Ebook: Magnetic Multilayers and Giant Magnetoresistance: Fundamentals and Industrial Applications

Magneto-electronics is certainly one of the most rapidly expanding fields in basic research and industrial application. Magnetic multilayers are the key devices in this field; they allow the utilization of unique micromagnetic, magneto-optic, and magneto-electronic phenomena which cannot be realized on the basis of conventional materials. This book provides a detailed and well-balanced introduction to both the underlying physical fundamentals and the technological applications in terms of devices that are just entering the market or are of high industrial relevance for the near future. In particular, the employment of magnetic multilayers in magneto-optical recording, in GMR and spin-valve devices, and as configurations yielding a striking nonlinear magneto-optical response is discussed in a comprehensive way. This state-of-the-art review involves an extensive list of key references to original work and thus makes the vast knowledge already accumulated in the field accessible to the reader.

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Magneto-electronics is certainly one of the most rapidly expanding fields in basic research and industrial application. Magnetic multilayers are the key devices in this field; they allow the utilization of unique micromagnetic, magneto-optic, and magneto-electronic phenomena which cannot be realized on the basis of conventional materials. This book provides a detailed and well-balanced introduction to both the underlying physical fundamentals and the technological applications in terms of devices that are just entering the market or are of high industrial relevance for the near future. In particular, the employment of magnetic multilayers in magneto-optical recording, in GMR and spin-valve devices, and as configurations yielding a striking nonlinear magneto-optical response is discussed in a comprehensive way. This state-of-the-art review involves an extensive list of key references to original work and thus makes the vast knowledge already accumulated in the field accessible to the reader.

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Magneto-electronics is certainly one of the most rapidly expanding fields in basic research and industrial application. Magnetic multilayers are the key devices in this field; they allow the utilization of unique micromagnetic, magneto-optic, and magneto-electronic phenomena which cannot be realized on the basis of conventional materials. This book provides a detailed and well-balanced introduction to both the underlying physical fundamentals and the technological applications in terms of devices that are just entering the market or are of high industrial relevance for the near future. In particular, the employment of magnetic multilayers in magneto-optical recording, in GMR and spin-valve devices, and as configurations yielding a striking nonlinear magneto-optical response is discussed in a comprehensive way. This state-of-the-art review involves an extensive list of key references to original work and thus makes the vast knowledge already accumulated in the field accessible to the reader.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Progress in Magnetooptical Data Storage....Pages 13-47
Layered Magnetic Structures: Interlayer Exchange Coupling and Giant Magnetoresistance....Pages 49-64
Giant Magnetoresistance in Exchange-Biased Spin-Valve Layered Structures and its Application in Read Heads....Pages 65-127
Experiments on the Perpendicular Giant Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Multilayers....Pages 129-177
Physics of and Methods for Studying Metallic Multilayers with Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR Response....Pages 179-262
Nonlinear Magnetooptics for Magnetic Thin Films....Pages 263-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-323

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Magneto-electronics is certainly one of the most rapidly expanding fields in basic research and industrial application. Magnetic multilayers are the key devices in this field; they allow the utilization of unique micromagnetic, magneto-optic, and magneto-electronic phenomena which cannot be realized on the basis of conventional materials. This book provides a detailed and well-balanced introduction to both the underlying physical fundamentals and the technological applications in terms of devices that are just entering the market or are of high industrial relevance for the near future. In particular, the employment of magnetic multilayers in magneto-optical recording, in GMR and spin-valve devices, and as configurations yielding a striking nonlinear magneto-optical response is discussed in a comprehensive way. This state-of-the-art review involves an extensive list of key references to original work and thus makes the vast knowledge already accumulated in the field accessible to the reader.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Progress in Magnetooptical Data Storage....Pages 13-47
Layered Magnetic Structures: Interlayer Exchange Coupling and Giant Magnetoresistance....Pages 49-64
Giant Magnetoresistance in Exchange-Biased Spin-Valve Layered Structures and its Application in Read Heads....Pages 65-127
Experiments on the Perpendicular Giant Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Multilayers....Pages 129-177
Physics of and Methods for Studying Metallic Multilayers with Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR Response....Pages 179-262
Nonlinear Magnetooptics for Magnetic Thin Films....Pages 263-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-323
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