MONDAY

September 19, 2005

9:30 - 9:35

OPENING SESSION

Session Chair: A. STANCU

9:35-10:05

I.1

Size effects in ferromagnetic nanostructures

G. Bayreuther

Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg,

D-93040 Regensburg, Germany

10:05 - 10:35

I.2

Magnetic nanostructures: microstructural, magnetic properties and the role of grain boundaries and interfaces

Jean-Marc GRENECHE

Laboratoire de Physique de l´Etat Condensé, UMR CNRS 6087, Université du Maine,

72085 Le Mans, Cedex 9, France

10:35 -11:05

I.3

Evolution of structure and magnetic microstructure of nanoperm nanocrystalline alloy with temperature

Marcel Miglierini

Slovak University of Technology, Department of Nuclear Physics and Technology,

Ilkovičova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia

11:05 -11:30

COFFEE BREAK

Session Chair: J.M. GRENECHE

11:30 - 12:00

I.4

Transport and magnetic properties of ferromagnetic nanostructures: some examples

M. Rahm, K. Wagner, M. Döppe, M. Schlapps, M. Reinwald,

W. Wegscheider, D. Weiss

Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg,

D-93040 Regensburg, Germany

12:00 - 12:30

I.5

Magnetic properties of some nanocrystalline iron – based alloys

E. Burzo¹, C. Djega – Mariadassou²

¹⁾Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

²⁾LCMTR, UPR209, CNRS, 2/8 Bat F Rue Henri Dunant, Thiais, France

12:30 - 13:00

I.6

Structure and interactions in metallic nano – composites and the related material properties

G. Filoti, V. Kuncser and O. Crisan

National Institute for Material Physics, 77125 Bucharest- Magurele, Romania

13:00 - 15:00

LUNCH

Session Chair: G. BAYREUTHER

15:00 - 15:30

I.7

Metastable Cr₂₃C₆ – type nanocrystalline phases in soft magnetic materials

Bogdan Idzikowski

Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,

M. Smoluchowskiego 17 60-179 Poznań, Poland

15:30 - 16:00

I.8

EPR at nanoscale: CMR manganites and iron oxide / PPy composites

L. M. Giurgiu

National Institute for Research and  Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies,

P.O. Box 700, R-400293, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

16:00 - 16:20

O.1

Surface magnetic behaviour and microstructure of Co–rich ferromagnetic ribbons

L. Fernández¹, A. Chizhik¹, N. Iturriza¹, J.J. del Val^1,2, J. González¹

¹Física de Materiales, Fac. de Química, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU),

San Sebastián, Spain

²Unidad de Física de Materiales, Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU,

San Sebastián, Spain

16:20 - 16:50

COFFEE BREAK

16:50 - 18:50

POSTER SESSION I

Session Chair: N. LUPU

19:00 - 20:30

GET-TOGETHER PARTY

TUESDAY

September 20, 2005

Session Chair: D. WEISS

9:30-10:00

I.9

 Enhancement of magnetic anisotropy in Co nanoparticles by metal capping

J. Bartolomé¹, F. Luis¹, F. Bartolomé¹, L.M. García Vinuesa¹,

F. Petroff², V. Cros² and H. Jaffrès²

¹Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza,

50009 Zaragoza, Spain

²Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Domaine de Corbeville,

91404 Orsay, Cedex France

and

Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, Cedex, France

10:00 - 10:30

I.10

Noble-Metal Nanoparticles: Fabrication, Optical Properties, and Applications toward Biology and Nanotechnology

Simion Astilean

Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University,

M. Kogalniceanu 1, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

10:30 -10:50

O.2

Synthesis and magnetic studies of Ni – Zn ferrite nanoparticles

B. Parvatheeswara Rao¹, A. Mahesh Kumar¹, K.H.Rao¹, Y.L.N. Murthy², O.F. Caltun³, I. Dumitru⁴ and L. Spinu⁴

¹Department of Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India

²Department of Organic Chemistry, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, India

