"Magnetization reversal in thin films and some relevant experimental methods"**

M. Urbaniak - lecture materials*

1. lecture 1    "Magnetic field and its sources"    

• The beginnings of the science of magnetism
• The field of the currents - Biot-Savart law
• The field of magnetic dipoles
• Magnetic fields in the universe
• Basic magnetic field measurements methods

2. lecture 2    "Magnets and forces in magnetic field"

• Permanent magnets, electromagnets
• Special sources of magnetic field
• Forces in magnetic field

3. lecture 3    "Magnetic hysteresis and basic magnetometry"

• Classification of magnetic materials
• Magnetic hysteresis
• Magnetometry

4. lecture 4    "Magnetic hysteresis – continued"

• General properties of magnetic hysteresis
• Rate-dependent hysteresis
• Preisach model

5. lecture 5    "Magnetic anisotropy"

• Magnetocrystalline anisotropy
• Shape anisotropy
• Surface anisotropy
• Stress anisotropy

6. lecture 6    "Magnetic domains"

• Magnetic domains
• Domain walls
• Single domain particles, superparamagnetism
• Magnetic domains in bulk systems
• Magnetic domains in thin films

7. lecture 7    "Domain walls"CORRECTION

• Domain walls in bulk materials
• Domain walls in thin films
• Domain walls in 1D systems
• Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation – magnetization dynamics

8. lecture 8    "Dynamics of magnetization reversal" CORRECTION

• Domain wall motion
• Micromagnetism
• Magnetostatic interactions in thin films

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* 2012 Institute of Molecular Physics (IFM PAN) lectures
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