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Magnetism and magnetic materials

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Magnetism is a fascinating physical phenomenon that is not yet completely understood. The magnetic properties of matter continue to inspire scientific curiosity and imagination, and magnetic materials dominate applications in key technologies ranging from high-performance magnets in motors and generators for large scale power generation, energy storage, and transmission, to magnetic information technologies on the nanoscale, such as storage, logic, and sensor devices using the concept of spintronics. The fundamental aspect of magnetism is the spin of the electron, and the various couplings of neighboring electron spins in a material leads to the diversity of ferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic, and antiferromagnetic, as well as paramagnetic and diamagnetic materials. Competing interactions in a magnetic materials lead to microscopic spin arrangements that impact properties, behaviour, and functionality of magnetic materials. Magnetization itself can be controlled or modified by external magnetic and electric fields, and even light, which opens a path to develop future microelectronics devices that will be ultrasmall, ultrafast, and foremost low-power. Those achievements will have significant technological, economic, environmental and societal impact in the upcoming era of Internet-of-Things (IoT).

This Collection of research articles will capture the latest advances in designing, fabrication, and characterization of magnetic materials and their use in current and future spintronics based technologies.

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Editors

Marijan Beg is a Teaching Fellow in Computational Data Science at Imperial College London. The main focus of his research is computational magnetism - he designs and develops open-source finite-element, finite-difference, and Monte Carlo simulation tools to investigate magnetism and magnetic materials on a nano-scale. Dr Beg has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2017.

 

 

 

 

Byoung Choi is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research interests include ultrafast phenomena in low-dimensional magnetism and nonequilibrium spin dynamics in nano-scale magnets. Prof Choi has been serving as Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2014.

 

 

 

 

Peter Fischer is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor for Physics at the University of California in Santa Cruz. His research program is focused on the use of polarized synchrotron radiation for the study of fundamental problems in magnetism. Prof Fischer has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2013.