³Department of Electricity and Electronics, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania

⁴Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

10:50 -11:20

COFFEE BREAK

Session Chair: J. BARTOLOMÉ

11:20 - 11:50

I.11

Identification procedures for preisach – type models based on FORC diagrams

Alexandru STANCU

Department of Solid State & Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics,

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, 11 Blvd. Carol I, 700506 Iasi, ROMANIA

11:50 - 12:20

I.12

Analysis of magnetic transitions through the magnetoimpedance effect

C. Gómez-Polo, V. Recarte and J.I. Pérez-Landazabal

Departamento de Física, Universidad Pública de Navarra,

Campus de Arrosadia, 31006 Pamplona. Spain

12:20 - 12:50

I.13

Soft magnetic behaviour of nanocrystalline Fe-rich glass covered microwires

C. Garcia¹, A. Zhukov¹, M. Ipatov¹, V. Zhukova^1,2, J.J. del Val^1,3,

J.M. Blanco⁴, V. Larin⁵ and J. González¹

¹Departamento Física de Materiales, Facultad  Química,

Pº Manuel de Lardizabal 3, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain

²TAMAg Ibérica S.L., Parque Tecnológico de Miramón,

Pº Mikeletegi 56, 1ª Planta, 2009 San Sebastián, Spain

³Unidad de Física de Materiales, Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU,

San Sebastián, Spain

⁴Departamento Física Aplicada I, EUP,

Plaza Europa s/n, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain

⁵MFTI, Kishinev, Moldova

12:50 - 15:00

LUNCH

Session Chair: C. GOMEZ-POLO

15:00 - 15:20

O.3

High –frequency GMI effect in glass-coated amorphous wires

C. García^a, A. Zhukov^a,b,*, J. Gonzalez^a, V. Zhukova^c

and J.M. Blanco^b

^aDpto. Física de Materiales, Fac. Quimicas, Universidad del Pais Vasco,

20009 San Sebastian, Spain

^bDpto. Física Aplicada I, EUPSD, UPV/EHU,

Plaza Europa 1, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain

^cTAMAG Ibérica S.L., Parque Tecnológico de Miramón,

Paseo Mikeletegi 56, 1ª Planta, 20009 San Sebastián, Spain

15:20 - 15:50

I.14

Effect of the substrate surface on electrodeposited Ni₈₀Fe₂₀/Cu composite wires

 J.B. Yi¹, X.P. Li^1,2, D. Jun³ and H.L. Seet¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering

²Division of Bioengineering

³Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering

National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260

15:50 - 16:20

I.15

Magnetic corRelation in Co – sputtered Fe_100-xAg_x and Fe_100-xAu_x films trough magnetoresistance MEASUREMENTS

P. Tiberto¹, P. Allia², M. Coisson¹ and F. Vinai¹

¹Materials Department, IEN Galileo Ferraris, Strada delle Cacce 91,I-10135 Torino, Italy

²Physics Dept., Politecnico di Torino and INFM, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, Italy

16:20 - 16:50

I.16

Peculiarities and potentialities of ultra short Pulsed Laser Deposition for the production of magnetic nanogranular films

Luciano Lanotte¹, Giovanni Ausanio¹, Alberto Barone¹, Cornelia Hison²,

Vincenzo Iannotti¹, Salvatore Amoroso³, Marco Vitello³

¹CRS-Coherentia-CNR, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche,

Facoltà di Ingegneria della Università di Napoli “Federico II”,

piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy

²CRS-Coherentia-CNR and Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Materiali e della Produzione,

Facoltà di Ingegneria della Università di Napoli “Federico II”,

piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy

³CRS-Coherentia-CNR, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche della Università di Napoli “Federico II”,

Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli

16:50 - 17:20

COFFEE BREAK

17:20 - 19:20

POSTER SESSION II

Session Chair: E. HRISTOFOROU

20:00 - 23:00

BANQUET

WEDNESDAY

September 21, 2005

Session Chair: M. MIGLIERINI

9:30-10:00

I.17

Characteristics of Atomic Pairs in Bulk Metallic Glasses Analyzed Using Classification of Bulk Metallic Glasses and Pettifor Map

