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Department Schütz
Modern Magnetic Systems
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Magnetic materials play a vital role in our everyday life. They are important in many modern technologies, including magnetic storage devices, sensors, hybrid motors and energy conservation products. Advances in modern preparation techniques enable the production of artificial functional materials at the atomic scale. Magnetism in these often low dimensional materials shows unexpected and surprising phenomenon, which often have potential for technological applications and are the driving force for the basic research in solid state physics.
Director: Prof. Dr. Gisela Schütz
| Heisenbergstr. 3 |
Phone: + 49 711 689-1951 |
| 70569 Stuttgart |
Fax: + 49 711 689-1952 |
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The research in the department Schütz is concentrated on solid state magnetism. The main focus is the development and the investigation of nanosystems e.g., multi-layers, lateral sub-microstructures, hybrid materials and clusters. A large variety of these systems show or are expected to provide a significant potential for technological applications.
Research activities include preparation and characterization of magnetic systems. Characterizing techniques includes magnetic microscopy, spectroscopy, and scattering techniques using circularly polarized x-rays from synchrotron sources. In addition, developments in high frequency techniques are applied in order to achieve high temporal resolution at pico-second time scale that can be combined with magnetic x-ray microscopy and other optical techniques.
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The main goal of the research is the investigation of the dependence of macroscopic magnetic properties such as hysteresis, magneto-resistive, magneto-optical and magneto-electrical effects on microscopic physical, chemical, structural and electronic properties at length scales as small as the atomic scale.
Experimental investigations are supported by theoretical work done using ab-initio DFT theory combined with other phenomenological theories. These studies comprise the theoretical investigation of magnetic, electronic and structural properties of magnetic material at relevant length and time scales. The static and dynamic properties of model systems are examined using micromagnetic simulations and compared with real systems.
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