Manipulated structure effects in materials properties

超薄磁性薄膜被用于各种技术设备中，能够以可预测的方式操纵这些薄膜的性能，为改进现有设备和设计新设备提供了令人兴奋的机会。材料科学和实验物理学的最新进展使人们有可能通过微观结构改变来操纵材料的性质。然而，原型的生产成本很高。该项目将使用计算机模拟和其他理论方法来研究薄膜的磁性是如何通过这种结构修改而改变的。对微观结构和宏观性质之间关系的基本了解将有助于我们预测如何利用结构修饰来产生新的和所需的磁性薄膜特性。在这项工作的后期阶段，还将考虑对其他具有重要技术意义的材料进行结构修改，如聚合物。

Ultrathin magnetic films are used in a variety of technological devices and the ability to manipulate the properties of these films in a predictable way, offers the exciting opportunity to improve existing devices and design new devices. Recent advances in materials science and experimental physics opens the possibility of manipulating materials properties by microscopic structural modification. However the production of prototypes is expensive. This project will use computer simulations and other theoretical methods to study how the magnetic properties of films are modified by such structural modification. The fundamental understanding of this relationship between microscopic structure and macroscopic properties will contribute to our ability to predict how structural modification can be used to generate novel and desirable characteristics of the magnetic film. In the later stages of this work structural modification of other technologically important materials, such as polymers, will also be considered.