Magnetism and Structure in Functional Materials

✍ Scribed by J. A. Krumhansl (auth.), Antoni Planes, Lluís Mañosa, Avadh Saxena (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science 79
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Magnetism and Structure in Functional Materials addresses three distinct but related topics: (i) magnetoelastic materials such as magnetic martensites and magnetic shape memory alloys, (ii) the magnetocaloric effect related to magnetostructural transitions, and (iii) colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) and related magnanites. The goal is to identify common underlying principles in these classes of materials that are relevant for optimizing various functionalities. The emergence of apparently different magnetic/structural phenomena in disparate classes of materials clearly points to a need for common concepts in order to achieve a broader understanding of the interplay between magnetism and structure in this general class of new functional materials exhibiting ever more complex microstructure and function. The topic is interdisciplinary in nature and the contributors correspondingly include physicists, materials scientists and engineers. Likewise the book will appeal to scientists from all these areas.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Complex Functional Materials....Pages 1-2
Spin, Charge, and Lattice Coupling in Multiferroic Materials....Pages 3-25
Disorder in Magnetic and Structural Transitions: Pretransitional Phenomena and Kinetics....Pages 27-48
Huge Magnetoresistance in Association with Strong Magnetoelastic Effects....Pages 49-73
Interplay of Spin, Charge, and Lattice in CMR Manganites and HTSC Cuprates....Pages 75-92
Neutron Scattering Studies of Anomalous Phonon Behavior in Functional Materials....Pages 93-112
The Structures and Transformation Mechanism in the Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Ni 2 MnGa....Pages 113-140
Imaging Techniques in Magnetoelastic Materials....Pages 141-157
A Way to Search for Multiferroic Materials with “Unlikely” Combinations of Physical Properties....Pages 159-175
Invar and Anti-Invar: Magnetovolume Effects in Fe-Based Alloys Revisited....Pages 177-197
Magnetocaloric Effect Associated with Magnetostructural Transitions....Pages 199-222
Entropy Change and Magnetocaloric Effect in Magnetostructural Transformations....Pages 223-236
Functional Magneto-Structural Materials: Summary and Perspectives....Pages 237-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-251

✦ Subjects

Magnetism, Magnetic Materials; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Condensed Matter Physics; Engineering, general