Contents

1  Introduction (19K)

2  Personnel (25K)

2.1 Members of the group
2.2 Guests of the group

3  Research topics (14K)

4  Equipment (9K)

5  Services and transfer of technology (9K)

6 Experimental results

6.1  Discovery of a metastabile bcc-Pd phase (49K)
6.2  Pd induced anisotropies in the Fe(001)/Pd bilayer system (31K)
6.3  Interlayer coupling and the giant magnetoresistance effect in Fe/Cr/Pd/Fe multilayers (35K)
6.4  Brillouin light scattering investigations of exchange biased (110)-oriented NiFe/FeMn bilayers (87K)
6.5  Angular dependence of the exchange bias field in the NiFe/FeMn (110) exchange bias system (101K)
6.6  Magnetic properties of atomically layered Fe/Au multilayers (48K)
6.7  Laser Interference Lithography (296K)
6.8  Static and dynamic properties of patterned magnetic permalloy films (234K)
6.9  Spin wave quantization in mesoscopic permalloy bar structure (44K)
6.10  Parametric excitations of spin waves (23K)
6.11  Nonlinear spin wave propagation in YIG and Bi-substituted YIG films (62K)
6.12  Snake-like spin wave propagation in magnetic waveguides (199K)
6.13  Spin waves and magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin (111)-oriented cubic films (30K)
6.14  Elasticity of hard amorphous carbon films (29K)
6.15  Absence of elastic anomalies for Co/Ni superlattices with oscillatory transport (26K)

7 Publications (1996-1997) (18K)

8 Conference contributions and seminars (1996-1997) (12K)

The  Annual Report 1997 may be downloded as one file (1258K).