MSE506 Magnetic Materials

Instructor: Dr Saaminathan

The level of treatment for this course presumes familiarity with differential calculus as well as introductory atomic physics ands quantum mechanics of solids. The course moves from observation to understanding of magnetic phenomena at increasing levels of sophistication. The characteristics of magnetic materials are treated in the context of related effects in other materials. For example, magnetic and electric polarization and susceptibility are treated in parallel; ferromagnetism is compared to ferroelectricity; the reasons for ferromagnetic spin alignment are contrasted with superconducting spin pairing; magnetic anisotropy and magnetostriction are compared with anisotropic elecstric polarization, electrostriction and piezoelectricity.

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