Magnetic Multilayers and Giant Magnetoresistance

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Introduction

   • U. Hartmann

   Pages 1-12

3. Progress in Magnetooptical Data Storage

   • K. Röll

   Pages 13-47

4. Layered Magnetic Structures: Interlayer Exchange Coupling and Giant Magnetoresistance

   • P. Grünberg

   Pages 49-64

5. Giant Magnetoresistance in Exchange-Biased Spin-Valve Layered Structures and its Application in Read Heads

   • R. Coehoorn

   Pages 65-127

6. Experiments on the Perpendicular Giant Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Multilayers

   • M. A. M. Gijs

   Pages 129-177

7. Physics of and Methods for Studying Metallic Multilayers with Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR Response

   • H. A. M. van den Berg

   Pages 179-262

8. Nonlinear Magnetooptics for Magnetic Thin Films

   • Th. Rasing

   Pages 263-316

9. Back Matter

   Pages 317-323

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Magnetic multilayers is a rapidly growing and multidisciplinary field of research. The purpose of this book is to give a unified overview of recent progress, giving special emphasis to the most important industrial applications. A general introduction is followed by six chapters that describe a wide range of physical aspects, together with experimental and theoretical methods. Scientists and students alike will benefit from the comprehensive discussion of numerous devices and their physics. As the technology matures, these devices, for example spin valves and magnetic random access memories, are likely to become widely used.

• Helium-Atom-Streuung
• material
• materials
• metal
• optical data storage
• optics
• thin films

• Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany

  Uwe Hartmann

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