Contents

1  Introduction (23K)

2  Personnel (349K)

2.1 Members of the group
2.2 Visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows and exchange students
2.3 Guest seminars
2.4 Visits of group members at other laboratories
2.5 Group member photo gallery

3  Research topics (27K)

4  Equipment (26K)

5  Transfer of Technology (15K)

5.1 Magnetism
5.2 Institut für Dünnschichttechnologie - Transferstelle der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern

6 Experimental results

A. Dynamic Magnetic Phenomena

 

6.1	Reflection and tunneling of spin waves through a region of inhomogeneous magnetic field (502K)
6.2	Brillouin light scattering measurements of single micrometer sized magnetic elements (56K)
6.3	Observation of collective spin-wave modes in an inhomogeneously magnetized stripe (227K)

B. Nonlinear Wave Effects

 

6.4	Experimental observation of symmetry-breaking nonlinear modes in an active ring(116K)
6.5	Black soliton formation from phase-adjusted spin wave packets(155K)
6.6	Parametric generation of forward and phase-conjugated spin-wave bullets in a magnetic film (98K)

C. Magnetic Films and Double Layers

 

6.7	Surface smoothing and reduction of Neel "orange peel" coupling for magnetic tunnel junctions using low energy argon ions(332K)
6.8	High resolution magnetic patterning of exchange coupled multilayers(105K)
6.9	Measurement of the three magnetization vector components of a Ni81Fe19 film(274K)

D. Exchange Bias Effect

 

6.10	Optical control of the magnetization in exchange biased NiFe/FeMn bilayers on the picosecond timescale (64K)
6.11	Investigation of the polycrystalline Fe19Ni81/Fe50Mn50 exchange bias system with varying Cu spacer layer for partial decoupling (226K)
6.12	Structural analysis of the Ni81Fe19/Fe50Mn50 exchange bias layer system (149K)
6.13	Modification of the magnetic properties of the polycrystalline Ni81Fe19/Fe50Mn50 exchange bias bilayer system by Ga+-ion irradiation (145K)

E. Elastic Properties

 

6.14	Growth dynamics in sputtered BN films revealed by Brillouin light scattering (107K)
6.15	Evidence of surface phonons in mesoscopic BN coated fibres (69K)
6.16	Monte Carlo method to analyze the dispersion of guided acoustic modes (918K)

F. Transfer of Technology

 

6.17	Mode-locked ps-Nd:YVO4-laser for time-resolved measurements at wavelengths of 1064 nm, 532 nm and 266 nm (59K)
6.18	The influence of amorphous carbon coating on encrustations of indwelling catheter surfaces (585K)

7 Publications (28K)

8 Conferences, Workshops, Schools and Seminars (25K)

Appendix (219K)

The Annual Report 2003 may be downloded as one file (4.6M).