Contents

1  Introduction (23K)

2  Personnel (22K)

2.1 Members of the group
2.2 Guests of the group

3  Research topics (19K)

4  Equipment (17K)

5  Services and transfer of technology (13K)

6 Experimental results

6.1  First observation of spin wave bullet excitations in magnetic films (174K)
6.2  Collision of envelope solitons and self-focused two-dimensional spin wave packets in magnetic films (656K)
6.3  Construction and performance of a time- and space-resolved Brillouin light-scattering spectrometer (73K)
6.4  Lateral quantization of spin waves in micron size magnetic wires (55K)
6.5  Progress in laser interference lithography (28K)
6.6  Time evolution of the switching process in small disk-like magnetic particles (63K)
6.7  Preparation of epitaxial Cu(001) films on Si(001) for NiFe/FeMn exchange bias films (78K)
6.8  Exchange bias effect in poly- and single-crystalline NiFe/FeMn bilayers (34K)
6.9  Structure and magnetic properties of exchange biased Fe/MnPd bilayers (43K)
6.10  Magnetic order of atomically layered epitaxial Fe/Au(001) multilayers (47K)
6.11  Magnetization reversal and magnetic viscosity of atomically layered Fe/Au(001) multilayers (236K)
6.12  Growth of Fe films on vicinal (001)-substrates (186K)
6.13  An improved tip etch procedure for reproducible sharp STM tips (56K)
6.14  Quadratic magneto-optical Kerr effect contribution in epitaxial Fe(001) films grown on Ag(001) (69K)
6.15  Elasticity of thin boron nitride films (80K)

7 Publications (18K)

8 Conference contributions and seminars (17K)

The  Annual Report 1998 may be downloded as one file (1803K).