Spintronics nanostructured materials

Part 5 covers special structures such as liquid crystals, solid surfaces and mesoscopic and nanostructured materials. The chapter on liquid crystals covers physical properties of the most common liquid crystalline substances as well as some liquid crystalline mixtures. Data compiled in the chapter on solid surfaces refer to atomically clean and well characterized surfaces. The values reported are mainly averages from different authors where reference to the original papers is made. In the chapter on nanostructured materials emphasis is placed on size and confinement effects. The properties associated with electronic confinement are addressed and particular attention is drawn to semiconductor-doped matrices. The two main applications of nanostructured magnetic materials, spintronics and ultrahigh-density data storage media, are also treated. 

Nanodevices are systems with nanostructured materials that carry out specific functions with either improved performance or new attributes. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of new device paradigms based on nanostructured materials, including nanoelectronic devices, nano-optoelectronic devices, spintronic devices, nanosensors, and drug and gene delivery systems. 

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