Overview
- Proposes a synergic junction between the characteristic expertise of the engineering and the knowledge of the basic science
- The main effect should be a cross-cultural fertilization favoring an interdisciplinary enrichment for the readers and their research perspectives
- Covers the most advanced fields of modern magnetic nano-technologies
- A unique source of up to date information for the young physicist, chemist or engineer as well as a crucial reference for the expert scientist and the teacher of advanced university courses
- Deals with the most important topics in the field of modern magnetism in functional materials
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics (NAPSB)
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About this book
A team of outstanding scientists in the field of modern magnetic nanotechnologies illustrates the state of the art in several areas of advanced magneto-electronic devices, magnetic micro-electromechanical systems and high density information storage technologies.
The physics and chemistry of nano-scale systems have made rapid advances and there are real prospects of translating exciting scientific findings into a new generation of processes and high technology products with a potential impact on several industrial sectors.
In particular the development of nano-structured magnetic materials plays a leading role in the increasing miniaturization of devices with superior performances. The application areas considered are:
i) "magneto-electronics", where the control of electron spins in magnetic hetero-structures offers new and improved functionalities in devices of integrated digital electronics. Magnetic random access memories, MRAM are among the principal applications for new non-volatile RAM with fast dynamics, toward the pico-, femto-second range.
ii) "magnetic MEMS" (micro-electro-mechanical systems), which are the integration of mechanical and electro/ferromagnetic elements (micro-actuators and sensors) with conventional electronics MEMS, promise a revolution in several product categories. In fact the proposed integration enables the development of smart products, where sensors can gather information from the environment by measuring thermal, magnetic, electric, mechanical, biological chemical, optical characteristics and the electronic section processes the information and the actuator promotes the action realizing a complete control of the environment.
iii) "Magnetic recording" is a leading technology in the information storage domain and the most relevant application in the field of magnetics, showing surprising continuous progress over several decades towards the limit of terabit per square inch of areal density.>
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on ‘Magnetic Nanostructures for Micro-Electromechanical Systems and Spintronic Applications’ held in 2006. The goal of the editors is to provide the reader with a ‘state of the art’ overview of the field of magnetic nanotechnology. The book contains 12 major chapters written by 24 authors from eight different countries. … the most likely reader of this book will be an engineer in a university or in industry." (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Physicalia Magazine, Vol. 30 (4), 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Magnetic Nanostructures in Modern Technology
Book Subtitle: Spintronics, Magnetic MEMS and Recording
Editors: Bruno Azzerboni, Giovanni Asti, Luigi Pareti, Massimo Ghidini
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6338-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6336-7Published: 22 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6337-4Published: 22 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6338-1Published: 14 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1874-6500
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 345
Topics: Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Theory of Computation, Nanotechnology, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Memory Structures