RRAMs, magnetic microwires, and spin Hall effects – these and more in our March’s physics highlights.

Three "star physicists" to become new Humboldt Professors in Germany
New Humboldt Professorships have been awarded, among them three prominent international physicists working on electronic, magnetic and superconducting materials.

Designing metamaterials with genetic algorithms
Penn state engineers create specially formed material that can provide custom broadband absorption in the infrared using genetic algorithms.

Fluorescence shows real-time nanoparticle biodegradation
New method allows researchers to directly measure nanoparticle degradation in real time within biological environments.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for March 2014
We present the most downloaded papers of the pss journal family from March 2014.

Superior properties but prone to corrosion
Australian scientists found cause and effect of nanostructured bainitic steel’s tendency to corrosion susceptibility.

Setting nanomagnet domain walls into motion
Domain walls can be synchronously displaced using magnetic field pulses.

Electrically tunable bulk ferromagnets
A team has proposed to go beyond the traditional definition of magnetoelectric phenomenon to use reversible electrochemistry as a tool to control magnetism.

Iron carbide nanoparticles: a new platform for tumor theranostics
New core/shell structure nanoparticles have been reported by a team led by Peking University researchers.

Book review: Handbook of Organic Materials for Optical and (Opto)Electronic Devices
Antonio Facchetti reviews the first edition of the Handbook of Organic Materials for Optical and (Opto)Electronic Devices.