Electronic Publication of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
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Prof. Edward Della Torre IEEE Magnetics Society President Electrical and Computer Engineering Department George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 TEL (202)994-0410 Fax:(202)994-0227 dellator@SEAS.GWU.EDU |
Ron B. Goldfarb Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. Magn. National lnst. of Standards and Tech. 325 Broadway Boulder, Colorado 80303 r.goldfarb@ieee.org |
The IEEE is moving rapidly into electronic publishing. It has established Web-based programs that are accessible by institutions ("IEL") and individual members ("OPERA"). They have full search features and can reproduce entire articles on paper or on screen. The Magnetics Society will participate in these databases starting next year.
Since 1997, the Society has processed regular Transactions papers electronically. However, conference-related papers, published as "camera-ready," are included in IEEE's electronic products only as bit-mapped images. Soon, IEEE will no longer accept camera-ready papers, and conferences will be required to submit "electronic" (i.e., "magnetic") versions of their papers. These conference-related papers will have the "look and feel" of regular Transactions papers and will be fully searchable and linkable in IEEE's electronic products.
IEEE's electronic database currently goes back to 1988. In future years, the Magnetics Society hopes to scan back issues of the Transactions to convert them to electronic versions. Other Societies in the IEEE have done that, going back to the beginning of their respective Transactions.
Important Author Information for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
If you are planning to submit a paper for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, please read the instructions for authors on the back, inside cover of a recent issue of the journal.
In particular, please note that IEEE sets galley proofs directly from PC or Macintosh disks provided by the authors. You must include a disk along with two paper copies of your final, accepted manuscript. Make certain the magnetic version of your manuscript is identical to the paper copies. The disk should be labeled with your name, the file name of your manuscript, format (PC or Macintosh), and the software and version number used to create the file. The preferred software is LATEX or Microsoft Word. Figures should be in TIFF or EPS as separate files on disk(s). Do not put boxes around figures. Do not write captions as part of the graphic images. Important instructions for manuscript and figure preparation are available at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/authors.html Please download file TRANSMAG.DOC.
Intermag '99 Held May 18-21, 1999 in Kyonju, Korea
Intermag '99 was held at the Hyundai Hotel near Kyongju, Korea. General Chairman Dr. Il Koo Kang and the organizing committee worked hard to prepare a memorable conference that was a technical and artistic success. More than 1000 attendess learned about recent advances in the technology of magnetism from oral and poster papers. The success of the conference must have been especially satisfying to Dr. Kang and the members of the Korean Magnetics Society, who feared a profound negative impact from the recent financial crisis in Korea.A plenary session talk, "Outlook of Magnetic Storage Industry, Technology/Application Trend of Overall Storage Industry, Emphasizing Korean HDD Industry" was given by Dr. Moon S. Song of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. In the talk he told of possible applications that would increase the demand for hard drives, encouraging words in this time of oversupply and low prices. Dr. Song also reported of Samsung's substantial involvement in the world hard drive business.
The Hyundai and other conference hotels are on the shores of Pomun lake which features jogging and bicycle trails along its banks and picturesque wooded hills in its vicinity. The staff at the conference were friendly and helpful.
The conference banquest on May 19 was simply fantastic. Profs. Kang, Prof. Mark Kryder from Carnegie Mellon University and the Chairman of the Japanese Magnetics Society addressed the more than 500 banquest attendees. The dinner menu was multi-course Western of an elegance and splendor that an ordinary person experiences only a few times in a lifetime. Following the dinner, a beautiful program of dancing and music was presented by a native Korean dance group.
Intermag '99 will be fondly remembered by all
of us who attended. Pictures from Intermag '99
are below.
These were
supplied by Prof. Soon-Ju Kwon,
publicity chair for Intermag '99, and Richard Dee.
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One of several placards welcoming attendess. |
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Prof. Kang at banquet welcomes attendees. |
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Prof. Kryder at banquet greets attendees. |
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A toast to the conference attendees. |
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Korean dance group at banquet. |  |
Korean dance group at banquet. |
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Korean dance group at banquet. |  |
Korean dance group at banquet. |
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Ice sculpture at banquet. |  |
Hyundai Hotel, where Intermag 99 was held. |
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Hotel on whose shores the Hyundai and other hotels are located. |  |
Water geyser in the middle of the lake |
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Scene from the pleasant city of Kyongju, a few km from the Hyundai Hotel. |  |
Dr. Moon S. Song delivered the plenary address |
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Scene from a poster session. |  |
A model of an ancient Korean military ship was amongst the posters. |
David Thompson Honored with Achievement Award
The 1998 Magnetics Society Achievement Award was awarded to Dr. David Thompson of IBM Almaden Research Center during the Awards Session at Intermag '99 in Kyongju, Korea.
