Advances of Magnetic Thin Films

Dear Colleagues,

Magnetic thin films are found in a wide range of applications, from computer hard drives to monitoring brain waves. Their composition and growth mechanism strongly influence their functional magnetic properties, such as saturation magnetization, coercive field, magnetostriction constant, and magnetocaloric effect. Bilayer and multilayer magnetic films can also show interesting behavior, including out-of-plane anisotropy, magnetoelectric coupling, and multiferroic behavior.

This Special Issue looks at the advances achieved in magnetic thin films for applications including:

• Novel fabricating routes; 
• Functional magnetic properties (soft, hard, magnetostrictive, magnetocaloric); 
• Mechanical properties; 
• Antiferromagnetic thin films; 
• Novel magnetic properties; 
• Bilayer and multilayer magnetic films.

Prof. Dr. Nicola Morley
Guest Editor

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