Science and Technology of Nanostructured Magnetic Materials, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991 NATO Science Series B: Series, Vol. 259

Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Aghia Pelaghia, Crete, Greece, June 24--July 6, 1990

Thin Films, Surfaces and Interfaces.- Electronic Structure and Magnetism of Metal Surfaces, Overlayers and Interfaces.- Growth and Magnetic Properties of Metastable Structures.- Spin-Resolved Photoemission.- Correlation of Crystalline and Electronic Structure in Epitaxial FCC-Cobalt Monolayers on Cu(100).- Hybrid Ferromagnetic/Semiconductor Structures.- Mössbauer Studies of Ultrathin Magnetic Films of Fe/Ag(100).- Spin-Dependence of Absorbed and Reflected Current on Fe(110).- MBE Growth of Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces.- Surface and Interface Magnetism.- Ferromagnetic Resonance Studies of BCC Epitaxial Ultrathin Fe(001)/Cu(001) Bilayers and Fe(001)/Cu(001)/Fe(001) Trilayers.- Laser Ablation Deposition of Metallic Thin Films.- Exchange Coupled Films for Magneto-Optic Applications.- Temperature Dependence of Micromagnetic Domain Structure in Cobalt Films.- Hyperfine Interaction Techniques Applied to the Study of Surfaces and Interfaces.- Surface Magnetostriction.- Multilayers.- Magnetic Rare Earth Artificial Metallic Superlattices.- X-Ray Characterization of Magnetic Multilayers and Superlattices.- The Characterization of Interface Roughness and Other Defects in Multilayers by X-Ray Scattering.- Magnetism of Nanostructured Rare Earth Multilayers.- FMR Studies of Metallic Magnetic Thin Films in Layered Structures.- Compositionally Modulated Magnetic Multilayers: Temperature- and Modulation-Dependent Properties.- Structural and Magnetic Properties of Epitaxial Co/Pd Superlattices.- First-Principles Calculation of the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy Energy of ConPdm Multilayers.- Structural and Magnetic Studies in Co-Pt Multilayers.- Magnetic Properties of Hexagonal Fe/Ru Superlattices With Short Periodicity.- Magnetic Studies of Fe-Si Compositionally Modulated Thin Films.- Mössbauer Spectroscopy of the Fe/Ni Interface.- Analysis of Amorphous Dysprosium-Transition Metal Nanoscale Magnetic Multilayers.- Transport Properties of Thin Metallic Films and Multilayers.- Domain Walls, Magnetic Domains And Techniques For Their Observation.- Micromagnetics of Longitudinal Recording Media.- MO-Recording: The Switching Process and Its Relation to the Magnetic Properties of Thin Films.- Micromagnetic Computations of Magnetization Configurations.- Domain Walls and Wall Structure.- Domain Wall Multiplication in Amorphous Ferromagnetic Alloys.- Electron Microscope Methods for Imaging Internal Magnetic Fields at High Spatial Resolution.- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Force Microscopy Applied to Magnetic Materials.- Special Session on Spin-Polarized Vacuum Tunneling.- Magnetic Imaging Via Scanning Electron Microscopy with Polarization Analysis.- Atomic Scale Probe into High-Tc Superconductors Using Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy.- Magnetic Anisotropy and Random Magnets.- Magnetic Anisotropy.- Random Anisotropy in Magnetic Materials.- Perpendicular and In-Plane Anisotropy in Amorphous Tb-Fe.- Magnetostriction in Amorphous Ferromagnets.- Anderson Localization in 3-Dimensional Amorphous Alloys: Evolution with the Content of Magnetic Ions.- On the Law of Approach to Saturation in the Series of Amorphous Alloys a-Dyxd1?xNi.- Magnetoresistance of Amorphous U1?xSbx Films.- Absence of Temperature-Driven First-Order Phase Transitions in Systems with Random Bonds.- Magnetic Semiconductors and Intermetallic Compounds.- Magnetic Behavior of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Intermetallic Compounds and Crystal Field Interactions.- Crystal-Field and Exchange Interactions in Hard Magnetic Materials.- First Order Magnetization Processes.- Structure and Properties of Novel Ternary Fe-Rich Rare-Earth Carbides.- Fine Particles.- Granular Solids.- Ultrafine Magnetic Particles.- Magnetic Nanometer Systems and Mössbauer Spectroscopy.- Some Topics in Fine Particle Magnetism.- Mössbauer Studies of Fine Fe-Based Particles.- Mössbauer Studies of Fine Particles of Fe-Cr-B.- Chemical Preparation of Amorphous Fe-Cr-B Particles.- Composition and Structure of Fe-Ni-B Alloy Particles Prepared by Chemical Reduction with NaBH4.- Quantum Effects in Ultrafine Nd-Fe-B Particles.- Magnetization Reversal in Clusters of Magnetic Particles.- Electric and Magnetic Properties of Small Systems.- Existence of Frequency Cut-Off in the Spin Wave Spectrum of Small Magnetic Particles.- Magnetic Hysteresis and Permanent Magnets.- Mechanically Alloyed Permanent Magnets.- Melt-Spun Magnets.- Solid NdFeB Magnets Made by Gas Atomization and Extrusion.- The Role of Microstructure in Permanent Magnets.- Lorentz Microscopy Studies in Permanent Magnets.- Coercivity in Hard Magnetic Materials.- Micromagnetism and Magnetization Processes in Modern Magnetic Materials.- Micromagnetic Approach to Magnetic Hysteresis.- Magnetic Hysteresis in Disordered Magnets.- Coercivity of Nanostructured Materials.- Magnetic Hysteresis of CoPt Films.- Technology and Applications of Permanent Magnets.- Author Index.