Magnetic Properties of Antiferromagnetic Oxide Materials: Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films

This first focused treatment on a hot topic highlights fundamental aspects as well as technological applications arising from a fascinating area of condensed matter physics. The editors have excellent track records and, in light of the broadness of the topic, retain the focus on antiferromagnetic oxides.
They thus cover such topics as dichroism in x-ray absorption, non-magnetic substrates, exchange bias, ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic interface coupling and oxide multilayers, as well as imaging using soft x-ray microscopy.
The result is a very timely monograph for solid state physicists and chemists, materials scientists, electrical engineers, physicists in industry, physical laboratory technicians, and suppliers of sensors.Content:
Chapter 1 Low?Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Oxides: An Overview (pages 1–23): Marco Finazzi, Lamberto Duo and Franco Ciccacci
Chapter 2 Growth of Antiferromagnetic Oxide Thin Films (pages 25–68): Sergio Valeri, Salvatore Altieri and Paola Luches
Chapter 3 Dichroism in X?ray Absorption for the Study of Antiferromagnetic Materials (pages 69–97): Jan Vogel and Maurizio Sacchi
Chapter 4 Antiferromagnetic Oxide Films on Nonmagnetic Substrates (pages 99–142): Tjipke Hibma and Maurits W. Haverkort
Chapter 5 Exchange Bias by Antiferromagnetic Oxides (pages 143–190): Marian Fecioru?Morariu, Ulrich Nowak and Gernot Guntherodt
Chapter 6 Theory of Ferromagnetic–Antiferromagnetic Interface Coupling (pages 191–238): Alexander I. Morosov and Alexander S. Sigov
Chapter 7 Antiferromagnetic–Ferromagnetic Oxide Multilayers: Fe3O4?Based Systems as a Model (pages 239–300): P. J. van der Zaag and Julie A. Borchers
Chapter 8 Micromagnetic Structure – Imaging Antiferromagnetic Domains using Soft X?Ray Microscopy (pages 301–339): Hendrik Ohldag