Supermagnets, Hard Magnetic Materials

1. Historical Background and Introduction to Hard Magnetic Materials.- 2. An Outline of the Prehistory of Magnetism.- 3. Fundamental Concepts and Units in Magnetism.- 4. Novel Permanent Magnet Materials.- 5. Structural Characteristics and Rapid Solidification of Nd2Fe14B-Type Permanent Magnet Materials.- 6. An Introduction to Crystal Field Effects in Magnetism.- 7. Crystal-Field and Exchange Interactions in Hard Magnetic Materials.- 8. Electronic Structure Calculations for Rare Earth-Transition Metal Compounds.- 9. Phase Diagrams for Permanent Magnet Materials.- 10. Intrinsic Properties and Coercivity of Sm-Fe-TM Phases.- 11. Spin-Reorientation Transitions in Intermetallic Compounds.- 12. Some Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Results on Nd-Fe-B Phases.- 13. Domain Wall NMR in Anisotropic Ferromagnets. Application to the System RE-(CoFe)-B.- 14. The Mössbauer Effect and its Application to Hard Permanent Magnetic Materials.- 15. Thermal, Magnetic, Magnetoelastic, and Transport Characterization of Hard Magnetic Alloys.- 16. Fundamentals of Magnetic Anisotropy in Rare Earth-Iron Intermetallic Compounds.- 17. Crystal Fields in Y2-xErxFe14B from Magnetic Torque Measurements.- 18. Determination of the Anisotropy Field by the Singular Point Detection Method.- 19. Micromagnetic Background of Hard Magnetic Materials.- 20. Neutron Spectroscopy and Magnetic Excitations in Supermagnets.- 21. Structure and Properties of Ternary Fe-Rich Rare Earth Carbides.- 22. Metastable Phases and their Role in Permanent Magnet Manufacturing.- 23. Preparation and Properties of Mechanically Alloyed Nd-Fe-B Magnets.- 24. Review of Permanent Magnet Applications and the Potential for High Energy Magnets.- 25. Magnet Design and Analysis Techniques.- 26. Permanent Magnet Machines.- 27. Design and Performanceof Synchronous Motors with Nd-Fe-B Magnets.- 28. Alternative Topologies of Brushless DC Machines for Power Applications.- 29. Electrical Machine Design with Combined Field-Coil and Magnet Excitation.- 30. Simulation of Permanent Magnet Motor Drives.- Appendix List of ASI Participants.- Author Index.