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1 Index AC circuit theory 424 Alloy cobalt-based 286 iron group 278 iron-based 282 nickel-based 285 Anisotropy field 216 Antiferromagnet 287 artificial (AAF) 289 intrinsic properties 289 synthetic (SAF) 468 Antiferromagnetic coupling 71 Antiferromagnetism 206 Atomic force microscopy (AFM) 322, 324 Auto-correlation function 234 Average value 234 Band structure 36 Cu 37 semiconductor 173 Si and GaAs 175 Bi-polaron 147 Bio Molecular Recognition 484 Bitter pattern 316 Bloch equation 397 Boltzmann equation 52 Carbon nanotube 26 Charge-transfer insulator 102 CIP 73 CMR 97, 112 applications 150 band model 119 first order transition 125 ionic model 117 noise 260 paramagnetic state 138 resistivity 121 Co 206, 280 Co 40Fe 40B Co 90Zr Coercivity 214 Coey s lemma 3 Common collector circuit 439, 443 Common emitter circuit 442 Conductivity 55, 186 free electron model 55 Coulomb blockade 169 CPP 73 CrO Crystal field 89, 206 Current source 420 Datta and Das transistor 410 DC motor 461 Density of states 36, 77 Fe, Co, Ni 279 Deposition techniques 380 Differential input amplifier 435 Diffusion current 185 Direct writing 385 Domain wall 217 Bloch wall 218, 280 energy 218 Néel wall 218 nucleation 219 pinning 219 width 218 Double exchange 111 Drift current 185 Effective mass 176 Electron affinity 199 Electron holography 320 coherent Foucault mode imaging 320 off-axis 320 Equivalent circuit 441 Etching techniques 387

2 490 Index focused ion-beametching 391 ion-beametching 390 reactive ion etching 391 wet etching 387 Exchange 110, 207 Exchange bias 287, 468 materials 469 Exchange coupling 287 Exchange length 280 Exchange stiffness 209, 280 Fe 206, 280 Fe 2O Fe 3O 4 206, 293 Fe 40Ni 40B 20 (Metglas 2628) 286 Fe 55Co 35 (Permendur) 283 Fe 74Si 16Al 10 (Sendust) 283 Feedback 453 Fermi energy 35 Fermi liquid 38 Fermi surface 38 Fermi Dirac distribution 52 Ferrimagnetism 206 Ferromagnet intrinsic properties 280 oxides 290 Ferromagnetism 39, 206 Finemet 284 Fluctuation dissipation theorem264 Frank van der Merwe mechanism 310 Friedel oscillations 46 FSET (ferromagnetic single electron transistor) 24 Fuchs Sondheimer model 58 Giant thermal magnetoresistance 12 GMR (giant magnetoresistance) 71 noise 264 physical origin 73 resistor model 74 resistor network theory 80 Goodenough Kanamori rules 104 Grain-boundary magnetism 224 layer-resolved spin structure 228 Half-metal 5, 291 Half-metallicity 291 Hall effect 67 Haynes Shockley experiment 196 Heavy fermion compounds 51 Heusler alloy 292 Co 2MnSi 292 NiMnSb 292 PtMnSb 292 Hot-electron spin-valve 412 Impedance transformation 429 Impurity bands 182 Interfacial magnetism 167 Internet 464 Ion plating 300 Jahn Teller effect 95 Johnson transistor 10 Kerr effect 325 Kohler s rule 63 Kondo effect 50 Kossel Stranski mechanism 310 Kubo Greenwood formula 55 La 1 xa xmno Lift off patterning 380 Light emitting diode (LED) 195 Lithography AFM STM 393 e-beam334, 386 electrical 393 electronic 385 holographic 386 ion-beamprojection 385 laser 386 mask lithography 384 UV photolithography 384 X-ray 335, 385 Loadline 444 Localized magnetic moment 47 Lorentz microscopy 317 Foucault DPC 319 Foucault mode 319 Fresnel mode 318 Magnetic anisotropy 209 configurational 353 cubic 210 magnetocrystalline 211 magnetoelastic 212 physical origin 212 shape 210 uniaxial 209 Magnetic data storage 464

