This text book gives a comprehensive account of magnetism, one of the oldest yet most vibrant fields of physics. Perhaps uniquely, it discusses spin transport and magnetization dynamics phenomena associated with atomically and spin engineered nano-structures. It does this against the backdrop of spintronics and magnetic storage and memory applications. In addition to summarizing developments in this new field of research the book also discusses magnetism applying synchrotron radiation. In short, the book reviews the fundamental physical concepts of the subject and uses them in a coherent fashion to explain some of the problems and applications at the forefront of magnetism. The book is written for undergraduate and graduate level students, and it should also serve as a state-of-the-art reference for scientists in academia and research laboratories.
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2006
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
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ISBN-13
978-3-662-49974-0 (9783662499740)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-30283-4
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Joachim Stöhr received his Ph.D. from TU Munich, Germany and, after spending time at Exxon and IBM Research Labs, joined Stanford University as Professor of Photon Science in 2000. He was the director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (2005-09) and the founding director of the Linac Coherent Light Source (2009-13). He has written two prior books, NEXAFS Spectroscopy (Springer, 1992) and Magnetism: From Fundamentals to Nanoscale Dynamics (Springer, 2006) with H. C. Siegmann. In 2011, he received the Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics from the American Physical Society. He has been a professor emeritus of Photon Science since 2017.
Fields and Moments.- Electric Fields, Currents, and Magnetic Fields.- Magnetic Moments and their Interactions with Magnetic Fields.- Time Dependent Fields.- Polarized Electromagnetic Waves.- History and Concepts of Magnetic Interactions.- Exchange, Spin-Orbit, and Zeeman Interactions.- Electronic and Magnetic Interactions in Solids.- Polarized Electron and X-Ray Techniques.- Polarized Electrons and Magnetism.- Interactions of Polarized Photons with Matter.- X-rays and Magnetism: Spectroscopy and Microscopy.- Properties of and Phenomena in the Ferromagnetic Metals.- The Spontaneous Magnetization, Anisotropy, Domains.- Magnetism of Metals.- Topics in Contemporary Magnetism.- Surfaces and Interfaces of Ferromagnetic Metals.- Electron and Spin Transport.- Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics.
