North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980. 603 p. ISBN:
978-0-444-85311-0
This Handbook on the Properties of Magnetically Ordered Substances, Ferromagnetic Materials, is intended as a comprehensive work of reference and textbook at the same time. As such it aims to encompass the achievements both of earlier compilations of tables and of earlier monographs. In fact, one aim of those who have helped to prepare this work has been to produce a worthy
successor to Bozorth's classical and monomental book on Ferromagnetism, published some 30 years ago. This older book contained a mass of information, some of which is still valuable and which has been used very widely as a work of reference. It also contained in its text a remarkably broad converage of the scientific and technological background.
One man can no longer prepare a work of this nature and the only possibility was to produce several edited volumes containing review articles. The authors of these articles were intended to be those who are still active in research and development and sufficiently devoted to their calling and to their fellow scientists and technologists to be prepared to engage in the heavy tasks facing them. The reader and user of the Handbook will have to judge as to the success of the
choice made.
One drawback of producing edited volumes is clearly the impossibility of having all the articles ready within a time span sufficiently short for the whole work, once ready, to be up-to-date. This is an effect occurring every time an editor of such a work engages in his task and has been found to be particularly marked in the present case, as might have been expected. Hence a decision was made to edit the first two volumes of the projected four volume work on the basis of the articles available about the end of 1978. Again, the reader must judge whether on balance the lack of a complete logical order of the articles in these two volumes is outweighed by their immediacy and topicality. The future of the work is in the hands of the remaining authors. The projected remaining two volumes will complete a broad and comprehensive coverage of the whole field.
Each author had before him the task of producing a description of material properties in graphical and tabular form in a broad background of discussion of the physics, chemistry, metallurgy, structure and, to a lesser extent, engineering aspects of these properties. In this way, it was hoped to produce the required combined comprehensive work of reference and textbook. The success of the work will be judged perhaps more on the former than on the latter aspect. Ferromagnetic materials are used in remarkably many technological fields, but those engaged on research and development in this fascinating subject often feel themselves as if in a strife for superiority against an opposition based on other physical phenomena such as semiconductivity. Let the present Handbook be a suitable and effective weapon in this strife!
I have to thank many people and it gives me great pleasure to do so. I have had nothing but kindness and cooperation from the North-Holland Publishing Company, and in referring only to P.S.H. Bolman by name I do not wish to detract from the other members of this institution who have also helped. In the same way, I am deeply grateful to many people at the Philips Research
Laboratory, Eindhoven, who gave me such useful advice in the early stages. Again, I wish to mention in particular H.P.J. Wijn and A.R. Miedema, without prejudice. Finally, I would like to thank all the authors of this Handbook, particularly those who submitted their articles on time!
Preface.
Table of Contents.
List of Contributors.
Iron, Cobalt and Nickel.
Dilute Transition Metal Alloys: Spin Glasses.
Rare Earth Metals and Alloys.
Rare Earth Compounds.
Actinide Elements and Compounds.
Amorphous Ferromagnets.
Magnetostrictive Rare Earth-Fe2 Compounds.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Materials Index.
This Handbook on the Properties of Magnetically Ordered Substances, Ferromagnetic Materials, is intended as a comprehensive work of reference and textbook at the same time. As such it aims to encompass the achievements both of earlier compilations of tables and of earlier monographs. In fact, one aim of those who have helped to prepare this work has been to produce a worthy
successor to Bozorth's classical and monomental book on Ferromagnetism, published some 30 years ago. This older book contained a mass of information, some of which is still valuable and which has been used very widely as a work of reference. It also contained in its text a remarkably broad converage of the scientific and technological background.
One man can no longer prepare a work of this nature and the only possibility was to produce several edited volumes containing review articles. The authors of these articles were intended to be those who are still active in research and development and sufficiently devoted to their calling and to their fellow scientists and technologists to be prepared to engage in the heavy tasks facing them. The reader and user of the Handbook will have to judge as to the success of the
choice made.
One drawback of producing edited volumes is clearly the impossibility of having all the articles ready within a time span sufficiently short for the whole work, once ready, to be up-to-date. This is an effect occurring every time an editor of such a work engages in his task and has been found to be particularly marked in the present case, as might have been expected. Hence a decision was made to edit the first two volumes of the projected four volume work on the basis of the articles available about the end of 1978. Again, the reader must judge whether on balance the lack of a complete logical order of the articles in these two volumes is outweighed by their immediacy and topicality. The future of the work is in the hands of the remaining authors. The projected remaining two volumes will complete a broad and comprehensive coverage of the whole field.
Each author had before him the task of producing a description of material properties in graphical and tabular form in a broad background of discussion of the physics, chemistry, metallurgy, structure and, to a lesser extent, engineering aspects of these properties. In this way, it was hoped to produce the required combined comprehensive work of reference and textbook. The success of the work will be judged perhaps more on the former than on the latter aspect. Ferromagnetic materials are used in remarkably many technological fields, but those engaged on research and development in this fascinating subject often feel themselves as if in a strife for superiority against an opposition based on other physical phenomena such as semiconductivity. Let the present Handbook be a suitable and effective weapon in this strife!
I have to thank many people and it gives me great pleasure to do so. I have had nothing but kindness and cooperation from the North-Holland Publishing Company, and in referring only to P.S.H. Bolman by name I do not wish to detract from the other members of this institution who have also helped. In the same way, I am deeply grateful to many people at the Philips Research
Laboratory, Eindhoven, who gave me such useful advice in the early stages. Again, I wish to mention in particular H.P.J. Wijn and A.R. Miedema, without prejudice. Finally, I would like to thank all the authors of this Handbook, particularly those who submitted their articles on time!
Preface.
Table of Contents.
List of Contributors.
Iron, Cobalt and Nickel.
Dilute Transition Metal Alloys: Spin Glasses.
Rare Earth Metals and Alloys.
Rare Earth Compounds.
Actinide Elements and Compounds.
Amorphous Ferromagnets.
Magnetostrictive Rare Earth-Fe2 Compounds.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Materials Index.