Research scientists and graduate students will find this book useful as an account of recent developments in the active field of magnetism of surfaces, overlayers, and composites. Experimental and theoretical techniques currently being used in investigations are reported.

Inhalt
1 Surface and Thin-Film Microstructure: Micromagnetics.- I. Surface Magnetic Microstructure.- II. Theoretical Predictions for Magnetic Hysteresis.- 2 Atomic-Scale Structure of Magnetic Surfaces and Overlayers.- III. Surface Magneto-Optical Studies of Ultrathin Ferromagnetic Films.- IV. Dead Layers in Thin-Film Magnetism: p(l × l)Ni on Ag(100) and Ag(111).- V. Study of Short-Range Magnetic Order Transitions by Spin-Polarized Photoelectron Diffraction.- VI. Spin-Polarized Photoemission on Ferromagnetic Epitaxial Thin Films.- VII. Spin-Dependent Inelastic Electron Scattering from Ferromagnetic Surfaces.- VIII. Absolute Determination of the Magnetic Anisotropy of Ultrathin Gd and Ni Films on W(110).- IX. Surface Magnetism of Novel Expitaxial Systems Determined by Electron Capture Spectroscopy and by Spin-Polarized Electron Emission Spectroscopy.- X. Incommensurable Surface Spin Structure in MnO-Type Antiferromagnets.- XI. Magnetic Properties of Anisotropic Thin Films.- XII. Magnetic Metallic Overlayers on Paramagnetic Substrates.- 3 Magnetic Superlattices.- XIII. Exchange Anisotropy in Ni81Fe19/Fe50Mn50 Multilayered Structures: Evidence for Finite-Size Scaling in Ultra-Thin Antiferromagnetic Layers.- XIV. Lattice Mismatched Magnetic Superlattices.- XV. Anisotropic Magnetic Response of Rare Earths in Superlattices.- XVI. Studies of the Magnetic Properties of Superlattices in the Fe(110)/Ag(lll) System.- 4 Statistical Mechanics of Low-Dimensional Magnetism.- XVII. Static and Dynamic Critical Phenomena at Surfaces.- XVIII. Surface-Induced Disorder and Surface Melting.- XIX. Theory of Spin Waves in Magnetic Multilayers.- XX. Spin Fluctuation Theory of Surfaces, Sandwiches and Superlattices.- XXI. Surface Magnetic Properties of a Transverse Ising Model with a Dilute Surface.- 5Clusters and One-Dimensional Magnetic Systems.- XXII. Magnetic Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems.- XXIII. Critical Behavior of Quantum Heisenberg Chains.- XXIV. Long-Range Order in One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Magnetic Chains.- XXV. Magnetic Properties of Small Transition-Metal Clusters.- 6 Order Disorder.- XXVI. Structural Disorder at Low Densities.- 7 Magnetism and Superconductivity.- XXVII. Antiferromagnetic Order in the CuO2 Planes of High-Tc Superconductors.- Index of Contributors.