3.45 | Spring 2004 | Graduate

Magnetic Materials

Course Description

This course will cover the following topics:

  • Magnetostatics

  • Origin of magnetism in materials

  • Magnetic domains and domain walls

  • Magnetic anisotropy

  • Reversible and irreversible magnetization processes

  • Hard and soft magnetic materials

  • Magnetic recording

Special …

This course will cover the following topics:

  • Magnetostatics

  • Origin of magnetism in materials

  • Magnetic domains and domain walls

  • Magnetic anisotropy

  • Reversible and irreversible magnetization processes

  • Hard and soft magnetic materials

  • Magnetic recording

Special topics include magnetism of thin films, surfaces and fine particles; transport in ferromagnets, magnetoresistive sensors, and amorphous magnetic materials.

Learning Resource Types
Problem Sets with Solutions
Exams with Solutions
Photo of magnetic nanodots, 60 x 200 nm in a regular array.
Future magnetic recording media may take the form of large-area uniform arrays of magnetic nano-dots, fabricated by x-ray interference lithography. (Photo courtesy of Prof. Caroline Ross. Used with permission.)