Lecture„Magnetism on the nanoscale“

WS 2015/2016

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Exams?

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• Thomas Mühl

(research team: transport and scanning probe microscopy,

topics: nanomagnetomechanics and scanning probe methods)

• Joseph Dufouleur

(research team: transport and scanning probe microscopy,

topics: quantum transport, topological insulators)

• Sabine Wurmehl

(research team: synthesis and crystal growth,

topics: understanding of functional materials properties, disentangling intrinsic and extrinsic contributions)

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Name Email Background (e.g. nanobiophysics, nanotechnology…)

Basics

Ferromagnetism

Itinerant vs localized moments

Magnetic anisotropy, domains, shape anisotropy

Exchange bias

Magnetic microscopy

Nanomagnets

Single domain state

Magnetic switching (including superparamagnetism)

Spin dependent transport

AMR

GMR

CMR

TMR

PMR

Spindynamics

Spin injection

Interfaces

Spin transfer torque

Spinrelaxation and life times

What about ?

Subject for discussion

(to some extent)

Where to find

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Here you will find

all relevant information….

Number Dates Responsible Room

1 Oct, 12th All (introduction) IFW, D2E.27

2 Oct. 19th Wurmehl IFW, D2E.27

Oct. 26th NO lecture NO lecture

3 Nov. 2nd Wurmehl IFW, D2E.27

4 Nov. 9th Mühl IFW, D2E.27

5 Nov. 16th Mühl IFW, D2E.27

6 Nov. 23rd Mühl IFW, D2E.27

7 Nov. 30th Mühl IFW, D2E.27

8 Dec. 7th Wurmehl IFW, D2E.27

9 Dec. 14th Wurmehl IFW, D2E.27

NO lecture Dec. 21st

and Dec. 28th

Winter holidays Winter holidays

10 Jan 4th Dufouleur IFW, D2E.27

11 Jan 11th Dufouleur IFW, D2E.27

12 Jan. 18th Dufouleur IFW, D2E.27

13 Jan 25th Dufouleur IFW, D2E.27

14 Feb. 1st All (Lab tour) IFW, D2E.27, LABTOUR

When and

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S. Blundell, Magnetism in condensed matter;

Oxford university press, Oxford, Great Britain (2001).

S. Blügel, T. Brückel, C.M. Schneider, Magnetism goes nano - lecture manuscripts of the 36th spring school of the institute of Solid State

Research,

Jülich, Germany (2005).

N.W. Ashcroft, N.D. Mermin, Solid State Physics,

Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Orlando

H.J. Zeiger, G.W. Pratt, Magnetic interactions in solids,

Clarendon press, Oxford (1973)

http://www.wmi.badw.de/teaching/Lecturenotes/index.html

Hubert, Schäfer, Magnetic Domains, Springer 1998

DC Ralph and J. Stiles, Spin Transfer Torques. Magn. Magn. Mater. 320 (2008) 1190–1216

Ohno et al., Electrical spin injection in a ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructure, Nature 1999

Jedema, van Wees et al., Electrical detection of spin precession in a metallic mesoscopic spin valve, Nature 2002

Literature

Exams

• Oral exam

• Probably by end of February

• About 20 min one student, two lecturers, 99 questions