Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation: New Trends

✍ Scribed by W. Weber (auth.), Eric Beaurepaire, Hervé Bulou, Fabrice Scheurer, Kappler Jean-Paul (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advances in the synthesis of new materials with often complex, nano-scaled structures require increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques that can probe the electronic states, the atomic magnetic moments and the magnetic microstructures responsible for the properties of these materials.

At the same time, progress in synchrotron radiation techniques has ensured that these light sources remain a key tool of investigation, e.g. synchrotron radiation sources of the third generation are able to support magnetic imaging on a sub-micrometer scale.

With the Fifth Mittelwihr School on Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation the tradition of teaching the state-of-the-art on modern research developments continues and is expressed through the present set of extensive lectures provided in this volume. While primarily aimed at postgraduate students and newcomers to the field, this volume will also benefit researchers and lecturers actively working in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction to Magnetism....Pages 1-41
Spintronics: Conceptual Building Blocks....Pages 43-76
Interaction of Polarized Light with Matter....Pages 77-125
Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Optical Devices....Pages 127-144
X-Ray Magnetic Dichroism....Pages 145-167
X-Ray Detected Optical Activity....Pages 169-190
X-Ray Detected Magnetic Resonance: A New Spectroscopic Tool....Pages 191-222
Resonant X-Ray Scattering and Absorption....Pages 223-262
An Introduction to Inelastic X-Ray Scattering....Pages 263-277
XAS and XMCD of Single Molecule Magnets....Pages 279-311
Magnetic Structure of Actinide Metals....Pages 313-344
Magnetic Imaging with X-rays....Pages 345-366
Domain Wall Spin Structures and Dynamics Probed by Synchrotron Techniques....Pages 367-384
Dynamics of Mesoscopic Magnetic Objects....Pages 385-405
From Third- to Fourth-Generation Light Sources: Free-Electron Lasers in the UV and X-ray Range....Pages 407-419
Back Matter....Pages 421-421

✦ Subjects

Magnetism, Magnetic Materials; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics; Solid State Physics; Spectroscopy and Microscopy; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices