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Principles of Nanomagnetism

  • Updated and extended with recent developments, including applications of the physics of spin currents
  • Suitable for learning and teaching with newly added exercises and solutions
  • Increased and updated list of references and texts for further reading
  • Foreword by Chia-Ling Chien, Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University, recipient of the Magnetism Award and Néel Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: NanoScience and Technology (NANO)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. The Basis of Nanomagnetism

    • Alberto P. Guimarães
    Pages 1-23
  3. Magnetic Domains

    • Alberto P. Guimarães
    Pages 25-70
  4. Magnetism of Small Particles

    • Alberto P. Guimarães
    Pages 71-124
  5. Magnetism of Thin Films and Multilayers

    • Alberto P. Guimarães
    Pages 125-150
  6. Magnetotransport and Spin Current Effects

    • Alberto P. Guimarães
    Pages 151-199
  7. Magnetic Recording

    • Alberto P. Guimarães
    Pages 231-248
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 249-330

About this book

The second edition of this book on nanomagnetism presents the basics and latest studies of low-dimensional magnetic nano-objects. It highlights the intriguing properties of nanomagnetic objects, such as thin films, nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanodisks and nanorings as well as novel phenomena like spin currents. It also describes how nanomagnetism was an important factor in the rapid evolution of high-density magnetic recording and is developing into a decisive element of spintronics. Further, it presents a number of biomedical applications. With exercises and solutions, it serves as a graduate textbook.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Alberto P. Guimarães

About the author

Alberto Passos Guimarães studied physics at the University of Rio de Janeiro and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, England. He was a visiting scientist at MIT, Cambridge, and at the Physics Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. He has worked in the field of magnetism for several years, initially studying the magnetic properties of rare-earth intermetallic compounds with Mossbauer Spectroscopy and zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and also studied the Magnetocaloric Effect in intermetallic compounds. In recent years he has turned his attention to nanoscale systems, such as small particles, nanowires, nanorings and nanodisks studied with different experimental techniques and micromagnetic simulation. He is the author of Magnetism and Magnetic Resonance in solids (1998) and From Lodestone to Supermagnets: Understanding Magnetic Phenomena (2005), and has also been active in the popularization of science.

He is now Emeritus Researcher at the Brazilian Centerfor Research in Physics (CBPF) and he is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

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