This book introduces and explains the basic physics and applications of a variety of spin-dependent transport phenomena in magnetic nano-structures.

Amorphous materials differ significantly from their crystalline counterparts in several ways that create unique issues in their use. This book explores these issues and their implications, and provides a full treatment of both experimental and theoretical studies in the field.
Advances in Amorphous Semiconductors covers a wide range of studies on hydrogenated amorphous silicon, amorphous chalcogenides, and some oxide glasses. It reviews structural properties, properties associated with the charge carrier-phonon interaction, defects, electronic transport, photoconductivity, and some...

Materials where electrons show nearly localized rather than itinerant behaviour, such as the high-temperature superconducting copper oxides, or manganate oxides, are attracting interest due to their physical properties and potential applications. For these materials, the interaction between electrons, or electron correlation, plays an important role in describing their electronic strucuture, and the standard methods for the calculation of their electronic spectra based on the local density approximation (LDA) breakdown. This is the first attempt to describe recent approaches that go beyond...

Examining new applications and developments, Core Level Spectroscopy of Solids examines fundamental and theoretical aspects of x-ray and electron spectroscopies, including x-ray absorption, x-ray photoemission, Auger electron spectroscopy, and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. The book explains which models are appropriate for which systems and spectroscopies. The emphasis on interpreting these spectroscopies stems from models based on charge transfer multiplet theory. Presenting a large range of new applied spectroscopy developments and containing more than 150 illustrations, Core Level...