In this book, a team of outstanding scientists in the field of modern magnetic nanotechnologies illustrates the state-of-the-art in several areas of advanced magneto-electronic devices, magnetic micro-electromechanical systems and high density information storage technologies. Providing a unique source of information for the young physicist, chemist or engineer, the book also serves as a crucial reference for the expert scientist and the teacher of advanced university courses.

Inhalt
Spin-Polarized Current and Spin-Transfer Torque in Magnetic Multilayers.- Spin-Transfer-Driven Magnetization Dynamics.- Micromagnetic Modeling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Basics of Numerical Modeling, Analysis of Confined Systems.- Micromagnetic Modeling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Analysis of Nonconfined Systems.- Micromagnetic Modelling of Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Spin-Polarized Current: Stability Diagrams and Role of the Non-Standard Effective Field Contributions.- Magnetic Rings: A Playground to Study Geometrically Confined Domain Walls.- Magnetic Microsystems: MAG-MEMS.- MEMS Inductors: Technology and Applications.- Magnetic Particle Handling in Lab-on-a-Chip Microsystems.- High Performance ?-Magnets for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS).- Magnetic Imaging Films.- Energy Exchanges of Magnets with the Environment.- Magnetic Data Storage: Past Present and Future.- Quantum effects in interacting electron systems: The role of spin in the interaction and Entanglement in Mesoscopic Systems.- Magnetism in one-dimensional metal systems.