edited by M G Cottam (Univ. Western Ontario)

In the past few years, there has been a rapidly growing interest in the properties of spin waves (or magnons) in ordered magnetic materials. These are the low-lying excitations that characterize the dynamical behavior of the magnetization variables in ferromagnets, ferrimagnets and antiferromagnets, particularly at low temperatures. Many of the recent developments concerning spin waves have been directed towards understanding their behavior in limited magnetic samples. At the same time, there have been dramatic advances in the experimental techniques, both for preparing high-quality magnetic samples in the form of thin films and superlattices and for the study of the spin-wave excitations themselves. Magnetic thin films have long been of technological as well as scientific interest and an understanding of both the linear and nonlinear aspects of their magnetic behavior is important.

• Fundamentals of Linear and Nonlinear Spin-Wave Processes in Bulk and Finite Magnetic Samples (M G Cottam & A N Slavin)
• Dipole-Exchange Spin-Wave Spectrum of Magnetic Films (B A Kalinikos)
• Spin Waves in Multilayers (J Barna∇)
• Spin-Wave Polaritons in Films and Multilayers (D R Tilley)
• Green's Functions in Magnetic Multilayered Structures (R E Camley & R L Stamps)
• Light Scattering and Microwave Resonance Studies of Spin Waves in Metallic Films and Multilayers (J R Dutcher)
• Spin-Wave Instabilities, Auto-Oscillations, Chaos and Control of Chaos in YIG Spheres (S M Rezende et al.)
• Parametric Instabilities and Auto-Oscillation Behavior of Magnetostatic Modes in Magnetic Films (P E Wigen)
• Nonlinear Dynamics of Propagating Spin Waves in Magnetic Films (A N Slavin et al.)