David A. Thompson received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1962, 1963, and 1966, respectively.
In 1965, he became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at C.I.T., now Carnegie-Mellon University. His research activities there were primarily in the fields of magnetic thin films and microwaves. From 1968 to 1987 he was at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. There his work was concerned with magnetic memory, magnetic recording, and magnetic transducers. He became an IBM Fellow in 1980, was named Director of the Compact Storage Laboratory in December 1985. He moved to Almaden Research Center in 1987 to assume responsibilities as Director of Magnetic Recording Institute as well as Director of Compact Storage Laboratory. These two programs merged in 1991, to form the Advanced Magnetic Recording Laboratory. He is presently head of AMRL.
Dr. Thompson is a member of the (US) National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Magnetics Society. He has served terms as President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer of the IEEE Magnetics Society. He served four three-year terms on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society, was often a member of the Program Committee of the Intermag Conference, was Program Co-Chairman of the Intermag '86 Conference and of the Intermag '78 Conference in Florence, Italy, and has served as Reviews Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. He was Conference Chairman of the first TMRC (The Magnetic Recording Conference) in 1990.
Dr. Thompson has been member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Magnetics Technology Centre (National University of Singapore) since its inception. In April 1992, he received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, "for pioneering work in miniature magnetic devices for data storage... ". In 1993 he received the National Inventor of the Year Award from the New York İPatent Lawyers¨ Association. He is currently a Master Inventor of the the IBM Corporation. In 1996, he was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
New Magnetics Society Fellows Honored at Intermag '99
Members of the Magnetics Society recently elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow after evaluation by the IEEE Magnetics Society were listed in the February 99 Newsletter. Award certificates were presented by Prof. Fritz Friedlaender at the Plenary Session of Intermag '99. Photographs of reciepients who received their certificates at Intermag 99 are by Richard Dee.
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Tu Chen, Komag, Inc. San Jose, CA, USA For contributions to the development of thin film materials, tools and processes used for magnetic and optical information storage disks. |
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Mason L. Williams, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA. For contributions to the understanding of the digital magnetic recording process and the continued progress of areal density of disk drives. |
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Arthur Yelon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. For contributions to the science and technology of ferromagnetic materials and devices, and to education in the applied sciences. |
About the Newsletter
The objective of the IEEE Magnetics Society Newsletter is to publicize activities, conferences, workshops and other information of interest to the Society membership and technical people in the general area of applied magnetics. Copy is solicited from the Magnetics Society membership, organizers of conferences, officers of the Society and local chapters and other individuals with relevant material. The Magnetics Society Newsletter is published approximately four times a year at the Magnetics IEEE Magnetics Society Web Page.
Please send articles, letters and other contributions to one of the co-editors:
Storage Technology Corporation
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Prof. John Nyenhuis
Purdue University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285
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E-Mail:
j.a.nyenhuis@ieee.org
MMM '99 to be held Nov. 15-18, 1999 in San Jose, California
The Forty-Fourth Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, (MMM'99) will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, USA, November 15-18, 1999. The Conference annually brings together scientists and engineers interested in recent developments in all branches of fundamental and applied magnetism. Emphasis is placed on experimental and theoretical research in magnetism, the properties and synthesis of new magnetic materials, and advances in magnetic technology. The program will consist of invited and contributed papers. (The abstract deadline was May 15.) Abstract booklets will be made available at the conference, and proceedings will be published in the Journal of Applied Physics. Individuals who are not on the Conference mailing list may obtain Conference information and details concerning the preparation of abstracts by contacting the Conference Coordinator:
The latest information on the conference can be obtained on the World
Wide Web via the conference web site:
http://www.magnetism.org
In addition to the contributed papers,
there will be invited papers, sessions wherein competing
technologies can be assessed, tutorial
sessions, and workshops for less formal discussions of timely
and/or controversial topics. In all
of the above, special emphasis will be placed on application-
oriented topics.
