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The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Events
- David Sloan
- Rafael Alves Batista
- Abraham Loeb

Achievement of Sustained Net Plasma Heating in a Fusion Experiment with the Optometrist Algorithm
- E. A. Baltz
- P. F. Riley

Coronal mass ejections are not coherent magnetohydrodynamic structures
- M. J. Owens
- M. Lockwood
- L. A. Barnard

Magnetic field sensor based on a combination of a microfiber coupler covered with magnetic fluid and a Sagnac loop
- Fangfang Wei
- Arun Kumar Mallik
- Yuliya Semenova

Invisibility Cloaking Scheme by Evanescent Fields Distortion on Composite Plasmonic Waveguides with Si Nano-Spacer
- Yakov Galutin
- Alina Karabchevsky

Global mapping of stratigraphy of an old-master painting using sparsity-based terahertz reflectometry
- Junliang Dong
- Alexandre Locquet
- D. S. Citrin

Superconductivity in Ti 4 O 7 and γ -Ti 3 O 5 films
- K. Yoshimatsu

Blue organic light-emitting diodes realizing external quantum efficiency over 25% using thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters
- Takuya Miwa
- Shosei Kubo
- Hironori Kaji

Characterization of an industry-grade CMOS camera well suited for single molecule localization microscopy – high performance super-resolution at low cost
- Robin Diekmann
- Katharina Till
- Thomas Huser

Quantum detection of wormholes
- Carlos Sabín

On-Chip Glass Microspherical Shell Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators
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- Alexander Cocking
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Optical metasurfaces for high angle steering at visible wavelengths
- Dianmin Lin
- Mauro Melli
- Michael Klug

Valence Change Bipolar Resistive Switching Accompanied With Magnetization Switching in CoFe 2 O 4 Thin Film
- Sandeep Munjal
- Neeraj Khare

High-efficiency grating-couplers: demonstration of a new design strategy
- Riccardo Marchetti
- Cosimo Lacava
- Paolo Minzioni

See-through optical combiner for augmented reality head-mounted display: index-matched anisotropic crystal lens
- Jong-Young Hong
- Chang-Kun Lee
- Byoungho Lee

Naked singularity, firewall, and Hawking radiation
- Hongsheng Zhang

Highly Flexible and Efficient Fabric-Based Organic Light-Emitting Devices for Clothing-Shaped Wearable Displays
- Seungyeop Choi
- Seonil Kwon
- Kyung Cheol Choi

Control of unsteady laser-produced plasma-flow with a multiple-coil magnetic nozzle
- Taichi Morita
- Masafumi Edamoto
- Naoji Yamamoto

Energy-free machine learning force field for aluminum
- Ivan Kruglov
- Oleg Sergeev
- Artem R. Oganov

Tuning magnetic properties for domain wall pinning via localized metal diffusion
- S. N. Piramanayagam

Emergent wave phenomena in coupled elastic bars: from extreme attenuation to realization of elastodynamic switches
- Qianli Chen
- Ahmed Elbanna

Quantifying Quantum-Mechanical Processes
- Jen-Hsiang Hsieh
- Shih-Hsuan Chen
- Che-Ming Li

Band Gap Engineering of Multi-Junction Solar Cells: Effects of Series Resistances and Solar Concentration
- Joya Zeitouny
- Eugene A. Katz
- Alexis Vossier

Prime factorization using quantum annealing and computational algebraic geometry
- Raouf Dridi
- Hedayat Alghassi

Stanene-hexagonal boron nitride heterobilayer: Structure and characterization of electronic property
- Asir Intisar Khan
- Trisha Chakraborty
- Samia Subrina

Supervised Quantum Learning without Measurements
- Unai Alvarez-Rodriguez
- Lucas Lamata
- Enrique Solano

Rapid Fabrication of Graphene Field-Effect Transistors with Liquid-metal Interconnects and Electrolytic Gate Dielectric Made of Honey
- Richard C. Ordonez
- Cody K. Hayashi
- David Garmire

Effects of oxygen vacancies on the structural and optical properties of β-Ga 2 O 3
- Linpeng Dong
- Yuming Zhang

Photobleaching in STED nanoscopy and its dependence on the photon flux applied for reversible silencing of the fluorophore
- Joanna Oracz
- Volker Westphal
- Stefan W. Hell
What is the temperature of a moving body?
- Cristian Farías
- Victor A. Pinto
- Pablo S. Moya

