180 SUBJECT INDEXexchange length, 156
exchange interaction, 20
excited multiplet levels, 15
expectation value of the 4f radius, 46
isotropic magnets, 126
itinerant-electron magnetism, 63
itinerant electron systems, 63
Faraday effect, 136, 146
Faraday method, 86
Fe-based intermetallic compounds, 21
Fe–Al and Fe–Al–Si alloys, 152
Fermi level, 63
Fe–Si alloys, 149
ferrimagnetic compounds, 39
ferrimagnetism, 34
ferromagnetic-exchange length, 156
ferromagnetic materials, 19
ferromagnetism, 22
Ferroxdure, 117
field lines, 78
flux density, 76
flux lines, 78
for the free electron, 5
giant magnetoresistance, 162
Goss texture, 149
Gouy method, 85
grain-oriented Fe–Si, 149
ground-state multiplet level, 6
hard ferrites, 122
head materials, 159
head-to-medium separation, 160
Heisenberg exchange interaction, 19
hexaferrites, 122
HFFP method, 40
high-density recording, 131
high-field susceptibility, 69
high-density magnetic recording materials, 139
Hund’s rules, 7
hysteresis loops, 81, 105
inhomogeneous nucleation, 114
initial permeability, 147
intermetallic compounds, 21, 70
intersublattice coupling, 70
intersublattice interaction, 37
intersublattice-coupling constant, 40
intersublattice-molecular-field constant, 26
intrasublattice interaction, 37
intrasublattice-molecular-field constant, 26
intrinsic coercivity, 80
Invar alloys, 165
Invar properties, 168
ionic properties of iron-group elements, 9
ionic properties of the rare-earth elements, 8
irreversible losses, 109
Kerr effect, 132, 136
Kerr rotation, 136
Langevin formula for diamagnetism, 60
Langevin function, 25
Landé spectroscopic g-factor, 7
lanthanide series, 8
Lenz’s law, 59
ligand ion, 44
liquid-phase sintering, 121
longitudinal magnetic recording, 140
longitudinal recording, 139
Lorentz force, 59
low-field susceptibility, 113
magnetically ordered state, 19
magnetic anisotropy, 97
magnetic cores, 147
magnetic entropy, 94
magnetic-induction heads, 159
magnetic losses, 109, 147
magnetic-ordering, 21
magnetic permeability in vacuum, 75
magnetic polarization, 80
magnetic properties of iron-group elements, 9
magnetic properties of the rare-earth elements, 8
magnetic quantum number, 3
magnetic recording, 139
magnetic-recording medium, 139
magnetic splitting of the ground-multiplet, 16
magnetic susceptibility, 15, 65
magnetic tape, 143
magnetic thin-film media, 144
magnetization reversal, 112
magnet materials, 106
magnetocaloric effect, 91
magnetoelastic effects, 174
magnetoelastic-energy, 174
magnetometer, 87, 89
magneto-optical recording, 131
magneto-optical recording materials, 133
magneto-optical rotation, 136
magnetoresistive effect, 161
magnetoresistive heads, 161
magnetoresistive recording-head, 161
magnetostriction, 171
magnetostrictive constants, 171, 173
magnetostrictive materials, 173
magnetosttictive properties, 173
magnetovolume coupling constant, 167
majority band, 68
manufacturing route for permanent
magnets, 119
magnetovolume effects, 165