Akira Takeuchi and Akihisa Inoue

Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577 Japan

10:00 - 10:30

I.18

Casting and characterization of Fe–(Cr,Mo,Ga)–(P,C,B) soft magnetic bulk metallic glasses

M. Stoica^1,2, J. Eckert³, S. Roth¹, L. Schultz¹, A. R. Yavari²

¹IFW Dresden, Institute for Metallic Materials, P.O. Box 270016, D-01171 Dresden, Germany

²LTPCM-CNRS UA29, ENSEEG, Institut National Politechnique de Grenoble,

Domain Universitaire, 1130 Rue de la Piscine, BP 75 Saint Martin d’Hères Campus 38402,

France

³ TU Darmstadt, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Physical Metallurgy Division,

Petersenstrasse 23, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany

10:30 -10:50

O.4

Structural relaxation in amorphous Fe₆₈Gd₂Cr₁₀B₂₀ alloy

I. Mihalca¹, V. Kuncser², A. Ercuta³, I. Zaharie¹

¹University “Politehnica”, Physics Department, Timisoara, Romania

²National Institute of Material Physics, Bucuresti, Romania

³West University of Timisoara, Physics Faculty, Timisoara, Romania

10:50 -11:10

O.5

Structural phase tranzition and magnetic properties of mecanoalloyed Gd(FeTi)12 system

C. B. Cizmas¹, E. Dorolti², L. Bessais², C. Djega-Mariadassou²

¹Dept. of Physics, Transilvania University, B-dul Eroilor 29, Brasov-2200, Romania

²LCMTR, UPR-209 CNRS, 2/8 rue Henry Dunant, B.P. 28 F-94320 Thiais, France

11:10 - 11:40

COFFEE BREAK

Session Chair: G. FILOTI

11:40 - 12:00

O.6

Development of a generalized PM² model using micromagnetic data

Laurentiu STOLERIU, Alexandru STANCU

Department of Solid State&Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics,

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, 11 Blvd. Carol I, 700506, Iasi, ROMANIA

12:00 - 12:20

O.7

Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of new Nanocomposite Fe-(Au,Cu)-B alloys

N. Lupu¹, H. Chiriac¹, M. Tibu¹, and A. Inoue²

¹National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics,

47 Mangeron Boulevard, 700050 Iasi, Romania

²Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University,

Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-ku, 980-8577 Sendai, Japan

12:20 - 14:30

LUNCH

Session Chair: B. IDZIKOWSKI

14:30 - 15:00

I.19

New monolithic three dimensional field sensor with high sensitivity

P. Dimitropoulos¹ and E. Hristoforou²

¹EPFL, STI/IMM/LMIS3, BM 3.111, Station 17, CH-1015 Lausanne - Switzerland

²Laboratory of Physical Metallurgy, National Technical University of Athens,

Athens 15780, Greece

15:00 - 15:30

I.20

Magnetic tunnel junctions: from data storage to biological application

B. Negulescu^1,2, P. Freitas¹

¹INESC-MN, 9 Rua Alves Redol, 1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal

²“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Faculty of Physics, 11 Blvd. Carol I, 700506, Iasi, ROMANIA

15:30 - 15:50

O.8

Magnetic and structural characterization of Fe – Ni films developed for MR field sensor applications

J. Petrou¹, P. Dimitropoulos¹, S. Diplas², H. Chiriac³, E. Hristoforou¹

¹National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

²University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

³National Institute of R&D for Technical Physics, Iasi, Romania

15:50 - 16:10

O.9

MI magnetic sensor for biomedical applications

H. Chiriac, D.D. Herea, and M. Tibu

National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics,

47 Mangeron Boulevard, 700050 Iasi, Romania

16:10 - 16:30

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