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2023 Rising Stars Collection

We proudly present the 2023 APL Rising Stars Collection, featuring notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising Stars Award selection committee as particularly outstanding among the many excellent candidates for the award. For details and how to submit for next year’s award, please see here.

2023 Rising Star Award:

Stochastic Domain Wall-Magnetic Tunnel Junction Artificial Neurons for Noise-Resilient Spiking Neural Networks

Thomas Leonard, Samuel Liu, Harrison Jin, Jean Anne C. Incorvia, Appl. Phys. Lett. 122, 262406 (2023)

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

Fano-qubits for quantum devices with enhanced isolation and bandwidth

Deepanshu Trivedi; Leonid Belostotski; Arjuna Madanayake; Alex Krasnok

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0151047

MAGNETICS AND SPINTRONICS

Stochastic domain wall-magnetic tunnel junction artificial neurons for noise-resilient spiking neural networks

Thomas Leonard; Samuel Liu; Harrison Jin; Jean Anne C. Incorvia

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0152211

PHONONIC, ACOUSTIC, AND THERMAL PROPERTIES

A dual-domain 3 ω method for measuring the in-plane thermal conductivity of high-conductive thin films

Paiting Liu; Yue Wen; Chun Fei Siah; Mei Er Pam; Baochang Xu; Aaron Voon-Yew Thean; Yeow Kheng Lim; Sunmi Shin

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0154177

ADVANCED MATERIALS

Employing high-temperature-grown SrZrO₃ buffer to enhance the electron mobility in La:BaSnO₃-based heterostructures

Prosper Ngabonziza; Jisung Park; Wilfried Sigle; Peter A. van Aken; Jochen Mannhart; Darrell G. Schlom

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0148467

MAGNETICS AND SPINTRONICS

Electric-field driven source of photocarriers for tunable electron spin polarization in InGaAs quantum dots

Hiroto Kise; Satoshi Hiura; Soyoung Park; Junichi Takayama; Kazuhisa Sueoka; Akihiro Murayama

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0151467

SEMICONDUCTORS

Cross-plane thermal conductivity of h -BN thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

Gustavo A. Alvarez; Joyce Christiansen-Salameh; Abhijit Biswas; Anand B. Puthirath; Eugene Jeong; Jinha Kwon; Jaejun Lee; Tia Gray; Robert Vajtai; Pulickel M. Ajayan; Zhiting Tian

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0149508

ADVANCED MATERIALS

Machine learning quantum-chemical bond scission in thermosets under extreme deformation

Zheng Yu; Nicholas E. Jackson

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0150085

DEVICE PHYSICS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

NiO junction termination extension for high-voltage ( > 3 kV) Ga₂O₃ devices

Ming Xiao; Boyan Wang; Joseph Spencer; Yuan Qin; Matthew Porter; Yunwei Ma; Yifan Wang; Kohei Sasaki; Marko Tadjer; Yuhao Zhang

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0142229

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRONICS

A flux-tunable YBa₂Cu₃O₇ quantum interference microwave circuit

Kevin Uhl; Daniel Hackenbeck; Christoph Füger; Reinhold Kleiner; Dieter Koelle; Daniel Bothner

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0146524

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

Trap-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with improved rf tolerance for trapped-ion qubit state readout

Benedikt Hampel; Daniel H. Slichter; Dietrich Leibfried; Richard P. Mirin; Sae Woo Nam; Varun B. Verma

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0145077

SOLUTION-PROCESSABLE ELECTRONICS AND PHOTONICS

Ferroelectric dipole-MAPbI₃ coupled x-ray detector

Ziyao Zhu; Huiwen Chen; Bo Zhao; Weixiong Huang; Qianqian Lin; Xuefeng Yu; Yunlong Li

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0147065

MAGNETICS AND SPINTRONICS

Observation of coherently coupled cation spin dynamics in an insulating ferrimagnetic oxide

C. Klewe; P. Shafer; J. E. Shoup; C. Kons; Y. Pogoryelov; R. Knut; B. A. Gray; H.-M. Jeon; B. M. Howe; O. Karis; Y. Suzuki; E. Arenholz; D. A. Arena; S. Emori

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0141869

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLIED PHYSICS