edited by L H Bennett (Nat'l Inst. of Standards & Tech.) & R E Watson (Brookhaven Nat'l Lab.)

This book focuses on an increasingly important area of materials science and technology, namely, the fabrication and properties of artificial materials where slabs of magnetized materials are sandwiched between slabs of nonmagnetized materials. It includes reviews by experts on the theory and descriptions of the various experimental techniques such as those using nuclear or electron spin probes, as well as optical, X-ray or neutron probes. It also reviews potential applications such as the giant magnetoresistance, and one specialized preparation technique, the electrodeposition. The various chapters are tutorial in nature, making the subject accessible to nonspecialists, as well as useful to researchers in the field.

• Application of Magnetic Multilayers (M Pardavi-Horvath)
• Magnetic Coupling in Metallic Multilayers (Y Yafet)
• First-Principles Calculations of Magnetic Interfaces and Multilayers (M Weinert ' S Blügel)
• Influence of Imperfections on the Magnetic Properties of Fe/Ag Films and Multilayers (J Pirnay et al.)
• NMR Studies on Magnetic Multilayers (H A M de Gronckel ' W J M de Jonge)
• Conversion Electron Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Magnetic Multilayers (Ch Sauer ' W Zinn)
• Resonance in Coupled Ferromagnetic Layer Structures (P E Wigen)
• Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism (F Baudelet et al.)
• Magneto-Optical Spectra in Multilayers (K Sato)
• Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Magnetic Multilayers (C F Majkrzak et al.)
• Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) in Multilayers (M Pardavi-Horvath)
• Electrodeposited Magnetic Multilayers (M P Dariel et al.)