Advance in Crystalline Thin Wires

Dear Colleagues,

Different families of metallic wires, exhibiting outstanding magnetic and mechanical properties, such as excellent magnetic softness, Giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect, magnetic bistability and related fast magnetic domain walls dynamics, have attracted growing attention of researchers over the last few decades. Most attention, up to now, has been paid to unusual magnetic properties, suitable for various magnetic sensors transducers, actuators, resonators, or energy harvesters applications, to name a few. Development of various rapid quenching techniques since the 1980s has allowed the obtaining of novel metastable materials with crystalline, amorphous, nanocrystalline, granular structures with new combinations of physical properties (mechanical, magnetic, electrochemical, etc.). The physical properties of different families of wires are related, to a great extent, to their microstructures, which depend on their chemical compositions, fabrication, and processing parameters.

Consequently, the latest advances in the technology of different families of wires are the main reason for producing the current Special Issue.

We invite investigators to submit papers that discuss the development of different families of metallic wires exhibiting outstanding physical properties related to microstructure and on correlation of structure and physical properties of wires. These crystal systems include, but are not limited to, granular, nanocrystalline, microcrystalline wires on phase transformations in wires, etc.

The potential topics include, but, again, are not limited to:

• Crystallization process in wires

• Stress relaxation in wires

• Granular structures and related properties

• Phase transformations in wires. Heusler type wires

• Nanocrystallization in wires

• Correlation of microstructure and properties of wires

• Defects in wires

• Kinetics of crystallization in wires

• Internal stresses in wires

• Physical properties (magnetic, mechanical, etc.) and its optimization in wires

• Wire Nanostructures

• Composite wires and composites from wires

Prof. Dr. Arkady Zhukov
Guest Editor

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