Nanostructured Magnetic Materials and their Applications

Interest in research on nanoscale materials is steadily increasing: nano-structured magnetic materials exhibit new and interesting physical properties, which cannot be found in the bulk. Many of these unique properties have great potential for technical applications in magneto-sensors, bio-sensors, magneto-electronics, data storage, magnetic heads of computer hard disks, single-electron devises, microwave electronic devices, etc. Current research concentrates on device design, synthesis and the characterization of nanostructured materials. The contributions to this book concentrate on magnetic properties of nanoscale magnetic materials, especially on fabrication and characterization, and the physics underlying the unique properties of these structures and devices.

Contributing Authors. Preface. 1: Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured Materials. Plasma Coating of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Bio-Probe Applications; D. Shi, et al. Selective Removal of Atoms as a New Method of Manufacturing of Nanostructures for Various Applications; B. Gurovich, et al. New Laser Ablation Cluster Source for a Synthesis of Magnetic Nanoparticles, and FMR Study of Ni:MgF2 Composites; A.L. Stepanov, et al. Ion Beam Synthesis of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Polymers; R.I. Khaibullin, et al. 2: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions. Impact of Geometry and Material Stacking on the Properties of Magnetic Tunneling Junctions; G. Reiss, et al. Interlayer Exchange Coupling of Ferromagnetic Films across Semiconducting Interlayers; D.E. Bürglar, et al. Spin-filter Specular Spin Valves with Higher MR Ratio and Thinner Free Layers; G. Pan, et al. Spin-polarised Tunneling Effects Observed on the Magnetite (001) and (111) Surfaces; S.F. Ceballos, et al. 3: Nanostructured Ferromagnet/Superconductor Structures. Triplet Superconductivity in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Multilayered Structures; F.S. Bergeret, et al. Induced Spin-splitting at Superconductor-Ferromagnet Interface; V. Krivoruchko. Recent Experimental results on the Superconductor/Ferromagnet Proximity Effect; I.A. Garifullin, et al. Theory of Andreeev Spectroscopy of Ferromagnets; B.P. Vodopyanov, L.R. Tagirov. 4: Magnetic Resonance in Nanostructured Materials. Investigation of Magnetic Coupling by Ferromagnetic Resonance; A. Layadi. Magnetic Properties of an Intercalate Mn0.86PS3(ET)0.46: an ESR Study; Y. Köseo&gcaron;lu, etal. Electron Magnetic Resonance Study of Sonochemically Prepared Nanopowders of La1-xSrxMnO3 (x = 0.16, 0.3) CMR Manganites; A.I. Shames, et al. EMR Study of Thin La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 Films Epitaxially Grown on SrTiO3; A.I. Shames, et al. Magnetic Anisotropies in the Ultra-thin Iron Film Grown on the GaAs Substrate; B. Aktaş, et al. ESR Studies on Sm-Co/Fe Exchange-Spring Magnets; F. Yildiz, et al. 5: Advanced Magnetic Materials. Phase Transition in Molecular Micromagnet Mn12; B. Bakar, L.F. Lemmens. Onerefringent Bianisotropic Superlattices in the Long Wavelength Approximation; E.G. Starodubtsev, O.D. Asenchik. ESR Study of Defects in Spin-gap Magnets; A. Smirnov. Magnetic Properties of CrO2 Thin Films Studied by FMR Technique; B.Z. Rameev, et al. Temperature Dependence of Magnetic Properties of Single Crystalline Fe3O4 Thin Films Expitaxially Grown on MgO; S. Budak, et al. 6: Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanowires. Effect of MPEG Coating on Magnetic Properties of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles; Y. Öztürk, I. Avgin. Magnetization Reversal of Stripe Arrays; K. Theis-Bröhl, et al. FMR Studies of Co Nanowire Arrays; O. Yalçin, et al. Finite-temperature Micromagnetics of Hysterisis for Misaligned Single Iron Nanopillars; M.A. Novoyny, et al. 7: Magnetic Nanocontacts. Magnetoresistance and Magnetostriction in Magnetic Contacts; N. García, et al. Conductance Quantization in Magnetic and Nonmagnetic Metallic Nanostructures; W. Nawrocki, M. Wawrzyniak. Huge Magnetoresistance in Quantum Mag