Magnetic Multilayers and Giant Magnetoresistance
Subtitle: Fundamentals and Industrial Applications
By: edited by Uwe Hartmann
Series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences -- 37; Springer Series in Surface Sciences -- 37
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9783642084874; 9783662041215
Subjects: Magnetism; Physics
Description: 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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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Progress in Magneto-Optical Data Storage; title: Layered Magnetic Structures; title: Giant Magnetoresistance in Exchange-Biased Spin Valve Layered Structures; title: Experiments on the Perpendicular Giant Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Multilayers; title: Physics of and Methods for Studying Metallic Multilayers with Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR Response; title: Nonlinear Magneto-Optics for Magnetic Thin Films.