Magneto-Optical Imaging [Paperback]

Magneto-Optical Imaging has developed rapidly over the last decade to emerge as a leading technique to directly visualise the static and dynamic magnetic behaviour of materials, capable of following magnetic processes on the scale of centimeters to sub-microns and at timescales from hours to nanoseconds. The images are direct, real-time, and give space-resolved information, such as ultrafast magnetic processes and revealing the motion of individual vortices in superconductors.

The book is a fully up-to-date report of the present status of the technique.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in ?ystese, Norway, 28-30 August 2003

Magneto-Optical Imaging has developed rapidly over the last decade to emerge as a leading technique to directly visualise the static and dynamic magnetic behaviour of materials, capable of following magnetic processes on the scale of centimeters to sub-microns and at timescales from hours to nanoseconds. The images are direct, real-time, and give space-resolved information, such as ultrafast magnetic processes and revealing the motion of individual vortices in superconductors.

The book is a fully up-to-date report of the present status of the technique.

Preface. Group photo. List of contributors.Overview. Paving the way for the success of magneto-optics; H.-U. Habermeier. Comparison of magneto-optical imaging with other local magnetic probes; S.J. Bending, et al.MOI of superconductors. Magneto-optical investigation of superconducting materials; A.A. Polyanskii, et al. Quantitative magneto-optics: Flux, current and electrical field imaging; Ch. Jooss, et al. Magneto-optical imaging of Josephson vortices in layered superconductors; V.K. Vlasko-Vlasov, et al. Magneto-optic investigation of magnetic flux penetration on a nanosecond timescale; B. Biehler, et al. Magneto-optical imaging of superconducting vortices; T.H. Johansen, et al. Magneto-optical imls-