Ebook: Magnetic Nanostructures in Modern Technology: Spintronics, Magnetic MEMS and Recording

A team of outstanding scientists in the field of modern magnetic nanotechnologies illustrates the state of the art in several areas of advanced magneto-electronic devices, magnetic micro-electromechanical systems and high density information storage technologies.

The physics and chemistry of nano-scale systems have made rapid advances and there are real prospects of translating exciting scientific findings into a new generation of processes and high technology products with a potential impact on several industrial sectors.

In particular the development of nano-structured magnetic materials plays a leading role in the increasing miniaturization of devices with superior performances. The application areas considered are:

i) "magneto-electronics", where the control of electron spins in magnetic hetero-structures offers new and improved functionalities in devices of integrated digital electronics. Magnetic random access memories, MRAM are among the principal applications for new non-volatile RAM with fast dynamics, toward the pico-, femto-second range.

ii) "magnetic MEMS" (micro-electro-mechanical systems), which are the integration of mechanical and electro/ferromagnetic elements (micro-actuators and sensors) with conventional electronics MEMS, promise a revolution in several product categories. In fact the proposed integration enables the development of smart products, where sensors can gather information from the environment by measuring thermal, magnetic, electric, mechanical, biological chemical, optical characteristics and the electronic section processes the information and the actuator promotes the action realizing a complete control of the environment.

iii) "Magnetic recording" is a leading technology in the information storage domain and the most relevant application in the field of magnetics, showing surprising continuous progress over several decades towards the limit of terabit per square inch of areal density.>

A team of outstanding scientists in the field of modern magnetic nanotechnologies illustrates the state-of-the-art in several areas of advanced magneto-electronic devices, magnetic micro-electromechanical systems and high density information storage technologies.

The physics and chemistry of nano-scale systems have made rapid advances and there are real prospects of translating exciting scientific findings into a new generation of processes and high technology products.

In particular the development of nano-structured magnetic materials plays a leading role in the increasing miniaturization of devices with superior performances.

The application areas considered are: i) "Magneto-electronics", where the control of electron spins in magnetic hetero-structures offers new and improved functionalities in devices of integrated digital electronics. ii) "Magnetic MEMS", which are the integration of mechanical and electro/ferromagnetic elements with conventional electronics MEMS. These promise a revolution in several product categories. iii) "Magnetic recording", a leading technology in the information storage domain and the most relevant application in the field

A team of outstanding scientists in the field of modern magnetic nanotechnologies illustrates the state-of-the-art in several areas of advanced magneto-electronic devices, magnetic micro-electromechanical systems and high density information storage technologies.

The physics and chemistry of nano-scale systems have made rapid advances and there are real prospects of translating exciting scientific findings into a new generation of processes and high technology products.

In particular the development of nano-structured magnetic materials plays a leading role in the increasing miniaturization of devices with superior performances.

The application areas considered are: i) "Magneto-electronics", where the control of electron spins in magnetic hetero-structures offers new and improved functionalities in devices of integrated digital electronics. ii) "Magnetic MEMS", which are the integration of mechanical and electro/ferromagnetic elements with conventional electronics MEMS. These promise a revolution in several product categories. iii) "Magnetic recording", a leading technology in the information storage domain and the most relevant application in the field
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Spin-Polarized Current and Spin-Transfer Torque in Magnetic Multilayers....Pages 1-35
Spin-Transfer-Driven Magnetization Dynamics....Pages 37-60
Micromagnetic Modeling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Basics of Numerical Modeling, Analysis of Confined Systems....Pages 61-67
Micromagnetic Modeling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Analysis of Nonconfined Systems....Pages 69-75
Micromagnetic Modelling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Stability Diagrams and Role of the Non-Standard Effective Field Contributions....Pages 77-84
Magnetic Rings: A Playground to Study Geometrically Confined Domain Walls....Pages 85-104
Magnetic Microsystems: MAG-MEMS....Pages 105-125
MEMS Inductors: Technology and Applications....Pages 127-152
Magnetic Particle Handling in Lab-on-a-Chip Microsystems....Pages 153-165
High Performance ?-Magnets for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)....Pages 167-194
Magnetic Imaging Films....Pages 195-224
Energy Exchanges of Magnets with the Environment....Pages 225-236
Magnetic Data Storage: Past Present and Future....Pages 237-306
Quantum effects in interacting electron systems: The role of spin in the interaction and Entanglement in Mesoscopic Systems....Pages 307-324
Magnetism in one-dimensional metal systems....Pages 325-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-345

A team of outstanding scientists in the field of modern magnetic nanotechnologies illustrates the state-of-the-art in several areas of advanced magneto-electronic devices, magnetic micro-electromechanical systems and high density information storage technologies.

The physics and chemistry of nano-scale systems have made rapid advances and there are real prospects of translating exciting scientific findings into a new generation of processes and high technology products.

In particular the development of nano-structured magnetic materials plays a leading role in the increasing miniaturization of devices with superior performances.

The application areas considered are: i) "Magneto-electronics", where the control of electron spins in magnetic hetero-structures offers new and improved functionalities in devices of integrated digital electronics. ii) "Magnetic MEMS", which are the integration of mechanical and electro/ferromagnetic elements with conventional electronics MEMS. These promise a revolution in several product categories. iii) "Magnetic recording", a leading technology in the information storage domain and the most relevant application in the field
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Spin-Polarized Current and Spin-Transfer Torque in Magnetic Multilayers....Pages 1-35
Spin-Transfer-Driven Magnetization Dynamics....Pages 37-60
Micromagnetic Modeling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Basics of Numerical Modeling, Analysis of Confined Systems....Pages 61-67
Micromagnetic Modeling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Analysis of Nonconfined Systems....Pages 69-75
Micromagnetic Modelling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Stability Diagrams and Role of the Non-Standard Effective Field Contributions....Pages 77-84
Magnetic Rings: A Playground to Study Geometrically Confined Domain Walls....Pages 85-104
Magnetic Microsystems: MAG-MEMS....Pages 105-125
MEMS Inductors: Technology and Applications....Pages 127-152
Magnetic Particle Handling in Lab-on-a-Chip Microsystems....Pages 153-165
High Performance ?-Magnets for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)....Pages 167-194
Magnetic Imaging Films....Pages 195-224
Energy Exchanges of Magnets with the Environment....Pages 225-236
Magnetic Data Storage: Past Present and Future....Pages 237-306
Quantum effects in interacting electron systems: The role of spin in the interaction and Entanglement in Mesoscopic Systems....Pages 307-324
Magnetism in one-dimensional metal systems....Pages 325-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-345
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