Research Catalog

Title

Theory of magnetostatic waves / Daniel D. Stancil.

Author

Stancil, Daniel D.

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993], ©1993.

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Description

xi, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Magnetostatics
• Polaritons

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction to Magnetism. 1.1. Magnetic Properties of Materials. 1.2. Spinning Top. 1.3. Magnetism. 1.4. Magnetic Moments of Atoms and Ions. 1.5. Elements Important to Magnetism -- 2. Magnetic Susceptibilities. 2.1. Diamagnetism. 2.2. Paramagnetism. 2.3. Weiss Theory of Ferromagnetism. 2.4. Neel Theory of Ferrimagnetism. 2.5. Exchange Interaction. 2.6. Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy. 2.7. Polder Susceptibility Tensor. 2.8. Magnetic Damping -- 3. Electromagnetic Waves in Anisotropic Dispersive Media. 3.1. Maxwell's Equations. 3.2. Constitutive Relations. 3.3. Instantaneous Poynting Theorem. 3.4. Complex Poynting Theorem. 3.5. Energy Densities in Lossless Dispersive Media. 3.6. Wave Equations. 3.7. Polarization of the Electromagnetic Fields. 3.8. Group and Energy Velocities. 3.9. Plane Wives in a Magnetized Ferrite. 3.10. The Magnetostatic Approximation -- 4. Magnetostatic Modes. 4.1. Walker's Equation. 4.2. Spin Waves. 4.3. Uniform Precession Modes.
• 4.4. Normally Magnetized Film: Forward Volume Waves. 4.5. Tangentially Magnetized Film: Backward Volume Waves. 4.6. Tangentially Magnetized Film: Surface Waves -- 5. Propagation Characteristics and Excitation of Magnetostatic Waves. 5.1. Energy Velocities for Magnetostatic Waves. 5.2. Propagation Loss. 5.3. Mode Orthogonality and Normalization. 5.4. Excitation of Magnetostatic Waves -- 6. Variational Formulation for Magnetostatic Modes. 6.1. General Problem Statement. 6.2. Calculus of Variations. 6.3. Small-Signal Functional for Ferrites. 6.4. Interpretation of the Functional. 6.5. Stationary Formulas. 6.6. Stationary Formula Examples with Forward Volume Waves -- 7. Optical-Magnetostatic Wave Interactions. 7.1. Symmetric Dielectric Waveguides. 7.2. Magneto-Optical Interactions. 7.3. Coupled-Mode Theory. 7.4. Scattering of Optical Guided Modes by Magnetostatic Waves. 7.5. Anisotropic Bragg Diffraction -- Appendix: Properties of Yttrium Iron Garnet.

ISBN

• 0387979697 (New york : acid-free paper)
• 3540979697 (Berlin : acid-free paper)

LCCN

92038633

OCLC

• 26853769
• ocm26853769

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries