Magneto-Optical Imaging (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 360 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition May 31, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1402019971
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1402019975
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Description


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.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Magneto-Optical Imaging (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) (Paperback) Magneto-optical imaging is an exciting idea that is tremendous potential to aid our understanding of many time dependent optical processes in various magnetic materials. Where the time scale could vary from seconds or less to many hours. Several papers in the book apply this idea to the still unresolved nature of many high temperature superconductors, especially the BSCCO and YBCO varieties. You can see for yourself many images in the papers. These might show such properties as flux distributions around impurities or lattice imperfections. (Sometimes termed nanodefects.) Other images show vortex chains in BSCCO. Another key topic studied with this imaging was of cracking in high Tc films and tapes under tensile strain. A very serious problem that needs to be resolved for practical deployment. The imaging is proving to be extremely valuable in performing diagnostics.