Metallic multilayers and their applications : theory, experiments, and applications related to thin metallic multilayers /

Thin metallic multilayer films have become an important part in today's computer technology. The giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, which plays a central role here, was discovered in the late 1980s. This can be essentially described as the effect of a magnetic field on the electron transport...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Fernando, Gayanath W. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, 2008.
Series:	Handbook of metal physics ; 4.
Subjects:	Thin films, Multilayered. Magnetoresistance. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. GMR in Metallic Multilayers - a Simple Picture
Chapter 2. Overview of First Principles Theory: Metallic Films
Chapter 3. Thin Epitaxial Films: Insights from Theory and Experiment
Chapter 4. Magnetic Anisotropy in Transition Metal Systems
Chapter 5. Probing Layered Systems: a Brief Guide to Experimental Techniques
Chapter 6. Generalized Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory via Effective Action Formalism
Chapter 7. Magnetic Tunnel Jusctions and Spin Torques
Chapter 8. Confined Electronic States in Metallic Multilayers
Chapter 9. Half-Metallic Systems: Complete Asymmetry in Spin Transport
Chapter 10. Exact Theoretical Studies of Small Hubbard Clusters.