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Surface, interface, and thin-film magnetism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

L. M. Falicov
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California-Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
Daniel T. Pierce
Affiliation:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899
S. D. Bader
Affiliation:
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
R. Gronsky
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
Kristl B. Hathaway
Affiliation:
Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia 22217-5000
Herbert J. Hopster
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92717
David N. Lambeth
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
S. S. P. Parkin
Affiliation:
I.B.M. Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California 95120-6099
Gary Prinz
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375
Myron Salamon
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Ivan K. Schuller
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
R. H. Victora
Affiliation:
Diversified Technologies Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York 14650-2017
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Abstract

A comprehensive review and state of the art in the field of surface, interface, and thin-film magnetism is presented. New growth techniques which produce atomically engineered novel materials, special characterization techniques to measure magnetic properties of low-dimensional systems, and computational advances which allow large complex calculations have together stimulated the current activity in this field and opened new opportunities for research. The current status and issues in the area of material growth techniques and physical properties, characterization methods, and theoretical methods and ideas are reviewed. A fundamental understanding of surface, interface, and thin-film magnetism is of importance to many applications in magnetics technology, which is also surveyed. Questions of fundamental and technological interest that offer opportunities for exciting future research are identified.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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