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Summary
Summary
Understanding the properties of magnetic materials underlies many of today's technological advances. The range of applications in which they are centrally involved includes audio, video and computer technology, telecommunications, automotive sensors, electric motors, medical imaging, energy supply and transportation. This two-volume work deals with the basic phenomena that govern the magnetic properties of matter, with magnetic materials and with the applications in science, technology and medicine. A phenomenological description of the mechanisms involved has been deliberately chosen in most chapters in order for the book to be useful to a wide readership. The emphasis is explaining, rather than attempting to calculate, the mechanisms underlying the exchange interaction and magnetocrystalline anisotropy, which lead to magnetic order, hence to useful materials. Volume II introduces magnetic effects at the atomic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels, and a presentation of magneto-caloric, magneto-elastic, magneto-optical and magneto-transport coupling effects.
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These volumes are versions of the works published in 2002, originally published in French with corrections and additions. The first volume of a two volume set, Fundamentals includes contributions from 21 experts. Unlike most advanced treatises on magnetism, which take a quantum mechanical approach, this work uses a phenomenological one. Fundamentals looks at this phenomenological approach with some historical background, followed by a study of phenomena at several scales. The rest of the volume is divided between the theoretical approach, which looks at the microscopic and macroscopic level, and coupling phenomena. The broad areas mentioned above are discussed in great detail with different expert authors for various subsections. This reviewer was concerned that this treatment would make the book look like just a collection of papers; it does not. The order of material is carefully and well chosen and the authors, as nearly as can be determined, have done a good job of realizing the context of their contribution. The second volume of this set, like the first, uses a phenomenological approach. Materials and Applications studies permanent magnets, magnetically soft materials, superconductors, thin films, and ferrofluids. It also has a section on applications such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), practical instrumentation, and applications to the life sciences. The broad areas mentioned above are covered in great detail with different expert authors for various subsections. These volumes are written at an advanced level, beyond that of most undergraduate course work. Included with many sections are problems and solutions. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Graduate students; faculty and researchers. E. Kincanon Gonzaga University
Table of Contents
| Foreword |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgements |
| Magnetism, from the dawn of civilization to today |
| Magnetostatics |
| Phenomenology of magnetism at the macroscopic scale; Phenomenology of magnetism at the microscopic scale |
| Ferromagnetism of an ideal system |
| Irreversibility of magnetization processes, and hysteresis in real ferromagnetic materials: the role of defects |
| Magnetism in the localixed electron model |
| Magnetism in the itinerant electron model |
| Exchange interactions |
| Thermodynamic aspects of magnetism |
| Magnetocaloric coupling and related effects |
| Magnetoelastic effects |
| Magneto-optical effects |
| Magnetic resistivity, magnetoresistance, and the Hall effect |
| Appendices |
| General references |
| Index by materials |
| Index by subject |
