Magnetic Nanostructures, Second Edition

Magnetic Nanostructures is the first reference source that compiles up-to-date coverage of the latest and emerging research activities in the field of magnetic nanostructures for a wide range of readers. The first edition of this book containing twelve chapters was very useful for scientists working in the field of magnetic nanomaterials. In the second edition of this book, seven new review chapters on emerging new research topics related to magnetic nanostructures were added. Now, second edition of this book contains nineteen state-of-the-art review chapters written by leading authorities from top-notch academic and industrial institutions worldwide. This book contains approximately 5,000 bibliographic citations and hundreds of illustrations, figures, tables, and equations. Each chapter is fully cross-referenced, introducing some of the most important nanotechnologies under development today. The objective of this book is to provide a highly coherent coverage of magnetic nanostructures ranging from materials to device applications. This book is aimed at filling that existing gap by covering a highly useful overview of topics related to nanostructured magnetic materials, their preparative methods, processing and fabrication into nanoscale multilayers, ultrathin films, assemblies, nanoparticles, nanogranules, nanowires and arrays of dots, spectroscopic characterization, micro/nanostructures, physical properties, and structure property relationships. The nanostructured magnetic materials have a great commercial potential in future generations of magnetic data storage to capture a multibillion dollar market. The magnetic nanostructures should have commercial applications in magnetic hard disks for computer information storage, magnetic sensors, spin valves, magnetic tunnel junctions, high-speed nonvolatile magnetic random access memories (MRAMs), magnetic imaging, magnetic recording heads, magnetoelectronics, magneto-optics and other spintronic devices, nanomagnets, magnetic fluids, magnetic toner, etc.