Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) have been proposed for applications in high-density
storage, quantum simulation, quantum computing and spintronics applications. Bulk …

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral quasiparticles that show promise for the transportation and
storage of information. On a fundamental level, skyrmions are model systems for …

Spintronics is one of the emerging research fields in nanotechnology and has been growing
very rapidly. Studies of spintronics were started after the discovery of giant …

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin
degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this …

Control of magnetism on the atomic scale is becoming essential as data storage devices are
miniaturized. We show that antiferromagnetic nanostructures, composed of just a few Fe …

The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) was invented by Binnig and Rohrer and
received a Nobel Prize of Physics in 1986. Together with the atomic force microscope (AFM) …

The direct observation of spin structures with atomic-scale resolution, a long-time dream in
condensed matter research, recently became a reality based on the development of spin …

Spin-polarized electron tunneling is an experimental technique which has used special
properties of the superconducting state to probe spin-dependent features of the electron …

A review of new developments in theoretical and experimental electronic-structure
investigations of half-metallic ferromagnets (HMFs) is presented. Being semiconductors for …