The habitability of the Milky Way during the active phase of its central supermassive black hole
- Amedeo Balbi
- Francesco Tombesi

Machine learning quantum phases of matter beyond the fermion sign problem
- Peter Broecker
- Juan Carrasquilla
- Simon Trebst

A patterned single layer graphene resistance temperature sensor
- Benyamin Davaji
- Hak Dong Cho
- Chung Hoon Lee

Experimental evidence for short-pulse laser heating of solid-density target to high bulk temperatures
- A. Soloviev
- K. Burdonov

Full-wave modeling of broadband near field scanning microwave microscopy
- Xin-Qing Sheng

Photoelectrolysis Using Type-II Semiconductor Heterojunctions
- S. Harrison

Tunable plasmonic substrates with ultrahigh Q -factor resonances
- Hamid T. Chorsi
- Youngkyu Lee
- John X. J. Zhang

Neuromorphic photonic networks using silicon photonic weight banks
- Alexander N. Tait
- Thomas Ferreira de Lima
- Paul R. Prucnal

Gas sensors boosted by two-dimensional h-BN enabled transfer on thin substrate foils: towards wearable and portable applications
- Chris Bishop
- Abdallah Ougazzaden

Transition from Anomalous Hall Effect to Topological Hall Effect in Hexagonal Non-Collinear Magnet Mn 3 Ga
- Y. J. Zhang

Photonics-based real-time ultra-high-range-resolution radar with broadband signal generation and processing
- Fangzheng Zhang
- Qingshui Guo
- Shilong Pan

The Origin of the “Seasons” in Space Weather
- Mausumi Dikpati
- Paul S. Cally
- Eyal Heifetz

Generation of steady entanglement via unilateral qubit driving in bad cavities

Dynamic measurement of near-field radiative heat transfer

Hidden Magnetic States Emergent Under Electric Field, In A Room Temperature Composite Magnetoelectric Multiferroic
- J. D. Clarkson

Robust, high brightness, degenerate entangled photon source at room temperature
- M. V. Jabir
- G. K. Samanta

An absorption-free and Doppler-improved optical waveguide for diffractionless light propagation

Machine-learned approximations to Density Functional Theory Hamiltonians
- Ganesh Hegde
- R. Chris Bowen

Enhanced conversion efficiency in Si solar cells employing photoluminescent down-shifting CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots
- R. Lopez-Delgado

Influence of experimental parameters on the laser heating of an optical trap
- Frederic Català
- Ferran Marsà
- Estela Martín-Badosa

Controlling sound radiation through an opening with secondary loudspeakers along its boundaries
- Shuping Wang
- Jiancheng Tao
- Xiaojun Qiu

Full-color, large area, transmissive holograms enabled by multi-level diffractive optics
- Nabil Mohammad
- Monjurul Meem
- Rajesh Menon

Effectively infinite optical path-length created using a simple cubic photonic crystal for extreme light trapping
- Brian J. Frey
- Shawn-Yu Lin

Enhanced skyrmion stability due to exchange frustration
- S. von Malottki

All-optical control on a graphene-on-silicon waveguide modulator
- Kelvin J. A. Ooi
- Peng Chuen Leong
- Dawn T. H. Tan

Increased light penetration due to ultrasound-induced air bubbles in optical scattering media
- Jin Ho Chang


High-speed manufacturing of highly regular femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures: physical origin of regularity
- Iaroslav Gnilitskyi
- Thibault J.-Y. Derrien
- Leonardo Orazi

Objective-lens-free Fiber-based Position Detection with Nanometer Resolution in a Fiber Optical Trapping System
- Chaoyang Ti
- Minh-Tri Ho-Thanh
- Yuxiang Liu

Estimating the intrinsic dimension of datasets by a minimal neighborhood information
- Elena Facco
- Maria d’Errico
- Alessandro Laio

Terahertz beam switching by electrical control of graphene-enabled tunable metasurface

High-Performance Screen-Printed Thermoelectric Films on Fabrics
- Rajan Kumar
- Renkun Chen

Terahertz spectroscopy of anisotropic materials using beams with rotatable polarization
- C. D. W. Mosley
- J. Lloyd-Hughes

Non-destructive elemental analysis of a carbonaceous chondrite with direct current Muon beam at MuSIC
- S. Tachibana

The Mobility Enhancement of Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide Transistors via Low-temperature Crystallization using a Tantalum Catalytic Layer
- Yeonwoo Shin
- Sang Tae Kim
- Jae Kyeong Jeong

