Magnetic multilayers and giant magnetoresistance : fundamentals and industrial applications

1 Introduction.- 2 Progress in Magnetooptical Data Storage.- 3 Layered Magnetic Structures: Interlayer Exchange Coupling and Giant Magnetresistance.- 4 Giant Magnetoresistance in Exchange-Biased Spin-Valve Layered Structures and its Application in Read Heads.- 5 Experiments on the Perpendicular Giant Magnetoresistancein Magnetic Multilayers.- 6 Physics of and Methods for Studying Metallic Multilayers with Interlayer Exchange Coupling and GMR Response.- 7 Nonlinear Magnetooptics for Magnetic Thin Films.