Current Research Progress Surrounding Magnetic Thin Films

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your latest research findings to this Special Issue, titled "Current Research Progress of Magnetic Thin Films". Compared with the conventional bulk magnetic materials, magnetic thin films have various characteristics, such as size effect, shape and magnetic anisotropy control, interfacial effects, and high integration or multi-functional design. As a result, magnetic thin films have been widely utilized as computer storage devices, magneto-optical modulators, optical isolators, magnetic sensors, electromagnetic composite devices, and spintronic devices, among other things, around the world for several decades. For spintronic devices, in particular, they use the spin and magnetic moments of electrons for charge transportation, as well as for adding spin and magnetic moments. Therefore, magnetic thin film materials, such as magnetic semiconductors and semi-metals, applied in spintronics require high electron polarizability and long electron spin relaxation times. These novel storage materials based on the principles of spintronics have been studied extensively in recent years due to their low energy consumption and excellent non-volatile characteristics.

Recently, due to the requirement of micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMSs), high-performance magnetic thin/thick films have started to gain tremendous scientific interest. Permanent magnetic thin films provide stable external magnetic fields and their application has been beneficial with regards to MEMS devices given their extremely small size, which can replace the bulk permanent magnet. Therefore, studies on the thin-film growth of rare-earth materials or other permanent magnetic materials, as well as on their fundamental properties, such as high-throughput preparation and magnetocrystalline anisotropy, are very important for future applications.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest experimental and theoretical developments in the field of magnetic thin films.

Dr. Zhaoguo Qiu
Guest Editor

Dr. Yuan Hong
Guest Editor Assistant

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• magnetic films
• micro-electro mechanical systems
• spintronics
• rare-earth magnetic materials
• magnetic recording
• magnetic anisotropy
• magnetic semiconductor
• micromagnetic simulations
• thin film preparation
• magnetic coatings
• magnetic effects on protective coatings