Handbook of Magnetic Measurements

"1. Preface This book is a continuation of my previous book titled Principles of Electrical Measurement. But this time the challenge was much more difficult. Electrical measurements are quite well recognized - there are a lot of good literature on the subject. In the case of magnetic measurements the availability of up to date books is limited and in some parts the author had to compile the state-of-the art knowledge from dispersed specialized papers. Of course there are several excellent books and review papers concerning magnetic measurements as such. For many years we had our "magnetic" bibles, as for example Ferromagnetism by Bozorth (first published in 1951), Introduction to Magnetic Materials by Cullity (1972 ) or Experimental Methods in Magnetism by Zijlstra (1967). But today these books are reprinted mainly as historical monuments (but also due the lack of more up to date alternatives). Two modern, excellent books on the subject can be recommended as additional readings. These are Measurement andCharacterization of Magnetic Materials by Fiorillo and Magnetic Sensors edited by Ripka. But both these books present only relatively narrow part of the wide spectrum of problems related to magnetic measurements. In my University the lecture Magnetic Measurements is not obligatory. And indeed it is very difficult to collect sufficient number of students ready to voluntarily study this subject in more details"--

S. Tumanski is a professor of electrical measurements at Warsaw University of Technology. He is the author of Principles of Electrical Measurements (CRC Press, 2006) and Thin Film Magnetoresistive Sensors (CRC Press, 2001). Active for many years in industrial and magnetic measurements, Dr. Tumanski developed the scanning system of magnetic field known as magnetovision, which can be used for the nondestructive testing of electrical steel.