Magnetic Nanostructures: Spin Dynamics and Spin Transport

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Lindner, Daniel E. Bürgler, Stéphane Mangin (auth.), Hartmut Zabel, Michael Farle (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 246
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nanomagnetism and spintronics is a rapidly expanding and increasingly important field of research with many applications already on the market and many more to be expected in the near future. This field started in the mid-1980s with the discovery of the GMR effect, recently awarded with the Nobel prize to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. The present volume covers the most important and most timely aspects of magnetic heterostructures, including spin torque effects, spin injection, spin transport, spin fluctuations, proximity effects, and electrical control of spin valves. The chapters are written by internationally recognized experts in their respective fields and provide an overview of the latest status.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Influence of Magnetic Anisotropy on Current-Induced Spindynamics....Pages 1-35
Spin Dynamics in the Time and Frequency Domain....Pages 37-83
Spin-Polarized Electrons in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures....Pages 85-118
Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloy Thin Films: Electronic Properties and Magnetic Moment Formation....Pages 119-162
Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials....Pages 163-187
Competing Interactions in Patterned and Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanostructures....Pages 189-234
Quantum Dot Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications....Pages 235-268

✦ Subjects

Magnetism, Magnetic Materials;Nanotechnology;Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics;Condensed Matter Physics