Magnetic Properties of Nanostructures

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	9360-0170/02
Abbreviation	MVN
Course title	Magnetic Properties of Nanostructures
Credits	3
Coordinating department	CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator	doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

Content focus:
- Magnetic properties of solids - atomic origin of magnetism, temperature dependence
magnetic properties of materials, magnetically soft materials based on iron,
amorphous alloys, hard magnetic materials, ferrites, magnetic oxides,
magnetic semiconductors.
- Magnetism of nanostructures - magnetic anisotropy, exchange interaction,
energy magnetic dipole anisotropy, magneto-crystalline
and magnetoelastic anisotropy, Stoner-Wohlfarthův model for magnetic
particles, hysteresis loop, domain structure and magnetic domain
in nanosystems, exchange energy, periodic exchange coupling,
superparamagnetism, micromagnetic modeling, dynamics of magnetization reversal, the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.
- Experimental methods for studying of magnetic nanostructures - generation of magnetic field, magnetic spectroscopies, vector magnetometry, 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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