Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials

Code: PGEN1076
Course: Master degree in Energy
Credits: 4
Hourly load: 60
Syllabus: Semiclassical Models for the Interaction of Light with Nanoparticles and Thin Films (Drude, Lorentz, Gans, Maxwell-Garnett, Bruggeman); Use of Infrared and Visible Light to Characterize Nanoparticles and Thin Films. Magnetic poles, magnetic moment, magnetization intensity, magnetic dipoles, varieties of magnetism, magnetization curves, hysteresis, and magnetic units in the MKS (SI) system. Types of magnetism in matter, magnetic moment of electrons and atoms; diamagnetism; paramagnetism; ferromagnetism; antiferromagnetism. Magnetic phenomena: magnetic anisotropy; magnetostrition. Commercial magnetic materials: hard and soft materials. Experimental methods: magnetometers, susceptometers, magnetic balance, magneto-optical effect.
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CULLITY, B. D. Introduction to magnetic materials. Londres: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1972.

CHEN, C. Magnetism and metallurgy of soft magnetic materials. New York: Dover Publications, 1986.