, Corinne; Sallet, Vincent; Molinari, Michael; Simonetti, Olivier; Lérondel, Gilles; Giraudet, Louis; Couteau, Christophe
  Ohmic contact on single ZnO nanowires grown by MOCVD [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C, 10.1002/pssc.201200984
• Salomé Tallegas, Thierry Baron, Guillaume Gay, Claire Aggrafeil, Billel Salhi, Thierry Chevolleau, Gilles Cunge, Ahmad Bsiesy, Raluca Tiron, Xavier Chevalier, Christophe Navarro, Karim Aissou, Issei Otsuka, Sami Halila, Sébastien Fort, Redouane Borsali
  Block copolymer technology applied to nanoelectronics [Invited Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1195
• Apostoluk, Aleksandra; Zhu, Yao; Canut, Bruno; Masenelli, Bruno; Delaunay, Jean-Jacques; Znajdek, Katarzyna; Sibiński, Maciej
  Investigation of luminescent properties of ZnO nanoparticles for their use as a down-shifting layer on solar cells [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C, 10.1002/pssc.201200950
• 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
• Ryuji Kaigawa, Satomi Hirata, Muneo Sasaki, R. Klenk
  Rapid direct preparation of Cu₂ZnSn(S_1–x,Se_x)₄ films using microwave irradiation [Contributed Article]
  Phys. Status Solidi C 2013, vol. 10, p. 1012