Frontiers in Magnetic Materials

Frontiers in Magnetic Materials focuses on the current achievements and state-of-the-art advancements in magnetic materials. Several lines of development- High-Tc Superconductivity, Nanotechnology and refined experimental techniques among them - raised knowledge and interest in magnetic materials remarkably. The book comprises 24 chapters on the most relevant topics written by renowned international experts in the field. It is of central interest to researchers and specialists in Physics and Materials Science, both in academic and industrial research, as well as advanced students.

Contenu
Modern Methods for Investigating Magnetism.- Probing Magnetic Phases in Different Systems using Linear and Non Linear Susceptibility.- Transmission Electron Microscopy Study on Manganese Oxides.- Single Crystals of Bilayer Manganites.- Gutzwiller-Correlated Wave Functions: Application to Ferromagnetic Nickel.- Chemistry of Halfmetallic and Related Cation-Ordered Double Perovskites.- Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors.- Unconventional Magnetism in Carbon Based Materials.- Orbital and Spin Order in the Triangular S=1/2 Layered Compound (LI,NA)NIO2.- Structures and Electromagnetic Properties of the A-site Ordered Perovskite Manganite.- The Limits to Spin-Polarization in Finite-Temperature Half-Metallic Ferromagnets.- Layered Cobalt Oxides as a Thermoelecric Material.- Commensurate and Incommensurate Magnetism in Layered Antiferromagnets.- Magnetism in Highly Anisotropic Borates: Experiment and Theory.- Metal-Insulator Transition and Magnetoresistance in Manganite Thin Films: Lattice Strain and Disorder Effects.- Magnetism of Interacting Two-Dimensional Nanostructures.- Surface and Interface Magnetism on the Atomic Scale.- Magneto-Superconductivity of Rutheno-Cuprates.- Superconductivity and Magnetism in Ladder and Chain Compounds.- An Experimental Realization of the Shastry-Sutherland Model.- Collective Spin and Charge Excitations in (Sr,La)13?xCaxCu23O31 Quantum Spin Ladders.- Electronic Properties of ?-NaV2O2.- Collective Magnetic Excitations in SrCu2(BO3)2.- Magnetic and Charge Correlations in La2?x?yNdySrxCuO3: Raman Scattering Study.