Acknowledgements |
Introduction / 1: |
References |
Units of magnetic properties / Appendix: |
Magnetic Gibbs free energy / 2: |
Introductionary remarks / 2.1: |
Magnetic energy terms / 2.2: |
Exchange energy / 2.2.1: |
Short-range exchange interactions / 2.2.1.1: |
Long-range exchange interactions / 2.2.1.2: |
Magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy / 2.2.2: |
Magnetostatic energies / 2.2.3: |
Elastic potential of a ferromagnet / 2.2.4: |
Strain tensor in ferromagnetic materials / 2.2.4.1: |
Determination of strain tensors / 2.2.4.2: |
Derivation of the magnetoelastic potential / 2.2.4.3: |
Summary / 2.3: |
Basic micromagnetic equilibrium conditions / 3: |
Static micromagnetic equations / 3.1: |
Micromagnetic equations in polar coordinates / 3.2: |
Micromagnetic equations in terms of swirls and magnetic chares / 3.3: |
Linearized micromagnetic equations / 3.4: |
Domain walls in crystalline and amorphous solids / 4: |
General remarks / 4.1: |
Bloch walls / 4.2: |
Effect of magnetostrictive deformations / 4.3: |
Effect of internal stresses / 4.4: |
Bloch walls in cubic crystals / 4.5: |
Neel walls in bulk materials and thin films / 4.6: |
Neel walls in bulk crystals / 4.6.1: |
Neel walls in thin films / 4.6.3: |
Phase diagrams of Neel and Bloch walls in thin films / 4.6.4: |
Interaction of domain walls with defects / 5: |
Interaction energy of domain walls with point defects / 5.1: |
180[degree]-wall in amorphous alloys with uniaxial anisotropy / 5.3: |
180[degree]-wall in [alpha]-Fe / 5.4: |
Interaction forces of domain walls with point defects / 5.5: |
Interaction of Bloch walls with dislocations / 5.6: |
Straight dislocation lines / 5.6.1: |
Dislocations of length l parallel to the domain wall plane (x, y) / 5.6.1.1: |
Dislocations intersecting the domain walls / 5.6.1.2: |
Straight dislocation dipoles / 5.6.2: |
Dislocation loops / 5.6.3: |
Interaction of domain walls with planar defects / 5.7: |
Pinning by thin planar defects / 5.7.1: |
Pinning by extended planar defects / 5.7.2: |
Pinning by phase boundaries / 5.7.3: |
Coercivity of modern magnetic materials / 6: |
Micromagnetism of hard magnetic materials / 6.1: |
Homogeneous rotation / 6.2.1: |
Inhomogeneous rotation by the curling mode / 6.2.2: |
Inhomogeneous rotation by the buckling mode / 6.2.3: |
Critical diameters of single domain particles / 6.2.4: |
Thermal stability limit / 6.2.4.1: |
Crossover diameter for nucleation processes / 6.2.4.2: |
Critical diameter for domain formation / 6.2.4.3: |
Comparison with experiment / 6.2.5: |
Nucleation under oblique magnetic fields / 6.3: |
Curling mode / 6.3.1: |
Nucleation in magnetically soft regions / 6.4: |
Nucleation in inhomogeneous misaligned grains / 6.5: |
Micromagnetic analysis of the coercive field of modern permanent magnets / 6.6: |
Nucleation versus pinning / 6.6.1: |
Analysis of the temperature dependence of the coercive field / 6.6.2: |
Nanocrystalline and composite nanocrystalline magnets / 6.6.3: |
Nanostructured, nanocrystalline Sm[subscript 2]Co[subscript 17]-based permanent magnets / 6.6.4: |
Alternative coercivity models - the nucleus expansion model / 6.7: |
Statistical theory of domain wall pinning / 7: |
Statistical pinning potential / 7.1: |
Applications of the statistical pinning theory / 7.2: |
Dislocations in crystalline metals / 7.2.1: |
Dislocation dipoles / 7.2.2: |
Point defects / 7.2.3: |
Amorphous alloys / 7.2.4: |
Intrinsic fluctuations of exchange and local anisotropy energy / 7.2.4.1: |
Internal stress sources / 7.2.4.2: |
Coercive field due to surface irregularities / 7.2.4.3: |
Nanocrystalline alloys / 7.2.5: |
Law of approach to ferromagnetic saturation and high-field susceptibility / 8: |
Approach to saturation in uniaxial crystals / 8.1: |
Approach to saturation in cubic crystals / 8.3: |
Approach to saturation in the presence of stress sources / 8.4: |
Isotropic spherical defects / 8.4.1: |
Dislocation groups / 8.4.3: |
