Main description:

Intensive investigations on nanoscale magnetism have promoted remarkable progressintechnologicalapplicationsofmagnetisminvariousareas.Thete- nical progress of recent years in the preparations of multilayer thin ?lms and nanowires led to the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), imp- ing an extraordinary change in the resistivity of the material by varying the applied external magnetic ?eld. The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2007 was awardedtoAlbertFertandPeterGrun .. bergfortheirdiscoveryofGMR.App- cations of this phenomenon have revolutionizedtechniques for retrieving data fromharddisks.Thediscoveryalsoplaysamajorroleinvariousmagnetics- sors as well as the development of a new generation of electronics. The use of GMRcanberegardedasoneofthe?rstmajorapplicationsofnanotechnology. The GMR materials have already found applications as sensors of low magnetic ?eld, a key component of computer hard disk heads, magnetores- tive RAM chips etc. The "read" heads for magnetic hard disk drives have allowed us to increase the storage density on a disk drive from 1 to 20 Gbit per square inch, merely by the incorporation of the new GMR materials.
On the other hand, recently discovered giant magneto-impedance (GMI) mate- als look very promising in the development of a new generation of microwave band electronic devices (such as switches, attenuators, and antennas) which could be managed electrically.

Contents:

Role of Defects and Disorder in the Half-Metallic Full-Heusler Compounds.- Clustering in Heusler Alloys.- Anisotropy of Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys Thin Films.- Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Anderson Magnetic Impurities in Semiconductors.- New Type of Nanomaterials: Doped Magnetic Semiconductors Contained Ferrons, Antiferrons and Afmons.- Cerium-Doped Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films Prepared by Sol-Gel Process: Synthesis, Characterization, and Magnetic Properties.- Tuning the Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Manganite Thin Films by Epitaxial Strain.- Radiation Nanostructuring of Magnetic Crystals.- Electromagnetic Radiation of Micro and Nanomagnetic Structures with Magnetic Reversal.- Structural and Magnetic Properties and Preparation Techniques of Nanosized M-type Hexaferrite Powders.- Nanocrystallization and Surface Magnetic Structure of Ferromagnetic Ribbons and Microwires.- On Structural and Magnetic Properties of Fe73.5?x Si13.5B9Cu1Nb3Mn x Metal Alloys.- FeCoZr-Al2O3 Granular Nanocomposite Films with Tailored Structural, Electric, Magnetotransport and Magnetic Properties.- Ferromagnetism of Nanostructures Consisting of Ferromagnetic Granules with Dipolar Magnetic Interaction.- Magnetic Dipolar Interactions in Nanoparticle Systems: Theory, Simulations and Ferromagnetic Resonance.