Ebook: Magneto-Optical Imaging

Magneto-Optical Imaging has developed rapidly over the last decade to emerge as a leading technique to directly visualise the static and dynamic magnetic behaviour of materials, capable of following magnetic processes on the scale of centimeters to sub-microns and at timescales from hours to nanoseconds. The images are direct, real-time, and give space-resolved information, such as ultrafast magnetic processes and revealing the motion of individual vortices in superconductors.

The book is a fully up-to-date report of the present status of the technique.

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Magneto-Optical Imaging has developed rapidly over the last decade to emerge as a leading technique to directly visualise the static and dynamic magnetic behaviour of materials, capable of following magnetic processes on the scale of centimeters to sub-microns and at timescales from hours to nanoseconds. The images are direct, real-time, and give space-resolved information, such as ultrafast magnetic processes and revealing the motion of individual vortices in superconductors.

The book is a fully up-to-date report of the present status of the technique.

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Magneto-Optical Imaging has developed rapidly over the last decade to emerge as a leading technique to directly visualise the static and dynamic magnetic behaviour of materials, capable of following magnetic processes on the scale of centimeters to sub-microns and at timescales from hours to nanoseconds. The images are direct, real-time, and give space-resolved information, such as ultrafast magnetic processes and revealing the motion of individual vortices in superconductors.

The book is a fully up-to-date report of the present status of the technique.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Paving the Way for the Success of Magneto-Optics....Pages 1-10
Comparison of Magneto-Optical Imaging with Other Local Magnetic Probes....Pages 11-18
Magneto-Optical Investigation of Superconducting Materials....Pages 19-28
Quantitative Magneto-Optics: Flux, Current and Electric Field Imaging....Pages 29-38
Magneto-Optical Imaging of Josephson Vortices in Layered Superconductors....Pages 39-46
Magneto-Optic Investigation of Magnetic Flux Penetration on a Nanosecond Timescale....Pages 47-52
Magneto-Optical Imaging of Superconducting Vortices....Pages 53-60
Magneto-Optical Imaging of Pattern Formation in the Vortex Landscape....Pages 61-70
First Order Transition of the Vortex Lattice in Disordered BI-2212 Crystals....Pages 71-78
Magneto-Optical Measurements of the Lifetime Spectrum of Transient Vortex States in BSCCO....Pages 79-86
Strong 3D Correlations in the Vortex System of Bi2212:PB....Pages 87-94
Magneto-Optical Investigation of the Vortex Order-Disorder Phase Transition in BSCCO....Pages 95-102
Magneto-Optical Studies of Chemical Inhomogeneities in Bi2212 Single Crystals....Pages 103-110
Optimization of Bi-2223 Tape Fabrication Procedure With Help Of Magneto-Optical Imaging....Pages 111-118
Magneto Optical Imaging of Cracking in High Temperature Superconducting Films and Tapes Under Tensile Strain....Pages 119-124
Magneto-Optical Imaging of Magnetic Screening in Superconducting Wires....Pages 125-132
Magneto Optical Imaging of Small Angle Grain Boundaries on Different Bi-Crystalline Substrates....Pages 133-140
Low-Angle Grain Boundaries of YBCO in External Magnetic Fields....Pages 141-148
Electrodynamics of Superconducting YBCO Films with Confined Correlated Nanodefects....Pages 149-158
Magneto-Optical Studies of Ybco Thick Films in the Critical State....Pages 159-165
Modifying the Current Distribution of Grain Boundaries in YBCO Films....Pages 167-174
Proton Irradiation Induced Effects on YBCO Films Analyzed by Magneto- Optics....Pages 175-182
Flux Dynamics in Current-Carrying Superconductors....Pages 183-190
Effect of Substrate Orientation and Hydrogen Impurities on Flux Penetration in Nb Thin Films....Pages 191-196
Flux Jumps in Magnesium Diboride....Pages 197-204
Dendritic Flux Instabilities in Nb3Sn and NbN Thin Films....Pages 205-214
Thermo-Magnetic Instability as Limiting Mechanism for Electrical Current Density in MgB2 Thin Films....Pages 215-222
Superconductor Magneto-Optics and Theory....Pages 223-228
Inversion of the Biot-Savart Law: An Approach Based on Discrete Sine and Cosine Transforms....Pages 229-235
Domain Structure and Magnetic Anisotropy in Ga1-xMnxAs....Pages 237-242
Forensic Imaging of Magnetic Tapes Using Magnetic Garnet Indicator Films....Pages 243-246
Manipulating Magnetic Particles Using Domain Walls....Pages 247-256
Magneto-Optical Imaging in an Undergraduate Laboratory Course....Pages 257-264
Magneto-Optical Imaging with Submicron Resolution....Pages 265-272
Optimization of Magnetic Garnet Films for Magneto-Optical Imaging of Magnetic Field Distributions....Pages 273-281
Anisotropy Effects in the Growth of Magneto-Optic Indicator Films....Pages 283-286
Domain Walls, Bloch-Line Vortices and Their Resonances Imaged in Garnet Films Using Cotton-Mouton Magneto-Optics....Pages 287-292
Preparation and Characterization of Sensitive Magnetic Garnet Films for MOI Applications....Pages 293-300
Improved Magneto-Optical Imaging Films Employing Surface Plasmon Resonance....Pages 301-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-318
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