
spin-valve magnetic random access memory (SV-MRAM)
1071
magnetization configuration 1072
spin valves 622–626, 578, 613
applications, read heads 622
current density 626
domain structures 487
exchange coupling 834
giant magnetoresistance 247
hysteresis loops 247F
magnetostatic coupling 623
manufacture 625
microstructure 623
orange-peel coupling 624
pinning layer 623
sense layer reversal 625
structure 623
thermal stability 625
spin waves 417, 1094
theories 418
see also magnons; spin fluctuations (SFs)
SPLEED (spin-polarized low-energy electron diffraction) 940
SPLEEM (spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy)
1229
SPring-8 (Japan) 1003
sputtering
applications, thin film growth 783, 1234
high-temperature superconductors 1182
see also magnetron sputtering
SQUID amplifiers see superconducting-quantum-interference
device (SQUID) amplifiers
SQUID magnetometers see superconducting-quantum-
interference device (SQUID) magnetometers
SQUIDs see superconducting-quantum-interference devices
(SQUIDs)
mSR see muon spin rotation/relaxation (mSR)
SRPAC see synchrotron radiation-based perturbed angular
correlation (SRPAC)
SSMs see scanning SQUID microscopes (SSMs)
Stabltone-Bandmachine 572
steels
low-carbon 467
tempering, Mo
¨
ssbauer spectroscopy studies 945
see also magnetic steels; silicon irons
Steinmetz law 465
STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) 527
step-edge junctions 354, 354F
stepper motors, bonded permanent magnets 862
stilbenoid complexes, ligand-driven light-induced spin change
1060
Stille, Kurt (1873–1957) 572
STJ detectors see superconducting tunnel junction (STJ)
detectors
STM see scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
Stokesian dynamic simulations 644
Stoner condition, for ferromagnetism 912
Stoner criterion 1096
Stoner–Edwards–Wohlfarth (SEW) model 1096
Stoner enhancement 1096
Stoner exchange factor 340, 343
Stoner factor 698
Stoner model 1056, 1096, 1098
of ferromagnetism 1225
of itinerant electron magnetism 342
Stoner parameter 105, 107, 1096
Stoner temperature 1098, 1098F, 1099
Stoner theory 105
Stoner–Wohlfarth itinerant electron model 900
Stoner–Wohlfarth model 447, 583, 887, 907, 923
nanoparticles 971, 973
Stoner–Wohlfarth single domain theory 1248
Stone–Wales transformations, and fullerene formation 237
strains
dislocations (materials) 528
large, magnetic transition 535
stresses
dislocations (materials) 528
residual 446
stress fields, dislocations (materials) 529
strip casting, processes 879
strongly correlated electron systems (SCES) 136–148, 733,
734F
reviews 146
and superconductivity 144
strong magnetic materials 268
definition 268
half-metallicity 268
strontium calcium copper oxides
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy 288, 288F
energy–momentum distributions 289F
bilayer splitting 288
strontium–chromium–gallium oxides, frustration 705
strontium copper oxide chloride
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy 285
quasiparticles, energy dispersion 286F
strontium–copper oxides
magnetic excitation spectra 64F
spin-ladder systems 58, 58F,63
strontium ruthenate
Fermi surfaces 685, 687F
FFT spectra 686F
strontium titanate
applications, substrates 87–88, 91, 296
epitaxy 353
surface images 297F, 298F
structural dynamics, and nuclear resonance scattering
995
STs see spin transitions (STs)
sudden heart death, risk assessment 1111
sulfur trioxide radicals
applications, electron spin resonance dosimetry 165
formation 165
superconducting cables
applications, high-field 1190–1195
future research 1193
manufacture 1201
materials 1198–1208, 1190
multistage 1190F
processing 1198–1208
strand 1190
topologies 1190
see also cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC); Rutherford
cables
superconducting current comparators (SCCs)
applications, in resistance ratio bridges 918, 918F
development 917
in metrology 917–919
principles 917
Type I 917, 917F
Type II 917–918
1331
Subject Index superconducting current comparators (SCCs)