Magnetic Nanostructures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. The Influence of Magnetic Anisotropy on Current-Induced Spindynamics

   • Jürgen Lindner, Daniel E. Bürgler, Stéphane Mangin

   Pages 1-35

3. Spin Dynamics in the Time and Frequency Domain

   • Michael Farle, Tom Silva, Georg Woltersdorf

   Pages 37-83

4. Spin-Polarized Electrons in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures

   • Konstantin B. Efetov, Ilgiz A. Garifullin, Anatoly F. Volkov, Kurt Westerholt

   Pages 85-118

5. Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloy Thin Films: Electronic Properties and Magnetic Moment Formation

   • Heike C. Herper, Peter Kratzer, Heiko Wende, Bernhard Krumme, Kurt Westerholt, Peter Entel

   Pages 119-162

6. Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials

   • Wolfgang Kleemann, Christian Binek

   Pages 163-187

7. Competing Interactions in Patterned and Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanostructures

   • Olav Hellwig, Laura J. Heyderman, Oleg Petracic, Hartmut Zabel

   Pages 189-234

8. Quantum Dot Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications

   • Arne Ludwig, Björn Sothmann, Henning Höpfner, Nils C. Gerhardt, Jörg Nannen, Tilmar Kümmell et al.

   Pages 235-268

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.

• Heusler alloys
• Magnetic heterostructures
• Magnetic microscopy
• Magnetic nanostructures
• Nanomagnetic sensors
• Nanomagnetism
• Nanomagnetism and spintronics reviewed
• Spin dynamics
• Spin transport
• Spintronics with superconductors

• , Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  Hartmut Zabel

• , Fac. of Physics, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

  Michael Farle

Editor: Prof. Hartmut Zabel, University Bochum, Germany. Editor of the Springer Tracts volume 227, 25 world leading contributing authors

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