Course Highlights
This course features problem sets with solutions and student projects.
Course Description
This course will cover the following topics:
- Magnetostatics
- Origin of magnetism in materials
- Magnetic domains and domain walls
- Magnetic anisotropy
- Reversible and irreversible magnetization processes
- Hard and soft magnetic materials
- Magnetic recording
Special topics include magnetism of thin films, surfaces and fine particles; transport in ferromagnets, magnetoresistive sensors, and amorphous magnetic materials.
