Recent Developments in Ferromagnetic Thin Films

Dear Colleagues,

The field of the ferromagnetic thin films is currently attracting a great deal of attention thanks to advances in experimental and theoretical technologies. For spintronics, the ferromagnetic thin-film technology, which controls the magnetic properties by materials, thickness, structures, etc., is one of the key topics. The research on novel materials to overcome the limitation of high integration and scaling for information storage devices is also being conducted based on the ferromagnetic thin film, such as magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). In particular, as development research on next-generation memory accelerates, the understanding of various fields such as the material, structure, phenomenon, and measurement principle of ferromagnetic thin film is becoming more necessary—for example, the need for high-temperature analysis methods for the electron spin characteristics has increased. From these broad perspectives, the fundamental understanding and new technological applications based on ferromagnetic thin films are being actively presented to meet the demand for high-performance devices and sensors.

This scope of this Special Issue is to present the most recent advances in ferromagnetic thin films in topics including but not limited to the following. Any other ferromagnetics-related papers are welcome.

• Theoretical and experimental research, knowledge and recent ideas in ferromagnetic thin films.
• Recent developments in ferromagnetic thin film materials.
• Understanding the ferromagnetic phenomena of thin films.
• Novel materials with ferromagnetic properties.
• Thin-film synthesis/deposition and characterization techniques.
• Spintronics.
• Ferromagnetic thin film applications—devices, sensors, etc.
• Multiferroics.

Dr. So-Young Kim
Guest Editor

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• deposition and coatings for ferromagnetic thin films
• performance characterization
• novel methods for characterization
• fundamental characteristics of ferromagnetic thin films
• applications of ferromagnetic thin films