Magnetism and Structure in Functional Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Planes, Antoni (Editor), Mañosa, Lluís (Editor), Saxena, Avadh (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 79
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Magnetism.; Magnetic materials.; Engineering.; Materials science.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Engineering, general.

Magnetism and Structure in Functional Materials addresses three distinct but related topics: (i) magnetoelastic materials such as magnetic martensites and magnetic shape memory alloys, (ii) the magnetocaloric effect related to magnetostructural transitions, and (iii) colossal magnetoresistance (CMR)...

Table of Contents:

• Complex Functional Materials
• Spin, Charge, and Lattice Coupling in Multiferroic Materials
• Disorder in Magnetic and Structural Transitions: Pretransitional Phenomena and Kinetics
• Huge Magnetoresistance in Association with Strong Magnetoelastic Effects
• Interplay of Spin, Charge, and Lattice in CMR Manganites and HTSC Cuprates
• Neutron Scattering Studies of Anomalous Phonon Behavior in Functional Materials
• The Structures and Transformation Mechanism in the Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Ni2MnGa
• Imaging Techniques in Magnetoelastic Materials
• A Way to Search for Multiferroic Materials with “Unlikely” Combinations of Physical Properties
• Invar and Anti-Invar: Magnetovolume Effects in Fe-Based Alloys Revisited
• Magnetocaloric Effect Associated with Magnetostructural Transitions
• Entropy Change and Magnetocaloric Effect in Magnetostructural Transformations
• Functional Magneto-Structural Materials: Summary and Perspectives.