Abstract
In the following text an attempt has been made to condense the main points of the MEIPIC-2 conference, to correlate certain results scattered over different contributions, to give some comments, suggestions for future work and a few historical reference points. Those contributions which have been less discussed, reflect simply the incompetence of the writer and not a ranking. The names in brackets without indication of the year represent authors of these Proceedings (see AUTHOR INDEX). The other references with numbers are given at the end of this Introduction. The subdivision in Sections 01. to 10. is a pragmatic one, implying many crossovers.
Key Words:
- Magnetoelectric effect (linear and higher order)
- piezomagnetoelectric effect
- linear magneto-optic effect
- piezomagnetic effect
- magnetic symmetry
- time parity violation
- relativistic symmetries
- crystal optics
- quasimoving crystals
- toroidal moments
- nano-engineering
- magnetoelectric spin chirality control
- high magnetic fields (static and pulsed)
- magnetoelectric materials
- domains antiferromagnetic
- ferromagnetic
- ferroelectric
- ferroelastic
- chiral
- magnetoelectric composites
- elementary excitations
- antiferromagnetic resonance
- magneto-optics
- Sagnac interferometer
- magnetic quadrupole fields
- magnetoelectric measurements
- surface magnetoelectricity
- crystal defects
- magnetic ferroelectrics
- ferromagnetic
- antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric
- “spin ferroelectricity”
- phase transitions
- incommensurate phases
- critical exponent