Rolith has announced that it has received an exclusive license to methods of micro and nano-patterning substrates to make transparent conductive electrodes.

Creating p-n junctions in graphene films
Researchers create junctions, essential to electronics fabrication, by transferring graphene films onto patterned monolayer substrates.

Advanced Materials Physics: A transparent view at UC Berkeley
Researchers have developed a transparent diode with copper-alloyed zinc sulfide as p-type conducting material.

Research discovery could revolutionise semiconductor manufacture
A new method of manufacturing the smallest structures in electronics could make their manufacture many times quicker, allowing for cheaper semiconductors.

Perovskite oxides: Group demonstrates technique for engineering ‘perfect’ heterointerfaces
Scientists engineer a chemically stable and atomically sharp lanthanum aluminate monolayer between LaAlO3 and strontium titanate heterostructures.

October Highlights from physica status solidi
Topological insulators, nanowires, and thin films – these and more in October’s physics highlights.

Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for September 2012
Most downloaded papers from the physica status, including as the ‘pss classic’ on amorphous germanium by Jan Tauc from 1966 and much more.

Honoring Stanford R. Ovshinsky
A special issue on phase-change materials dedicated to the “Edison of our age”.

Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for August 2012
The most downloaded papers from the the pss family, spanning hot subject areas such as organic and inorganic semiconductor systems.

September Highlights from physica status solidi
Chirality, Chalcogenides, and light-extraction – these and more in September’s physics highlights.