Spin Dependent Transport in Magnetic Nanostructures - 9780415272261

CRC Press

Spin-dependent transport phenomena in magnetic nanostructures have received much attention both from the academic and a technological points of view. Ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, made of ferromagnetic metal electrodes and a very thin insulating barrier between them, also also hold a great deal of current interest. Edited by two of the world's leading authorities, Spin Dependent Transport in Magnetic Nanostructures introduces and explains the basic physics and applications of a variety of spin-dependent transport phenomena in magnetic nanostructures, with particular emphasis on magnetic multilayers and magnetic tunnel junctions. > In magnetic systems of nano-meter size, the interplay between spin and charge of electrons provides unique transport phenomena. In magnetic superlattices, magnetic and non-magnetic metallic thin films with thickness of the order of one nano-meter are piled-up alternately. Since the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in these superlattices in 19o