Dissertation title = "The Manipulation of Magnetostatic Waves"
basically magnetically excited spins (part of the electron, no "classical" analog, very quantum, but we usually treat it classically anyway cause there are so many of them). When they "spin" out of phase with each other, you have a "spin wave," or maybe a "Magnetostatic wave," or even a "Magnetostatic spin wave." They can be manipulated to do different things. Applications include, radar, communications, signal processing, magnetic storage (hard drives).
Got my BS in general Physics from University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 2000. This is not the UMass you've heard of (unless you listen to the Pixies), nor the ivy league school.
MS, 2003 at Colorado State University in High Energy Physics
Presently in the Magnetism & Magnetics Materials Laboratory, also at CSU, physics dept.
BS = bull sh*t
MS = more sh*t
PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper. I get a shovel.
Link to my groupunder the "group" heading, I'm Kevintable of contents of dissertation, V2:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Subject and Motivation
1.2 Investigation Overview
2 GENERAL THEORY OF MAGNETOSTATIC WAVE EXCITATIONS IN ONE- AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC THIN FILMS
2.1 Spin Precession, Damped Precession, Ferromagnetic Resonance, and Magnetostatic Waves
2.2 Magnetostatic Waves in One-Dimensional Magnetic Thin Films
2.3 Magnetostatic Waves in Two-Dimensional Magnetic Thin Films
2.4 Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films
2.5 Excitation of Magnetostatic Waves in Magnetic Thin Films
3 MAGNETOSTATIC WAVE PULSE CARRIER WAVE NUMBER MANIPULATION
3.1 Theory of Magnetostatic Wave Propagation in Non-uniform Magnetic Fields
3.2 Experimental Setup
3.3 Experimental Results and Analysis
3.4 Conclusions
4 MAGNETOSTATIC WAVE PULSE CLONING AND TRAPPING
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Three Wave Parametric Interaction
4.3 The Cloning and Trapping Process through the Three Wave Interaction
4.4 Experimental Setup
4.5 Experimental Results and Analysis
4.6 Conclusions
5 MAGNETOSTATIC WAVE DIFFRACTION AND SELF FOCUSING IN A TWO DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC THIN FILM
5.1 Theory and Computer Aided Calculations
5.2 Experimental Setup
5.3 Anisotropic Magnetostatic Wave Diffraction
5.4 Magnetostatic Wave Self Focusing
5.5 Conclusions
6 SUMMARY
6.1 Conclusion
6.2 Future Work
REFERENCES
plus maybe some appendices, like computer code, and microwave connector care
If I was smarter, I would have stopped with the MS. If I ever have children, I will not encourage them to go to grad school. Worst decision I ever made, except for 3 things (in order of occurence:
1) Colorado kicks butt.
2) Bought a savage
3) met Vroomette
and I made some good friends
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