Magnetic Properties of Nanostructures

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	653-3162/02
Abbreviation	MVN
Course title	Magnetic Properties of Nanostructures
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator	Ing. Robin Silber, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Content focus:
1. Magnetic forces, magnetic field, magnetic moment
2. Magnetic properties of solids - atomic origin of magnetism, temperature dependence magnetic properties of materials
3. Magnetic materials
4. Magnetism of nanostructures - magnetic anisotropy, Stoner-Wohlfarthův model
5. Exchange interaction, energy magnetic dipole anisotropy, magneto-crystalline
6. Magnetoelastic anisotropy, magnetostriction
7. Hysteresis loop, domain structure and magnetic domain in nanosystems
8. Micromagnetic modeling
9. Dynamics of magnetization reversal, the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation
10. Experimental methods for studying of magnetic nanostructures
11. Generation of magnetic field
12. Magnetic spectroscopies, vector magnetometry
13. Magnetic microscopy

Literature

BLUNDELL, S., Magnetism in Condensed Matter, Oxford University Press, 2001.
O 'HANDLEY, R. C., Modern Magnetic Materials : Principles and Applications, John Wiley & Sons., 2000.
CULLITY, B. D.: Introduction to Magnetic Materials, Addison-Wesley, (2nd ed. Wiley, 2005).
HUMMEL, R. E.: Electronic properties of materials, 3rd ed., Springer, 2000.
SPALDIN, N. A.: Magnetic Materials, Fundamentals and Device Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Advised literature

NALWA, H. S., Ed., Magnetic nanostructures, Amer Scientific Pub., California, USA, 2002.
COEY, J. M. D, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Cambridge University Press 2009.
BLAND, J. A. C., HEINRICH, B., Eds.: Ultrathin Magnetic Structures I, II, III, IV Springer, Berlin, 1994.
HUBERT, A., SCHAFER, R.: Magnetic domains, Springer, Berlin, 1998.
JILES, D.: Introduction to magnetism and magnetic materials, CRC Press, 1998.

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