Anisotropy of the high-field susceptibility / 8.4.6: |
Magnetostatic fluctuations / 8.4.8: |
Magnetocrystalline fluctuations / 8.4.8.3: |
Magnetoelastic fluctuations / 8.4.8.4: |
Analysis of experimental results / 8.4.8.5: |
Nonmagnetic holes and nonferromagnetic precipitations / 8.4.9: |
Microstructure and domain patterns / 9: |
Origin of domain patterns / 9.1: |
Laminar domain patterns / 9.2: |
Landau structure / 9.2.1: |
Kittel structure / 9.2.2: |
Partial Landau-Kittel structure / 9.2.3: |
Kittel-type structure for in-plane easy direction / 9.2.4: |
The [mu]* -correction / 9.2.5: |
Branching of domains in hard magnetic materials / 9.2.6: |
Domain patterns in amorphous alloys / 9.3: |
As-quenched amorphous alloys / 9.3.1: |
Magnetic annealing of amorphous alloys / 9.3.2: |
Domain structure and magnetization processes / 9.3.3: |
Stress-induced magnetic anisotropy / 9.3.4: |
Stripe domains in thin ferromagnetic films / 9.4: |
Dislocations and domain patterns / 9.5: |
Domain patterns in plastically deformed Ni-single crystals / 9.5.1: |
Domain patterns in plastically deformed Fe-single crystals / 9.5.3: |
Micromagnetic background of the magnetoelastic coupling energy due to dislocations / 9.5.4: |
Ripple structures / 9.5.5: |
Magnetic after-effects in amorphous alloys / 10: |
Double-well model of magnetic after-effects in amorphous alloys / 10.1: |
Stabilization energy of domain walls / 10.3: |
Formation of induced anisotropy / 10.4: |
Basic experimental results / 10.5: |
Concluding remarks / 10.6: |
Magnetostriction in amorphous and polycrystalline ferromagnets / 11: |
Outline of the problems / 11.1: |
Polycrystalline model of amorphous ferromagnets / 11.2: |
Basic computational ideas / 11.3: |
Mathematical formalism / 11.4: |
Balance-of-force method / 11.4.1: |
Incompatibility method / 11.4.2: |
Zeroth- and first-order terms / 11.4.3: |
Results for the saturation magnetostriction of ferromagnets / 11.5: |
Field dependence of magnetostriction / 11.6: |
Appendix |
Micromagnetic theory of phase transitions in spatially disordered spin systems / 12: |
Classification of disordered spin systems / 12.1: |
Phase transition in random exchange ferromagnets / 12.2: |
Critical behaviour / 12.2.1: |
Crossover regime to mean field behaviour / 12.2.2: |
Molecular field theory and Landau-Ginzburg theory / 12.3: |
Extended Landau-Ginzburg theory / 12.4: |
Correlated molecular field theory / 12.5: |
Physical motivation / 12.5.1: |
Calculation of the paramagnetic zero-field susceptibility / 12.5.2: |
Random ferrimagnets, spin glasses and random anisotropy magnets / 12.6: |
Dynamic correlated molecular field theory / 12.7: |
Computational micromagnetism of thin platelets and small particles / 13: |
Applications of the finite difference method / 13.1: |
Applications of the finite element method / 13.3: |
Discretization and adaptive mesh refinement / 13.3.1: |
Discretization of the Gibbs free energy used for computational micromagnetism / 13.3.2: |
Magnetic structures and magnetization processes in thin platelets / 13.3.3: |
Magnetic structures and magnetization processes in small particles / 13.3.4: |
Soft magnetic particles in a hard magnetic matrix / 13.3.5: |
Assemblies of nanocrystalline grains / 13.3.6: |
Computational micromagnetism of dynamic magnetization processes / 14: |
Landau-Lifshitz and Gilbert equations / 14.1: |
Characteristic time ranges / 14.2: |
Magnetization reversal in thin films / 14.3: |
Discretization of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation / 14.4: |
Dynamic nucleation field / 14.5: |
Dynamics of thermally activated reversal processes / 14.6: |
Thermal fluctuations / 14.6.1: |
Thermally activated relaxation / 14.6.2: |
Scaling laws of the statistical pinning theory |
Index |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction / 1: |
References |
Units of magnetic properties / Appendix: |
Magnetic Gibbs free energy / 2: |
Introductionary remarks / 2.1: |