Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles — May 2012

Spin Accumulation and Spin Lifetime in p-Type Germanium at Room Temperature

Satoshi Iba, Hidekazu Saito, Aurelie Spiesser, Suguru Watanabe, Ron Jansen, Shinji Yuasa, and Koji Ando
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 053004
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Frequency and Time Dependent Microwave Assisted Switching Behaviors of Co/Pt Nanodots

Satoshi Okamoto, Nobuaki Kikuchi, Jin Li, Osamu Kitakami, Takehito Shimatsu, and Hajime Aoi
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 043001
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Diffusion and Stability of Hydrogen in Mg-Doped GaN: A Density Functional Study

Ji-Sang Park and Kee Joo Chang
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 065601
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Micro-Photoluminescence Study on the Influence of Oxidation on Stacking Faults in 4H-SiC Epilayers

Hikaru Yamagata, Shuhei Yagi, Yasuto Hijikata, and Hiroyuki Yaguchi
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 051302
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Flexible Microstrain Sensors Based on Piezoelectric ZnO Microwire Network Structure

Ping Li, Qingliang Liao, Zheng Zhang, Yue Zhang, Yunhua Huang, and Siwei Ma
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 061101
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High-Power Continuous-Wave Operation of BeZnCdSe Single-Quantum-Well Green Laser Diodes

Sumiko Fujisaki, Jun-ichi Kasai, Ryouichi Akimoto, Shigehisa Tanaka, Shinji Tsuji, Toshifumi Hasama, and Hiroshi Ishikawa
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 062101
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High Mobility in a Stable Transparent Perovskite Oxide

Hyung Joon Kim, Useong Kim, Hoon Min Kim, Tai Hoon Kim, Hyo Sik Mun, Byung-Gu Jeon, Kwang Taek Hong, Woong-Jhae Lee, Chanjong Ju, Kee Hoon Kim, and Kookrin Char
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 061102
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Preparation of a Freestanding AlN Substrate from a Thick AlN Layer Grown by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy on a Bulk AlN Substrate Prepared by Physical Vapor Transport

Yoshinao Kumagai, Yuki Kubota, Toru Nagashima, Toru Kinoshita, Rafael Dalmau, Raoul Schlesser, Baxter Moody, Jinqiao Xie, Hisashi Murakami, Akinori Koukitu, and Zlatko Sitar
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 055504
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Resonant Tunneling Transport in a GaN/AlN Multiple-Quantum-Well Structure

Salam Sakr, Yulia Kotsar, Maria Tchernycheva, Elias Warde, Nathalie Isac, Eva Monroy, and François H. Julien
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 052203
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AlGaN/GaN-on-Silicon Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor High-Electron-Mobility Transistor with Breakdown Voltage of 800 V and On-State Resistance of 3 mΩ·cm² Using a Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Compatible Gold-Free Process

Xinke Liu, Chunlei Zhan, Kwok Wai Chan, Wei Liu, Leng Seow Tan, Kevin Jing Chen, and Yee-Chia Yeo
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 066501
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State-of-the-Art AlGaN/GaN-on-Si Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors with Dual Field Plates

Jae-Gil Lee, Bong-Ryeol Park, Ho-Jung Lee, Minseong Lee, Kwang-Seok Seo, and Ho-Young Cha
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 066502
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A Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor with a Cantilevered Carbon Nanotube Gate

Naoyuki Matsunaga, Takayuki Arie, and Seiji Akita
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 065101
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AlN/GaN Short-Period Superlattice Coherently Grown on 6H-SiC(0001) Substrates by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Ryosuke Kikuchi, Hironori Okumura, Mitsuaki Kaneko, Tsunenobu Kimoto, and Jun Suda
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 051002
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Efficient Ultraviolet Second-Harmonic Generation from a Walk-Off-Compensating β-BaB₂O₄ Device with a New Structure Fabricated by Room-Temperature Bonding

Kenjiro Hara, Shinnosuke Matsumoto, Tomomi Onda, Wataru Nagashima, and Ichiro Shoji
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 052201
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21.7 kV 4H-SiC PiN Diode with a Space-Modulated Junction Termination Extension

Hiroki Niwa, Jun Suda, and Tsunenobu Kimoto
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 064001
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Signature of Coherent Transport in Epitaxial Spinel-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Probed by Shot Noise Measurement

Takahiro Tanaka, Tomonori Arakawa, Kensaku Chida, Yoshitaka Nishihara, Daichi Chiba, Kensuke Kobayashi, Teruo Ono, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Shinya Kasai, and Seiji Mitani
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 053003
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A Self-Aligned InGaAs Quantum-Well Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor Fabricated through a Lift-Off-Free Front-End Process

Jianqiang Lin, Tae-Woo Kim, Dimitri A. Antoniadis, and Jesús A. del Alamo
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 064002
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X-ray Microbeam Three-Dimensional Topography Imaging and Strain Analysis of Basal-Plane Dislocations and Threading Edge Dislocations in 4H-SiC

Ryohei Tanuma, Daisuke Mori, Isaho Kamata, and Hidekazu Tsuchida
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 061301
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Enhanced Carrier Generation in Nb-Doped SnO₂ Thin Films Grown on Strain-Inducing Substrates

Shoichiro Nakao, Naoomi Yamada, Yasushi Hirose, and Tetsuya Hasegawa
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 061201
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Room-Temperature Electroluminescence from Ge Quantum Dots Embedded in Photonic Crystal Microcavities

Toshiki Tsuboi, Xuejun Xu, Jinsong Xia, Noritaka Usami, Takuya Maruizumi, and Yasuhiro Shiraki
Appl. Phys. Express 5 (2012) 052101
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