J. M. D. Coey leads the Magnetism and Spin Electronics group at Trinity College, Dublin, where he is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. An authority on magnetism and its applications, he has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Irish Academy and the Charles Chree Medal of the Institute of Physics for his work on magnetic materials.
1. Introduction
2. Magnetostatics
3. Magnetism of electrons
4. Magnetism of localized electrons on the atom
5. Ferromagnetism and exchange
6. Antiferromagnetism and other magnetic order
7. Micromagnetism, domains and hysteresis
8. Nanoscale magnetism
9. Magnetic resonance
10. Experimental methods
11. Magnetic materials
12. Applications of soft magnets
13. Applications of hard magnets
14. Spin electronics and magnetic recording
15. Special topics
Appendixes
Index.
