Start month: June 2003

School: June 2004

Leader: Prof. Stefan Krompiewski;

Objectives - Program

Progress in nanotechnology makes it possible to construct layered (patterned) structures with atomic- (nano-) scale precision. New fabrication methods have resulted in a variety of artificial structures of fascinating phenomena: giant magnetoresistance effects, tunnel magnetoresistance, oscillating interlayer coupling across a metallic spacer, and important interface contributions to magnetisation and magnetic anisotropy. In particular, spin-dependent transport in nanostructured systems is of fundamental importance for a new branch of modern electronics called spintronics or magnetoelectronics. Spintronics aims at utilising electronic spin degree of freedom on equal footing with its electric charge counterpart.

The main goals of the school are:

• to bring together specialists in the field of nanostructures and magnetoelectronics: theorists, experimentalists and people from industry,
• to gain a deeper insight into magnetic and transport properties of various nanostructured systems: to present main technological aspects of deposition techniques of magnetic nanostructures as well as studies of their physical properties carried out by standard and new sophisticated experimental methods,
• to bring together young physicists from Poland and newly associated states and to acquaint them with basic ideas and experiences of prominent scientists.

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