Compositionally Graded Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors
- Hyun-Cheol Song
- Jie E. Zhou
- Shashank Priya

3D Printing of Polymer-Bonded Rare-Earth Magnets With a Variable Magnetic Compound Fraction for a Predefined Stray Field
- Christian Huber
- Claas Abert
- Dieter Suess

Te-based chalcogenide materials for selector applications
- B. Govoreanu

Dark current reduction in microjunction-based double electron barrier type-II InAs/InAsSb superlattice long-wavelength infrared photodetectors
- Romain Chevallier
- Abbas Haddadi
- Manijeh Razeghi

Cross-plane Thermoelectric and Thermionic Transport across Au/ h -BN/Graphene Heterostructures
- Nirakar Poudel
- Shi-Jun Liang
- Stephen Cronin

Direct Generation and Detection of Quantum Correlated Photons with 3.2 um Wavelength Spacing
- Yong Meng Sua
- Yu-Ping Huang

Optimization-based Dielectric Metasurfaces for Angle-Selective Multifunctional Beam Deflection
- Jierong Cheng
- Sandeep Inampudi
- Hossein Mosallaei

Axion dark matter detection by laser induced fluorescence in rare-earth doped materials
- Caterina Braggio
- Giovanni Carugno
- Mauro Tonelli

Selective dual-band metamaterial perfect absorber for infrared stealth technology
- Jagyeong Kim
- Jae W. Hahn

Uncovering different states of topological defects in schlieren textures of a nematic liquid crystal
- Takuya Ohzono
- Kaoru Katoh
- Jun-ichi Fukuda

Soft porous silicone rubbers with ultra-low sound speeds in acoustic metamaterials
- Abdoulaye Ba
- Artem Kovalenko
- Thomas Brunet

Broadband Silicon-On-Insulator directional couplers using a combination of straight and curved waveguide sections
- George F. R. Chen
- Jun Rong Ong

Optical tweezing and binding at high irradiation powers on black-Si
- Tatsuya Shoji
- Ayaka Mototsuji
- Yasuyuki Tsuboi

Indium gallium nitride-based ultraviolet, blue, and green light-emitting diodes functionalized with shallow periodic hole patterns
- Rafael Salas-Montiel
- Mun Seok Jeong

Inertia-driven resonant excitation of a magnetic skyrmion
- Takayuki Shiino
- Kab-Jin Kim
- Byong-Guk Park

Symmetry breaking, Josephson oscillation and self-trapping in a self-bound three-dimensional quantum ball
- S. K. Adhikari

Low-Temperature Growth of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Carbide Solar Cell by Inductively Coupled Plasma Deposition Toward High Conversion Efficiency in Indoor Lighting
- Ming-Hsuan Kao
- Chang-Hong Shen
- Jia-Min Shieh

Photonic time crystals
- Runxia Song

Hybrid organic-inorganic polariton laser
- G. G. Paschos
- N. Somaschi
- P. G. Savvidis

Measuring nanoscale viscoelastic parameters of cells directly from AFM force-displacement curves
- Yuri M. Efremov
- Wen-Horng Wang
- Arvind Raman

Generating Localized Plasmonic Fields on an Integrated Photonic Platform using Tapered Couplers for Biosensing Applications
- Gurpreet Singh
- Malini Olivo

Magnetic field observations in CoFeB/Ta layers with 0.67-nm resolution by electron holography
- Toshiaki Tanigaki
- Tetsuya Akashi
- Hiroyuki Shinada

Blue Laser Diode Enables Underwater Communication at 12.4 Gbps
- Tsai-Chen Wu
- Yu-Chieh Chi
- Gong-Ru Lin

Tunable metasurfaces via subwavelength phase shifters with uniform amplitude
- Shane Colburn
- Arka Majumdar

Directional beaming of light from a subwavelength metal slit with phase-gradient metasurfaces

Experimental verification of the rotational type of chiral spin spiral structures by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy
- Masahiro Haze
- Yasuo Yoshida
- Yukio Hasegawa

Strain induced polarization chaos in a solitary VCSEL
- T. R. Raddo
- K. Panajotov

Dual-cavity feedback assisted DFB narrow linewidth laser
- Shihong Huang

Remarkably High Mobility Thin-Film Transistor on Flexible Substrate by Novel Passivation Material
- Cheng Wei Shih
- Albert Chin

QED cascade with 10 PW-class lasers
- Martin Jirka
- Ondrej Klimo

Deposition of topological silicene, germanene and stanene on graphene-covered SiC substrates
- Filipe Matusalem
- Daniel S. Koda
- Lara K. Teles

