Contents

1  Introduction (1225K)

2 Personnel (16364K)

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  Direct investigation of the barrier oxidation process in magnetic tunnel junctions using atomic beam oxidation (173K)
6.2  Annealing effects of ion beam oxidized magnetic tunnel (313K)
6.3  Magneto-dipole coupling in arrays of micron-size rectangular magnetic elements (146K)
6.4  Spin waves in arrays of interacting, micron-size rectangular magnetic elements (1099K)
6.5  Successful suppression of magnetization precession after short field pulses by static field variation (463K)
6.6  Analysis of exchange surface modes in Bi substituted yttrium ion garnet films (91K)
6.7  Numerical investigations on theswitching behavior of magnetic tunnel junctions in the quasi-static and dynamic regime (580K)
6.8  Magnetic in-plane anisotropy of epitaxially grown fe-films on vicinal Ag(001) and Au(001) with different miscut orientations(1844K)
6.9 Epitaxial growth of Cu(111) on MgO(001) using a Pt seed layer (206K)
6.10  Improved growth of smooth Cu(001) films on MgO(001) (338K)
6.11  Local manipulation and reversal of the exchange bias field by ion irradiation in FeNi/FeMn double layers (433K)
6.12  Thermal behavor of the exchange bias effect in NiFe/FeMn double layers modified by He ion irradiation (83K)
6.13  Magnetic nanopatterning of the FeNi/FeMn exchange bias bilayers by ion irradiation (175K)
6.14 Elastic properties of thick c-BN films (120K)
6.15  Improved time resolution in time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr effect measurements (187K)
6.16  Plasma beam deposition of hard amorphous carbon films (58K)
6.17  a-C and TiNMx: New Applications in Medicine (263K)

7 Publications (57K)

8 Conference contributions and seminars (17K)

9 Awards (46K)

The  Annual Report 2000 may be downloaded as one file (25.5M).