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23 September 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Physical Sciences               Plasma nitriding induced growth of Pt-nanowire arrays as high performance electrocatalysts for fuel cells ▶     Shangfeng Du, Kaijie Lin, Sairam K. Malladi et al.     In this work, we demonstrate an innovative approach, combing a novel active screen plasma (ASP) technique with green chemical synthesis, for a direct fabrication of uniform Pt …             Surface plasmon coupling dynamics in InGaN/GaN quantum-well structures and radiative efficiency improvement ▶     Ahmed Fadil, Daisuke Iida, Yuntian Chen et al.     Surface plasmonics from metal nanoparticles have been demonstrated as an effective way of improving the performance of low-efficiency light emitters. However, reducing the …             Impurities as a quantum thermometer for a Bose-Einstein condensate ▶     Carlos Sabín, Angela White, Lucia Hackermuller et al.     We introduce a primary thermometer which measures the temperature of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in the sub-nK regime. We show, using quantum Fisher information, that the …             Filling schemes at submicron scale: Development of submicron sized plasmonic colour filters ▶     Ranjith Rajasekharan, Eugeniu Balaur, Alexander Minovich et al.     The pixel size imposes a fundamental limit on the amount of information that can be displayed or recorded on a sensor. Thus, there is strong motivation to reduce the pixel size …             Novel structural phases and superconductivity of iridium telluride under high pressures ▶     Bin Li, Guiqin Huang, Jian Sun et al.     Transition metal selenide and telluride have recently receive considerable attention due to their possible structural relation to ferropnictide. Pressure is often used as an …             Low on-resistance diamond field effect transistor with high-k ZrO2 as dielectric ▶     Jiangwei Liu, Meiyong Liao, Masataka Imura et al.     Although several high-k insulators have been deposited on the diamond for metal-insulator-semiconductor field effect transistors (MISFETs) fabrication, the k values and current …             Direct generation of 2-ps blue pulses from gain-switched InGaN VCSEL assessed by up-conversion technique ▶     Akifumi Asahara, Shaoqiang Chen, Takashi Ito et al.     Ultra-short pulses in blue region generated from compact and low-cost semiconductor lasers have attracted much attention for a wide variety of applications. Nitride-based …             Double Charge Ordering States and Spin Ordering State Observed in a RFe2O4 System ▶     Fei Sun, Rui Wang, C. Aku-Leh et al.     Charge, spin, and lattice degrees of orderings are of great interest in the layered quantum material RFe2O4 (R=Y, Er, Yb, Tm, and Lu) system. Recently many unique properties …             Dynamically fluctuating electric dipole moments in fullerene-based magnets ▶     Takashi Kambe, Kokichi Oshima     We report here the direct evidence of the existence of a permanent electric dipole moment in both crystal phases of a fullerene-based magnet—the ferromagnetic α-phase and the …             How to be smart and energy efficient: A general discussion on thermochromic windows ▶     Linshuang Long, Hong Ye     A window is a unique element in a building because of its simultaneous properties of being “opaque” to inclement weather yet transparent to the observer. However, these unique …             Spontaneous emission noise in long-range surface plasmon polariton waveguide based optical gyroscope ▶     Yang-Yang Wang, Tong Zhang     Spontaneous emission noise is an important limit to the performance of active plasmonic devices. Here, we investigate the spontaneous emission noise in the long-range surface …             Additional modes in a waveguide system of zero-index-metamaterials with defects ▶     Yangyang Fu, Yadong Xu, Huanyang Chen     Zero-index-metamaterials (ZIM) have drawn much attention due to their intriguing properties and novel applications. Particularly, in a parallel plated ZIM waveguide system with …             High performance organic transistor active-matrix driver developed on paper substrate ▶     Boyu Peng, Xiaochen Ren, Zongrong Wang et al.     The fabrication of electronic circuits on unconventional substrates largely broadens their application areas. For example, green electronics achieved through utilization of …             Towards an in vitro model mimicking the foreign body response: tailoring the surface properties of biomaterials to modulate extracellular matrix ▶     Febriyani F. R. Damanik, Tonia C. Rothuizen, Clemens van Blitterswijk et al.     Despite various studies to minimize host reaction following a biomaterial implantation, an appealing strategy in regenerative medicine is to actively use such an immune response …             A Macroscopic Reaction: Direct Covalent Bond Formation between Materials Using a Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction ▶     Tomoko Sekine, Takahiro Kakuta, Takashi Nakamura et al.     