Magnetic Materials
MIT's graduate course on the physics and engineering of magnetic materials, covering magnetostatics, the atomic origins of magnetism, domain structure and domain walls, magnetic anisotropy, and the reversible and irreversible processes that determine how a material magnetizes. It contrasts hard and soft magnetic materials and their use in magnetic recording, then moves into specialized topics: magnetism in thin films, surfaces, and fine particles, transport behavior in ferromagnets, magnetoresistive sensors, and amorphous magnetic materials. Materials are the standard MIT OpenCourseWare package, lecture notes and readings organized around this topic sequence, offered free with no certificate. The course suits students with a physics or materials science background looking for a systematic treatment of magnetism rather than a survey, built around MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering curriculum.