Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Applications

Spin Dynamics: Fast Switching of Macro-spins.- Core-Shell Magnetic Nanoclusters.- Designed Magnetic Nanostructures.- Superconductivity and Magnetism in Silicon and Germanium Clathrates.- Neutron Scattering of Magnetic Materials.- Tunable Exchange Bias Effects.- Dynamics of Domain Wall Motion in Wires with Perpendicular Anisotropy.- Magnetic Nanowires for Domain Wall Logic and Ultrahigh Density Data Storage.- Bit-Patterned Magnetic Recording: Nanoscale Magnetic Islands for Data Storage.- The Magnetic Microstructure of Nanostructured Materials.- Exchange-Coupled Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets.- High-Temperature Samarium Cobalt Permanent Magnets.- Nanostructured Soft Magnetic Materials.- Magnetic Shape Memory Phenomena.- Magnetocaloric Effect and Materials.- Spintronics and Novel Magnetic Materials for Advanced Spintronics.- Growth and Properties of Epitaxial Chromium Dioxide (CrO2) Thin Films and Heterostructures.- FePt and Related Nanoparticles.- Magnetic Manipulation of Colloidal Particles.- Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biomedicine.- Nano-Magnetophotonics.- Hard Magnetic Materials for MEMS Applications.- Solid-State Magnetic Sensors for Bioapplications.

David J. Sellmyer was educated at the University of Illinois and Michigan State University, where he received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics. He was Assistant and Associate Professor of Materials Science at MIT, before moving to the University of Nebraska in 1972. He served two terms as Chairman of Physics, and is now George Holmes Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Materials Research and Analysis and an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. He has published more than 370 articles and reviews in the areas of electronic structure and magnetism in metallic compounds and alloys, random magnetism and phase transitions in magnetic glasses, magnetic properties of rare earth-iron permanent-magnet materials, and magnetism and magneto-optics of cluster-assembled and self-assembled nanostructures.