Highly (001)-textured p-type WSe 2 Thin Films as Efficient Large-Area Photocathodes for Solar Hydrogen Evolution
- Farabi Bozheyev
- Karsten Harbauer
- Klaus Ellmer

Pinning and hysteresis in the field dependent diameter evolution of skyrmions in Pt/Co/Ir superlattice stacks
- K. Zeissler
- M. Mruczkiewicz
- C. H. Marrows

Wavelength-tunable passively mode-locked mid-infrared Er 3+ -doped ZBLAN fiber laser
- Yanlong Shen
- Yishan Wang

Entropy production selects nonequilibrium states in multistable systems
- Robert G. Endres

Fabrication of full-color GaN-based light-emitting diodes on nearly lattice-matched flexible metal foils
- Hyeryun Kim
- Jitsuo Ohta
- Hiroshi Fujioka
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Use databases to find journals, preprint articles, published articles, conference proceedings, patents, technical reports and other e-publications.
If you are unsure of where to start, contact your librarian (Amanda McCormick) or visit this tutorial created by UB Libraries .
The most frequently used physics databases are listed below.
- AccessScience This link opens in a new window AccessScience provides access to written reference material that covers all major scientific disciplines. More Info Full-Text UB ONLY
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window Critical reviews of current research in biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences disciplines. More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
- arXiv This link opens in a new window Open-access archive of scholarly articles in physics and related fields. More Info Full-Text PUBLIC
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS) This link opens in a new window Digital Library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics. More Info Full-Text PUBLIC
- INSPEC This link opens in a new window Citations to articles in the fields of physics, astronomy, ergonomics, communications, computers & computing,control engineering, electrical engineering, electronics & information technology. More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
- INSPIRE This link opens in a new window High-energy physics literature database. More Info Partial Full-Text PUBLIC
- Optica Publishing Group This link opens in a new window Full text of selected Optica (formerly OSA) publications. More Info Full-Text UB ONLY
- ScienceDirect - (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window Partial Full-Text of all Elsevier published journals. More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window Core scientific database encompassing the literature, substances and reactions of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and related fields. More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Springer Journals Online This link opens in a new window Full-text of selected journals published by Springer. More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window One-pass searching of Web of Science citation indexes, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE and more. More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
- AIP Publishing This link opens in a new window Searches American Institute of Physics journals and other publications. More Info Full-Text UB ONLY
- APS Journals (American Physical Society) This link opens in a new window Full-text of all American Physical Society journals back to 1893. More Info Full-Text UB ONLY
- IOP Science This link opens in a new window Full-text of selected Institute of Physics publications. More Info Full-Text UB ONLY
- AMS Journals This link opens in a new window Full-text journals published by the American Mathematical Society More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window Provides full text access to IEEE and IET publications. More Info Full-Text UB ONLY
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window Extensive research database on optics and photonics research. More Info Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
Google Scholar
- Set up a profile! In your account options, select "library links" to double-check that you are connected to UB (choose: University at Buffalo Libraries - View it @ UB) You may also create an alert in Scholar. Click the envelope icon near "create alert."
- If you run across a journal title that isn't familiar...make sure to check the title to confirm that it is a trusted peer-reviewed journal (and not a predatory journal). Use Ulrichsweb: Global Serials Directory
UB on INSPIRE
- View articles, theses, conference papers, etc. indexed to UB authors
Online Books
- Books in Particle Physics and neighboring fields
This is a collection of key textbooks and monographs in particle physics and neighboring fields which have been converted to Open Access (free and available in full text online) through partnership with leading scientific publishers and the supporters of SCOAP3 for Books (UB is a funding member).
Examples of books in this collection:
- Accelerator Physics (4th Ed)
- Advanced Concepts in Particle and Field Theory
- The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics
Scientific Literature
- A Very Brief Introduction to the Scientific Literature and Types of Scientific Literature
These blog posts provide a quick and solid overview of scientific literature.
- The Art of Reading a Journal Article
This article teaches a logical and orderly approach to reading a scientific publication.
- How to (Seriously) Read a Scientific Paper
In this Science column, researchers share their tips and tricks for reading scientific articles.
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There are specialized scientific journals in physics. If you are a student, go to your college library and ask for help from the “Information”
As mentioned, Sci Hub is your best bet. If there's a specific paper you want to read though, arXiv is also great (albeit not peer reviewed, but
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer
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