To meet the growing need for energy efficiency in power electronics and electric machines,
a number of new soft magnetic materials are being investigated. Among them, high silicon …

Laser pulses are the shortest stimulus known to control the magnetization of materials and to
switch magnetic devices on the picosecond to femtosecond timescales. Femtosecond laser …

The principles of operation of permanent magnets are summarized, and their development
is reviewed. The key figure of merit, the energy product, improved exponentially over much …

Nanostructured magnetic materials have a variety of promising applications spreading from
nano-scale electronic devices, sensors and high-density data storage media to controlled …

This paper reviews recent developments in research in nanostructured permanent magnets
(hard magnetic materials) with emphasis on bottom-up approaches to fabrication of hard/soft …

Hybrid nanostructures that comprise two or more nanoscale functional components are
fascinating for applications in electronics, energy conversion devices, and biotechnologies …

Using magneto-optical microscopy in combination with ellipsometry measurements, we
show that all-optical switching with polarized femtosecond laser pulses in ferrimagnetic …

Magnetic particles are widely used as signal labels in a variety of biological sensing
applications, such as molecular detection and related strategies that rely on ligand-receptor …

Permanent magnet development has historically been driven by the need to supply larger
magnetic energy in ever smaller volumes for incorporation in an enormous variety of …

Discovering ways to control the magnetic state of media with the lowest possible production
of heat and at the fastest possible speeds is important in the study of fundamental …