3 Index 491 Magnetic disorder 139 Magnetic domain 217, 340 in circular rings 355 in magnetic dots 344 single domain state 346 stripe domain 341 Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) 322, 336 modelling 339 principle 337 tip effect 357 Magnetic hysteresis 216, 221 Magnetic imaging 316 Magnetic insulators 99 Magnetic moment 205 Magnetic multilayer 71 Magnetic oxides 89 Magnetic random access memory MRAM 474 TJMRAM 474 Magnetic susceptibitity 40 Magnetic viscosity 224 Magnetite (Fe 3O 4) 293 Magnetization 205 Magnetization reversal coherent rotation 223 curling mode 223 in mesoscopic magnetic rings 358 single domain state 347 vortex state 347 Magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy (MOKE) 325 Magnetoresistance anisotropic 464 colossal 117 domain wall 13, 229, 370 giant 71 grain boundary 134, 229 normal 60 spin projecting 204 thin film60 tunneling 134 Magnetostriction 280 saturation 212 Mean free path 39 Mesomagnetism 11 Mesoscopic magnetic dots 342 Metal-semiconductor contact 199 spin polarization 406 Micro and Nanofabrication techniques 379 Micromagnetism 213 micromagnetic parameters 220 numerical calculations 339 Miller effect 446 Mobility 185 MOKE 325 Molecular beamepitaxy (MBE) 301 Monsma transistor 15, 412 Mott scattering 78 Mott Hubbard insulator 102 Nanoimprint 394 Nanomagnet 334 Nanowires 336 domain configuration 360 domain-wall structure 365 Near-field optical microscopy 328 Ni 206, 280 Ni 100 xfe x (Permalloy) 285 NiO 289 Noise 232, 456 1/f noise 238 Dutta Dimon Horn model 246 Hooge s equation 242 in bipolar transistor 457 Johnson noise 236, 456 McWhorter model 246 randomtelegraph noise 251 shot noise 237, 456 thermal noise 236 Norton Thevenin transform422 Nucleation field 215 Nyquist amplifier stability theory 447 Ohm s law 416 Operational amplifier 432 Orbital ordering 97, 110 Oscillator circuit 448 P-n junction 190 Pattern generation 384 Percolation 263 Permalloy 283, 285 Phase separation 121 Physical vapour deposition (PVD) 298 Pinning layer 287 Polarised light microscopy 325 Polaron 141 isotope effect 142

4 492 Index Jahn-Teller 138 small 138 spin 138 Position Control 483 Potential divider 417 Power spectral density 235 Probability density 234 Pulsed laser deposition 300 Quantuminterference effects 63 Rashba effect 23, 410 Read head 464 parameter values 468 Relaxation time 58 Remanence 214 Resist deposition 383 Resistivity contacts 66 critical scattering 143 measurement 65 Ring of three 454 Ruderman Kittel Kasuya Yoshida (RKKY) interaction 47, 49 Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) 322 Scanning laser microscopy (SLM) 326 Schottky Mott model 201 Semiconductor 172 band bending 187 band gap 179 carrier concentration 177 doping 180 extrinsic 182 ferromagnetic 295 intrinsic 176 magnetic 407 spin coherent transport 402 spin relaxation 401 spin transport 396 SEMPA 322 Slater Pauling curve 43, 281 Small signal analysis 439 Soldering iron 416 SPICE transistor 17, 411 Spin accumulation 4 Spin aligner 407 Spin asymmetry 3 Spin blockade 26 Spin dependent scattering 76 Spin dependent tunneling 159 charging effects 169 bias dependence 166 magnetic impurities 164 Spin detection 409 Spin electronics materials 277 Spin injection 20, 404 Spin polarization 279, 397 Spin tunneling junction 8, 472 naturally oxidized 472 Spin valve 465 applications 478 head output 466 magnetization distribution 319 sensor 465 Spin waves 44 Spin-density wave 41 Spin-diffusion length 5, 397 Spin-electronics 71 Spin-orbit coupling 211 Spin-relaxation time mechanisms 398 Sputtering 302 magnetron sputtering 305 triode and rf-sputtering 304 Sr 2FeMoO Sr 2FeReO Standard patterning 380 Stoner theory 41 Stoner Wohlfarth model 215 Strong coupling theories 47 Superparamagnetism blocking diameter 280 Surface states 202 Thermal evaporation 299 e-beam299 flash evaporation 299 Thermopower 67 Thin filmdeposition 298 Thin filmgrowth 307 epitaxial growth 309 nucleation 308 reactive deposition 311 Thornton diagram309 Three terminal spin electronics 10 Transfer function 425 Transformer 429

5 Index 493 Transistor 436 Transition metal ion 89 Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) 317 Tunnel barrier 290 Al 2O CeO SrTiO TiO Tunneling junction 159 Two spin channel model 3 Two terminal spin electronics 6 Ultra-fast spectroscopy 400 Varactor diode 195 Variable range hopping 148 Variance 234 Voltage source 417 Vortex 346 Weak localization 64 Wien bridge circuit 426 Wiener Khintchine theorem235 Work function 199 Zaanen Sawatzky Allen scheme 103

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