Smart Materials for Ranging Systems

List of Contributors.- Preface.- Magnetic dynamics of co nanospheres: origin of the enhanced anisotropy; J. Bartolomé et al.- Nanoparticles in oxide glasses: magnetic resonance studies; J. Kliava, R. Berger.- Effect of magnetic field on the magnetic state of copper metaborate; G. Petrakovskii et al.- Intrinsically inhomogeneous magnetic states in antiferromagnets in the vicinity of phase transitions induced by magnetic field; V. Eremenko, V. Sirenko.- NMR study of the successive phase transitions in CuB 2 O 4 ; M. Chiba et al.- Magnetic properties of cuprate perovskites; A. Sherman.- Quantum critical phenomena and the anomalous low-temperature properties of the U(Pt, Pd) 3 system; J.J.M. Franse.- The periodic Anderson model in the generating functional approach; Yu.A. Izyumov, D.S. Alexeev.- Orbital ordering and phase separation phenomena in lightly doped manganites; I.O. Troyanchuk et al.- Interface and magnetic characterization of FM/AF/FM multilayers; V.R. Shah et al.- Squid-based magnetic microscope; S. Bondarenko, N. Nakagawa.- Femtosecond ellipsometry: a new tool for the measurement of hot electron momentum relaxation times in metals; V.V. Kruglyakl, R.J. Hicken.- Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys Ni 2+x Mn 1 ; A.N. Vasiliev et al.- Magnetostriction of manganites and cobaltites; H. Szymczak, R. Szymczak.- Structural study of magnetostrictive superconducting compounds; V.V. Eremenko et al.- Subject index.