Spintronics is one of the emerging research fields in nanotechnology and has been growing
very rapidly. Studies of spintronics were started after the discovery of giant …

Owing to their reduced dimensions, the magnetic properties of ultrathin magnetic films and
multilayers, eg magnetic anisotropies and exchange coupling, often depend strongly on the …

High K/sub u/, uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy, materials are generally attractive for
ultrahigh density magnetic recording applications as they allow smaller, thermally stable …

In current longitudinal magnetic recording media, high areal density and low noise are
achieved by statistical averaging over several hundred weakly coupled ferromagnetic grains …

Symmetry breaking and bonding at interfaces leads to a variety of anisotropy phenomena in
transition metal sandwiches and multilayers. The charge density, the spin density and the …

The temperature-dependent magnetic response of exchange-coupled FePt/FeRh thin films
is described. The FePt forms a high magnetocrystalline anisotropy, high-coercivity …

A theoretical description of magneto-optical effects in metallic transition metal systems on
the basis of an itinerant description for the underlying electronic structure is presented and …

FePt nanoparticles have great application potential in advanced magnetic materials such as
ultrahigh-density recording media and high-performance permanent magnets.[1–3] The key …

The aim of this book is to review recent achievements in thetheoretical investigations of the
electronic structure, optical, magneto-optical (MO), and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism …

The magnetic domain structure and magnetization curves of chemically ordered epitaxial
FePt (001) films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy are discussed. Films were dc …