chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Graded Magnonic Index and Spin Wave Fano Resonances in Magnetic Structures: Excite, Direct, Capture -- chapter 2 Coupled Spin Waves in Magnonic Waveguides -- chapter 3 Tuning of the Spin Wave Band Structure in Nanostructured Iron/Permalloy Nanowire Arrays -- chapter 4 Magnetization Dynamics of Reconfigurable 2D Magnonic Crystals -- chapter 5 Spin Wave Optics in Patterned Garnet -- chapter 6 Spin Waves in Circular and Linear Chains of Discrete Magnetic Elements -- chapter 7 Magnonic Grating Coupler Effect and Microwave-to-Magnon Transducers for Exchange-Dominated Spin Waves -- chapter 8 Spin Waves on Spin Structures: Topology, Localization, and Nonreciprocity -- chapter 9 Steering Magnons by Noncollinear Spin Textures -- chapter 10 Current-Induced Spin Wave Doppler Shift -- chapter 11 Excitation and Amplification of Propagating Spin Waves by Spin Currents -- chapter 12 Propagating Spin Waves in Nanocontact Spin Torque Oscillators -- chapter 13 Parametric Excitation and Amplification of Spin Waves in Ultrathin Ferromagnetic Nanowires by Microwave Electric Field.

"Since the publication of the first edition of Spin-Wave Confinement, the magnetic community's interest in dynamic excitations in magnetic systems of reduced dimensions has been increasing. Although the concept of spin waves and their Qur?anta (magnons) as propagating excitation of magnetic media was introduced more than 80 years ago, this field has been repeatedly bringing us fascinating new physical phenomena. The successful development of magnonics as an emerging subfield of spintronics, which considers confined spin waves as a basis for smaller, faster, more robust, and more power-efficient electronic devices, inevitably demands reduction in the sizes and dimensions of the magnetic systems being studied.The unique features of magnons, including the possibility of carrying spin information over relatively long distances, the possibility of achieving submicrometer wavelength at microwave frequencies, and controllability by electronic signal via magnetic fields, make magnonic devices distinctively suited for implementation of novel integrated electronic schemes characterized by high speed, low power consumption, and extended functionalities. Edited by S. O. Demokritov, a prominent magnonics researcher who has successfully collected the results of cutting-edge research by almost all main players in the field, this book is for everyone involved in nanotechnology, spintronics, magnonics, and nanomagnetism."--Provided by publisher.