Subject Index
adiabatic demagnetization, 94
alloys of rare earths and 3d metals, 70
Alnico, 107
Alnico alloys, 124
Alnico DG, 127
amorphous alloys, 131, 133, 153
amorphous Gd–Fe films, 133
anisotropic distortions, 172
anisotropic magnet, 126
anisotropic sintered magnet, 121
anisotropy constants, 97, 115
anisotropy energy, 97
anisotropy field, 97, 99
anisotropy of magnetization directions, 54
annealing in a magnetic field, 150
antibonding states, 71
antiferromagnet, 26
antiferromagnetic interactions, 22
antiferromagnetism, 26
aspherical 4f–electron charge cloud, 56
asymptotic Curie temperature, 23
axial quadrupole moment, 56
Ba ferrite, 113, 143
Barium Ferrite (BaFe) tapes, 144
122
B–H curve, 106
Bethe–Slater curve, 20
bias sputtering, 134
Bloch walls, 110
Bohr magneton, 4
Boltzmann distribution, 11
bonding states, 71
Brillouin function, 11, 28
caloric effects in magnetic materials, 91
charge cloud of 4f electrons, 56
circular magnetization mode, 140
Co–Cr films, 141, 145
coercive fields, 82
coercivity, 82, 106
coercivity mechanisms, 112
columnar-crystallized Alnico, 128
compensation temperature, 38, 135
compensation point, 38
coupling between the 3d and 4f spins, 72, 73
143
crystal field, 43
crystalline electric field, 43
crystal-field Hamiltonian, 45
crystal-field interaction, 44
crystal-field-induced anisotropy, 54, 115
crystal-field-split states, 47
crystal-field parameters, 50
crystal-field potential, 45
crystal-field-split eigenstates, 50
crystal-field-split levels, 52
Curie constant, 15
Curie law, 13
Curie temperature, 19
Curie–Weiss law, 25
deformation-induced anisotropy, 152
De Gennes factor, 8
demagnetization factor, 79
demagnetizing fields, 78
density of electron states, 63
density of states, 68
diamagnetism, 59
die-pressing of magnetic materials, 121
domain walls, 109
domains, 109
domain-wall-motionmodel, 148
easy-magnetization direction, 97
effective exchange energy, 63
effective moments, 15
electrical-grade steel, 149
electric-field gradient, 56
electronic specific heat, 92
entropy, 93
erasability of written information, 132
exchange-coupled grains, 156
179