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Question sessions

The main purpose of a research School is to provide young scientists the basics in a working field. With this respect interactivity between students and lecturers should be promoted. This has first be fulfilled by numerous quick questions raised during or at the end of the lectures. Four sessions of open question have also taken place, during which the lecturers presented in more detail issues raised by the students during the lectures. Some of the issues that were raised are found below. When some slides were used by the lecturers as a support for their explanation, these can be downloaded.

What is an eddy current?
What is the Kerr effect?
What are the points of precessional switching?
MFM contrast
The basics of itinerant magnetism [ Slides]
Overview of the experimental techniques to measure magnetic properties
The basics of magneto-crystalline anisotropy [ Slides]
How to measure the blocking temperature and the Curie temperature separately?
Single domains in permanent magnets: are they single-crystalline or magnetically single-domain?
First-order versus second-ordre transitions
Why does the susceptibility diverge at Tc?
How works the imaging of magnetic domains in antiferromagnetic systems?
Fractal dimension: what is it? How can I calculate it?
Discuss some of the important aspects of electronic and spin transport in conducting or semiconducting organic materials
What is ferrotoroidicity?
What is the figure on the abstract book?
What techniques and process steps are used to fabricate micro-SQUIDs? What are the challenge to have reliable devices?
What is more fundamental: B or H? [ Slides]
What is the difference between magnetostriction and magneto-elastic effects? [ Slides]
The basics of diamagnetism? How does it work in Cu? Why is the susceptibility of carbon graphite so large? What about fullerenes?
How does a 4-bit flash memory work? [ Slides]
Explain again the importance of (BH)max for permanent magnets.
What is the exact definition o the spontaneous and saturation magnetization?

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