Modern Magnetic And Spintronic Materials: Properties And Applications (nato Science For Peace And Security Series B: Physics And Biophysics)

Magnetic and spintronic materials are ubiquitous in modern technological applications, e.g. in electric motors, power generators, sensors and actuators, not to mention information storage and processing. Medical technology has also greatly benefited from magnetic materials – especially magnetic nanoparticles – for therapy and diagnostics methods. All of the above-mentioned applications rely on the properties of the materials used. These properties in turn depend on intrinsic and extrinsic material parameters. The former are related to the actual elements used and their properties, e.g. atomic magnetic moment and exchange interaction between atoms; the latter are related to the structural and microstructural properties of the materials used, e.g. their crystal structure, grain size, and grain boundary phases. Focusing on state-of-the-art magnetic and spintronic materials, this book will introduce readers to a range of related topics in Physics and Materials Science. Phenomena and processes at the nanoscale are of particular importance in this context; accordingly, much of the book addresses such topics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Detection of Microwave and Terahertz-Frequency Signals in Spintronic Nanostructures (Petro Yu. Artemchuk, Oleksandr V. Prokopenko)....Pages 1-26 Microwave Characterization of Y3Fe5O12 Ferrite Under a dc-Magnetic Field (Erene Varouti, Euthimios Manios, Ilias Tsiachristos, Antonis Alexandridis, Μichael Pissas)....Pages 27-46 Nanopatterned Thin Films with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy – Structure and Magnetism (Michał Krupiński, Yevhen Zabila, Marta Marszalek)....Pages 47-71 L10 Ordered Thin Films for Spintronic and Permanent Magnet Applications (Arsen Hafarov, Oleksandr Prokopenko, Serhii Sidorenko, Denys Makarov, Igor Vladymyrskyi)....Pages 73-94 Effect of Au Layers on A1→L10 Phase Transition and Magnetic Properties of FePt Thin Films (Pavlo Makushko, Mark Shamis, Tetiana Verbytska, Sergii Sidorenko, Iurii Makogon)....Pages 95-117 New Applications of Spin-Crossover Complexes: Microwave Absorption, Chirooptical Switching and Enantioselective Detection (Olesia I. Kucheriv, Viktor V. Oliynyk, Volodymyr V. Zagorodnii, Vilen L. Launets, Igor O. Fritsky, Il’ya A. Gural’skiy)....Pages 119-143 Grain Boundary Diffusion Dominated Mixing and Solid State Reactions in Magnetic Thin Films (Gábor L. Katona, Szilvia Gulyas)....Pages 145-162