This book considers the different aspects of materials with specific magnetic, electric and elastic properties. They are considered in view of potential application in the design and manufacturing of smart materials. Modern smart materials play a key role at investigations in interdisciplinary materials sciences and are serving to forge new links between basic and applied research.
Progress is reported in the fabrication and understanding of in-situ formation and characterization of solid state structures with specified properties.
List of Contributors.- Preface.- Magnetic dynamics of co nanospheres: origin of the enhanced anisotropy; J. Bartolomé et al.- Nanoparticles in oxide glasses: magnetic resonance studies; J. Kliava, R. Berger.- Effect of magnetic field on the magnetic state of copper metaborate; G. Petrakovskii et al.- Intrinsically inhomogeneous magnetic states in antiferromagnets in the vicinity of phase transitions induced by magnetic field; V. Eremenko, V. Sirenko.- NMR study of the successive phase transitions in CuB2O4; M. Chiba et al.- Magnetic properties of cuprate perovskites; A. Sherman.- Quantum critical phenomena and the anomalous low-temperature properties of the U(Pt, Pd)3 system; J.J.M. Franse.- The periodic Anderson model in the generating functional approach; Yu.A. Izyumov, D.S. Alexeev.- Orbital ordering and phase separation phenomena in lightly doped manganites; I.O. Troyanchuk et al.- Interface and magnetic characterization of FM/AF/FM multilayers; V.R. Shah et al.- Squid-based magnetic microscope; S. Bondarenko, N. Nakagawa.- Femtosecond ellipsometry: a new tool for the measurement of hot electron momentum relaxation times in metals; V.V. Kruglyakl, R.J. Hicken.- Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys Ni2+xMn1; A.N. Vasiliev et al.- Magnetostriction of manganites and cobaltites; H. Szymczak, R. Szymczak.- Structural study of magnetostrictive superconducting compounds; V.V. Eremenko et al.- Subject index.