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D.L. Mills, B.S., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, USA J.A.C. Bland, MA, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
Description Nanoscience is of central importance in the physical and biological sciences and is now pervasive in technology. However nanomagnetism
has a special role to play as magnetic properties depend uniquely on both dimensionality and lengthscales. Nanomagnetism is already central
to data storage, sensor and device technologies but is increasingly being used in the life sciences and medicine. This volume aims to
introduce scientists, computer scientists, engineers and technologists from diverse fields to this fascinating and technologically important
new branch of nanoscience. The volume should appeal to both the interested general reader but also to the researcher wishing to obtain
an overview of this fast moving field.
The contributions come from acknowledged leaders in the field who each give authoritative
accounts of key fundamental aspects of nanomagnetism to which they have themselves made a major contribution. After a brief introduction
by the editors, Wu first surveys the fundamental properties of magnetic nanostructures. The interlayer exchange interactions within magnetic
multilayer structures is next discussed by Stiles. Camley then discusses the static, dynamic and thermal properties of magnetic multilayers
and nanostructures, followed by an account of the phenomenon of exchange anisotropy by Berkowitz and Kodama. This latter phenomenon is
widely in current read head devices for example. The transport properties of nanostructures also are spectacular, and again underpin
computer technology, as we see from the discussion of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and tunnelling magnetoresistance (TMR) presented
by Fert and his colleagues. Beyond GMR and TMR we look to the field of spintronics where new electronic devices are envisioned and for
which quantum
computing may depend as discussed in the chapter by Flatte and Jonker.
The volume concludes with discussion of the
recently discovered phenomenon of current induced switching of magnetization by Edwards and Mathon.
Audience
Researchers and technologists in nanoscience. Faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students in condensed matter science, including
materials science. Also Research Directors, Science policy administrators.
Contents Series Preface
Volume Preface
Section 1: The Field of Nanomagnetism (J.A.C. Bland and D.L. Mills)
Section 2: Fundamental Properties of
Magnetic Nanostructures; A Survey (R. Wu)
Section 3: Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Multilayers (M.D. Stiles)
Section 4: Static, Dynamic
and Thermal Properties of Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures (R.E. Camley)
Section 5: Exchange Anisotropy (A.E. Berkowitz and R.H.
Kodama)
Section 6: Spin Transport in Magnetic Multilayers and Tunnel Junctions (A. Fert, A. Barth and F. Petroff)
Section 7: Electrical
Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors (B.T. Jonker and M.E. Flatt)
Section 8: Current Induced Switching of Magnetism (C.M. Edwards
and J. Mathon)
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