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Klappentext Spintronics! or spin-based electronics! has been at the forefront of materials research for the past decade due to its enormous potential applications in technological devices that are in daily usage in modern society. Apart from a major application in magnetic storage devices! semiconductor spintronics has been proposed and partially verified as a better alternative to conventional charge-based electronics. An enormous effort has been made worldwide! both experimentally and theoretically! to understand the basic properties of magnetic semiconductors as a potential candidate in this new technology. In this book! these issues are discussed from theoretical and experimental points of view! especially the electron correlations and electronic structure characterization by spectroscopic methods and growth of magnetic semiconductors. In addition! multiferroic materials are also studied as an example of multifunctional materials where ferroelectricity and magnetism combine to exhibit novel properties. The book concludes with a review of the exotic properties of today's most sensational material! i.e.! graphene! the two dimensional form of graphite! with a focus on magnetism! contributing to the ongoing debate regarding sp magnetism in carbon materials. In summary! this book provides an excellent basis for the understanding of advanced multifunctional materials from both theory and experiment. Zusammenfassung Deals with functional materials that are in the frontiers of advanced materials science and technology research! development and manufacture. This title also deals with three classes of materials! magnetic semiconductors! multiferroics! and graphene.
List of contents
1. Theory of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, by Biplab Sanyal, Olle Eriksson Igor di Marco, Patrik Thunström, Johan Hellsvik, Diana M. Iusan, Lars Bergqvist and Peter Dederichs
2. Growth and magnetotransport properties of III-V Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, by Janusz Sadowski and Jaroslaw Domagala
3. Electronic structure characterization by spectroscopic methods, by Ronny Knut and Olof Karis
4. Theory of magnetism in graphene, by Oleg V. Yazyev and Mikhail Katsnelson
5. Synthesis of graphene and derivatives, by Helena Grennberg and Ulf Jansson
6. Multiferroics : theory, mechanisms and materials, by Paolo Barone, Silvia Picozzi and Biplab Sanyal
7. Magnetoelectric complex metal oxides: main features of preparation, structure and properties, by Sergey A. Ivanov
