SUBJECT INDEX 181
mass susceptibility, 78 rare-earth-based magnets, 119
materials for high-density magnetic recording, 143 rare-earth series, 15
maximum energy product, 105 118
Maxwell’s equations, 79 read-out of written bits, 132, 135, 136
measurement techniques, 85 recoil energy, 108
metallic thin films, 144 recoil line, 108
metal particle (MP) tapes, 144 recoil product, 108
metamagnelic transition, 34 recording head, 159, 160
M-type ferrites, 122 recording process, 160
minority band, 67 reduced magnetization, 25
miscibility gap, 125 reduced matrix elements, 46
molar susceptibility, 78 reduced temperature, 25
molecular field, 20
multiplet, 6
with M = Cu, Mn, Ni
or Mg, 153
compounds, 117
remanence, 105
rigid disk, 142
rigid-disk drives, 145
Russell–Saunders coupling, 6nanocrystalline alloys, 155, 158
nanocrystalline soft-magnetic materials, 155, 158
119
permanent magnets, 119
Néel temperature, 27
Ni–Fe alloys, 149
nucleation field, 113
nucleation of Bloch walls, 113
nucleation-type magnet, 114
oblique-evaporation technique, 144
operator equivalents, 46
optical recording, 131
orbital-angular-momentum quantum number, 3
orbital states of electrons, 3
saturation magnetostriction, 171
second-order crystal-field parameter, 116
second-order Stevens factor, 57
self-consistent energy-band calculations, 168
shape anisotropy, 127
shape of the 4f-charge cloud, 56
short-range ordering, 93
single-domain particles, 159
sintered magnet, 119
sintered magnet bodies, 121
SI units, 79
skew hysteresis loop, 149
Slater–Pauling curve, 69
slip-induced anisotropy, 152
117, 118
118pair ordering, 152
pair-ordering model, 134
paramagnetic Curie temperature, 23, 27
paramagnetism of free ions, 11
particulate media, 140, 143
Pauli’s principle, 4
permalloy, 147
permanent magnets, 105
permanent-magnet materials, 117
perpendicular magnetic recording, 140
pinning-controlled coercivity, 114
pinning-type magnets, 114
point-charge approximation, 52
point-charge model, 45
preferred magnetization directions, 54, 97
preferred moment direction, 57
principal quantum number, 3
production route for permanent
magnets, 119
propagation field for Bloch walls, 113
radius of 4f electron charge cloud, 46
random-anisotropy model, 156
rare-earth-based magnet materials, 119soft ferrites, 153
soft-magnetic materials, 147
specific heat, 91
specific-heat anomaly, 91
specific-heat discontinuity at Curie temperature, 92
spectroscopic splitting factor, 5
spin-down band, 63
spin flop, 33
spin-correlation function, 167
spinodal decomposition, 124
spin-orbit interaction, 6
spin polarization of the 3d band, 64
spin quantum number, 4
spin-reorientation temperature, 118
spin states of electrons, 3
spin-up band, 63
spontaneous magnetization, 19
spontaneous straining of the lattice, 173
spontaneous volume magnetostriction, 166
sputtered Gd–Co films, 134
SQUID magnetometer, 89
statistical average of magnetic moments, 12
Stevens’ operator equivalents, 46
Stoner criterion for ferromagnetism, 65
Stoner enhancement factor, 66
Stoner–Wohlfarth model, 127