Domains (domain walls, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, domain formation, soft and hard materials)
Competing interactions and low dimensionality
spin glasses
superparamagnetism
thin films and multilayers
PART II: Spintronics
Band edge absorption in direct gap semiconductors
Excitons
Photo- and Electro-luminescence
Semiconductor quantum wells
The GaAs Spin-LED
Spin injection and detection
Selection Rules
ZnMnSe: A prototype magnetic material for spin injection
Spin injection from Fe into GaAs quantum wells
The role of the H-band luminescence
Towards room temperature applications. Using quantum dots as spin detectors.
Βιβλιογραφία
C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics
S. Blundell, Magnetism in Condensed Matter
M. Fox, Optical properties of solids
J.K. Furdyna, Diluted magnetic Semiconductors, Journal of Applied Physics 64, R29 (1988).
B.T. Jonker and M.E. Flatte, Electrical Spin injection and transport in semiconductors, in Nanomagnetism: ultrathin films multilayers and nanostructures, 2006.