North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982. 824 p. ISBN:
978-0-444-86378-2
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 monumental 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 coverage 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.
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 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!
The publication of Volumes 1 and 2 took place in 1980 and produced entirely satisfactory results. Many of the articles have already been widely quoted in the scientific literature as giving authoritative accounts of the mode status of the subject. One book reviewer paid us the compliment of calling the work a champion although with the proviso that the remaining two volumes be published within a reasonable time. The present Volume 3 goes halfway towards this event and contains articles on a variety of subjects. There is a certain degree of coherence in the topics treated here but this is not ideal due to the somewhat random arrival of articles. The same will be the case for the remaining Volume 4 as such, although this will then complete the work so as to finally produce a fully coherent account of all aspects of this subject.
Three of the authors of Volume 3 are members of the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven and, as already noted in the Preface to Volumes 1 and 2, this organization has been of immense help in making this enterprise possible. The North-Holland Publishing Company has continued to bring its professionalism to bear on this project and Dr. W. Montgomery, in particular, has been
of the greatest help with Volume
3. Finally, I would like to thank all the authors of Volume 3 for their co-operation, with the profoundest hope that those of Volume 4 will shortly do likewise!
Preface.
Table of Contents.
List of Contributors.
Magnetism and Magnetic Materials: Historical Developments and Present Role in Industry and Technology.
Permanent Magnets; Theory.
The Structure and Properties of Alnico Permanent Magnet Alloys.
Oxide Spinels.
Fundamental Properties of Hexagonal Ferrites with Magnetoplumbite Structure.
Properties of Ferroxplana-Type Hexagonal Ferrites.
Hard Ferrites and Plastoferrites.
Sulphospinels.
Transport Properties of Ferromagnets.
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 monumental 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 coverage 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.
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 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!
The publication of Volumes 1 and 2 took place in 1980 and produced entirely satisfactory results. Many of the articles have already been widely quoted in the scientific literature as giving authoritative accounts of the mode status of the subject. One book reviewer paid us the compliment of calling the work a champion although with the proviso that the remaining two volumes be published within a reasonable time. The present Volume 3 goes halfway towards this event and contains articles on a variety of subjects. There is a certain degree of coherence in the topics treated here but this is not ideal due to the somewhat random arrival of articles. The same will be the case for the remaining Volume 4 as such, although this will then complete the work so as to finally produce a fully coherent account of all aspects of this subject.
Three of the authors of Volume 3 are members of the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven and, as already noted in the Preface to Volumes 1 and 2, this organization has been of immense help in making this enterprise possible. The North-Holland Publishing Company has continued to bring its professionalism to bear on this project and Dr. W. Montgomery, in particular, has been
of the greatest help with Volume
3. Finally, I would like to thank all the authors of Volume 3 for their co-operation, with the profoundest hope that those of Volume 4 will shortly do likewise!
Preface.
Table of Contents.
List of Contributors.
Magnetism and Magnetic Materials: Historical Developments and Present Role in Industry and Technology.
Permanent Magnets; Theory.
The Structure and Properties of Alnico Permanent Magnet Alloys.
Oxide Spinels.
Fundamental Properties of Hexagonal Ferrites with Magnetoplumbite Structure.
Properties of Ferroxplana-Type Hexagonal Ferrites.
Hard Ferrites and Plastoferrites.
Sulphospinels.
Transport Properties of Ferromagnets.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Materials Index.