Contributors to Volume 4 ....................................... xi
Foreword ..................................................... xiii
Preface to Volume 4 ............................................ xv
Abbreviations and Acronyms .................................... xix
Soft Magnetic Materials ...................................... 1859
Amorphous Alloys ............................................. 1861
Hywel A. Davies, Michael R.J. Gibbs
Soft Magnetic Materials - Nanocrystalline Alloys ............. 1882
Giselher Herzer
Soft Magnetic Bulk Glassy and Bulk Nanocrystalline Alloys .... 1909
Akihisa Inoue, Akihiro Makino, Teruo Bitoh
Advanced Soft Magnetic Materials for Power Applications ...... 1926
Anthony J. Moses
Hard Magnetic Materials ...................................... 1943
Rare-earth Intermetallics for Permanent Magnet
Applications ................................................. 1945
Josef Fidler, Dieter Suess, Thomas Schreft
Rare-earth Transition-metal Magnets .......................... 1969
Werner Rodewald
Rare-earth Nanocrystalline and Nanostructured Magnets ........ 2005
Melania Marinescu, Alexander Gabay, George C.
Hadjipanayis
Current Status and Future Development of the Magnetic
Materials Industry in China .................................. 2035
Yang Luo
Ferro- and Ferrimagnetic Oxides and Alloys ................... 2077
Ferrimagnetic Insulators ..................................... 2079
Victor A.M. Brabers
Crystallography and Chemistry of Perovskites ................. 2098
Mats Johnsson, Peter Lemmens
Dilute Magnetic Oxides and Nitrides .......................... 2107
John Michael David Coey, Karsten Rode
Heusler Alloys ............................................... 2121
Robert A. de Groot
Half-metals .................................................. 2133
M. Venkatesan
Ferro-, Ferri-, and Antiferrimagnetic Nanoparticles .......... 2157
Superparamagnetic Particles .................................. 2159
Steen Мørup, Mikkel Fougt Hansen
Novel Nanoparticulate Magnetic Materials and Structures ...... 2177
David J. Sellmyer, Yingfan Xu, Yucheng Sui, Ralph Skomski
Micro- and Nanowires ......................................... 2191
Advanced Magnetic Micro wires ................................ 2193
Manuel Vázquez
Template-based Synthesis and Characterization of
High-density Ferromagnetic Nanowire Arrays ................... 2227
Kornelius Nielsch, Bethanie J.H. Stadler
Magnetic Carbon .............................................. 2256
Pablo Esquinazi
Magnetic Thin Films .......................................... 2283
Magnetic Ultrathin Films ..................................... 2285
Bretislav Heinrich, John Francis Cochran
Hard Magnetic Films .......................................... 2306
Toshiyuki Shima, Koki Takanashi
Magnetic Materials with Outstanding Properties ............... 2325
Magneto-optical Materials .................................... 2327
Wolfgang Kleemann
Magnetocaloric Materials ..................................... 2363
Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr.
Chalcogenides and Pnictides .................................. 2378
Daniel Fruchart, Pierre Wolfers
Magnetostrictive Materials and Magnetic Shape Memory
Materials .................................................... 2401
Robert C. O'Handley
Ferroelectricity in Incommensurate Magnets ................... 2428
A. Brooks Harris, Gavin Lowes
Magnetism and Quantum Criticality in Heavy-Fermion
Compounds: Interplay with Superconductivity .................. 2461
Oliver Stockert, Michael Nicklas, Peter Thalmeier,
Philipp Gegenwart, Frank Steglich
Molecular Nanomagnets ........................................ 2481
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Biomagnetic Materials ........................................ 2505
Spintronic Biochips for Biomolecular Recognition ............. 2507
Paulo P. Freitas, Hugo A. Ferreira
Application of Magnetic Particles in Medicine and Biology .... 2536
Wilfried Andrá, Urs Häfeli, Rudolf Hergt, Ripen Misri
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