Cross-coupling reactions are important to form C–C covalent bonds using metal catalysts. Although many different cross-coupling reactions have been developed and applied to …             Competitive growth mechanisms of AlN on Si (111) by MOVPE ▶     Yuxia Feng, Hongyuan Wei, Shaoyan Yang et al.     To improve the growth rate and crystal quality of AlN, the competitive growth mechanisms of AlN under different parameters were studied. The mass transport limited mechanism was …             Extreme tunability in aluminum doped Zinc Oxide plasmonic materials for near-infrared applications ▶     A. K. Pradhan, R. M. Mundle, Kevin Santiago et al.     Plasmonic materials (PMs), featuring large static or dynamic tunability, have significant impact on the optical properties due to their potential for applications in …             Symmetry restoration and quantumness reestablishment ▶     Guo-Mo Zeng, Lian-Ao Wu, Hai-Jun Xing     A realistic quantum many-body system, characterized by a generic microscopic Hamiltonian, is accessible only through approximation methods. The mean field theories, as the …             Independent control of differently-polarized waves using anisotropic gradient-index metamaterials ▶     Hui Feng Ma, Gui Zhen Wang, Wei Xiang Jiang et al.     We propose a kind of anisotropic gradient-index (GRIN) metamaterials, which can be used to control differently-polarized waves independently. We show that two three- dimensional …             Alloy Cu3Pt nanoframes through the structure evolution in Cu-Pt nanoparticles with a core-shell construction ▶     Lin Han, Hui Liu, Penglei Cui et al.     Noble metal nanoparticles with hollow interiors and customizable shell compositions have immense potential for catalysis. Herein, we present an unique structure transformation …             Interfacing whispering-gallery microresonators and free space light with cavity enhanced Rayleigh scattering ▶     Jiangang Zhu, Şahin K. Özdemir, Huzeyfe Yilmaz et al.     Whispering gallery mode resonators (WGMRs) take advantage of strong light confinement and long photon lifetime for applications in sensing, optomechanics, microlasers and quantum …             Computational Study of In-Plane Phonon Transport in Si Thin Films ▶     Xinjiang Wang, Baoling Huang     We have systematically investigated the in-plane thermal transport in Si thin films using an approach based on the first-principles calculations and lattice dynamics. The effects …             Negative Optical Torque ▶     Jun Chen, Jack Ng, Kun Ding et al.     Light carries angular momentum, and as such it can exert torques on material objects. Applications of these opto-mechanical effects were limited initially due to their smallness …             Flat Focusing Mirror ▶     Y. C. Cheng, S. Kicas, J. Trull et al.     The control of spatial propagation properties of narrow light beams such as divergence, focusing or imaging are main objectives in optics and photonics. In this letter, we …             Cerium; Crystal Structure and Position in The Periodic Table ▶     Börje Johansson, Wei Luo, Sa Li et al.     The properties of the cerium metal have intrigued physicists and chemists for many decades. In particular a lot of attention has been directed towards its high pressure behavior, …             Touching polymer chains by organic field-effect transistors ▶     Wei Shao, Huanli Dong, Zhigang Wang et al.     Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are used to directly “touch” the movement and dynamics of polymer chains, and then determine Tg. As a molecular-level probe, the …             Nickel oxide nanoparticles film produced by dead biomass of filamentous fungus ▶     Marcia Regina Salvadori, Cláudio Augusto Oller Nascimento, Benedito Corrêa     The synthesis of nickel oxide nanoparticles in film form using dead biomass of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus aculeatus as reducing agent represents an environmentally …             Optofluidic lens with tunable focal length and asphericity ▶     Kartikeya Mishra, Chandrashekhar Murade, Bruno Carreel et al.     Adaptive micro-lenses enable the design of very compact optical systems with tunable imaging properties. Conventional adaptive micro-lenses suffer from substantial spherical …             Strain-controlled thermal conductivity in ferroic twinned films ▶     Suzhi Li, Xiangdong Ding, Jie Ren et al.     Large reversible changes of thermal conductivity are induced by mechanical stress, and the corresponding device is a key element for phononics applications. We show that the …             Imperfect chimera states for coupled pendula ▶     Tomasz Kapitaniak, Patrycja Kuzma, Jerzy Wojewoda et al.     The phenomenon of chimera states in the systems of coupled, identical oscillators has attracted a great deal of recent theoretical and experimental interest. 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