Two page digests must be submitted electronically
to the conference web site:
http://www.intermagconference.com
All information regarding the format of the digests and submission
categories can be found at this web site.
The deadline for submission is
October 10, 1999.
Complete details regarding
hotel reservations, conference registration fees and
the necessary forms will be available both in
the Advance Program and on the conference web site.
Information may also be found at
the IEEE Magnetics Society web site:
http://www.ieee.org/society/mag
There will be a technical exhibit at Interamag 2000.
Exhibitor information is available at the
conference website.
For additional information please contact:
Tel: +1-202-973-8676 Fax: +1-202-973-8722
The Magnetics Society of the IEEE honors one of its outstanding members
each year for his or her lifelong professional achievement. This is the
highest award of the Magnetics Society and is given for scientific,
technical and service contributions to the society. The award is
presented at Intermag each year and consists of a diploma with citation
and a cash prize.
The past award winners were Fred Luborsky 1981, Herb Storm 1982, Harold
Lord 1984, Joe Suozzi 1985, Fritz Friedlaender 1986, Andrew Bobeck 1987,
Floyd Humphrey 1988, Paul Biringer 1989, Daniel Gordon 1990, Emerson
Pugh 1991, Yoshifumi Sakurai 1992, William Doyle 1993, Richard Barker
1994, Mark Kryder 1995, Koosuke Harada 1996, Gordon Slemon 1997,
Stanley Charap 1998, and David Thompson 1999.
Nominations are requested. For your convenience, please use the
Achievement Award nomination form obtainable from Fritz Friedlaender,
Floyd Humphrey or the IEEE. Any member of the Magnetics Society may
nominate a candidate at any time. To be considered for the 2000 award,
nominations should be received before November 1, 1999. Please send
nominations to:
Floyd B. Humphrey
Members of IEEE's Technical Societies rightly have been anxious to know
more about the IEEE-SA. We are well into the second year and are better
positioned to assess its accomplishments, unresolved issues, and future
challenges.
When the SA was launched, our promises to you included:
We've given IEEE-SA members a voice in the governance.
The IEEE-SA Board of Governors (IEEE-SA BOG) developed an
election process for its members-at-large and for the IEEE-SA
President. This was approved by the IEEE Board of Directors in November
1998. Now members of the IEEE-SA can elect the members-at-large of the
IEEE-SA BOG, and members of the IEEE-SA who are also IEEE members may
elect the IEEE-SA President. The position of President-Elect was also
created to allow for continuity of leadership.
The first elections will be held this year as part of the IEEE annual
election process. IEEE-SA members will see their ballots in the fall.
Issues and challenges.
IEEE standards developers have new voting options.
Issues and challenges.
2) Some IEEE standards developers have shown resistance to joining the
SA (we have approximately 3500 individual members). The requirement for
membership is directed toward the consensus ballot privilege. If you
want to ballot, you must join the SA. However, if you want to work on
the writing of the standard, you have no SA membership requirements.
Our balloting statistics show an increase in activity, which indicates
that overall, SA membership has not been a deterrent for that level of
participation.
A new organization has been formed that allows IEEE to provide a
full range of standards services to its members and their industries.
Over the last several years, we have been keenly aware of the
proliferation of industry groups that have formed for the purpose of
developing industry standards and running related programs. These
groups formed because they found that the IEEE was not able to respond
adequately and quickly enough to the market demands of their
technologies. We had to ask ourselves, Why shouldn't this work be done
in the IEEE? These are IEEE technologies! And as a result the IEEE-SA
developed the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization
(IEEE-ISTO), which was approved by the IEEE Board of Directors in
November 1998 and launched on 1 January 1999.
The new organization's goals complement the activities of the IEEE-SA.
It provides
a forum in which development processes and related activities can be
tailored to the technology, market, and participants. It also offers
support for industry-specific post-development activities, including
marketing, certification, branding, and conformity assessment. The
Medical Device Communications Industry Group is the first group to
organize within the IEEE-ISTO. Several additional programs are
expected as 1999 progresses.
Together, the IEEE-SA and the IEEE-ISTO enable the IEEE to offer
industry an unprecedented level of choice through a complete menu of
standards activities and services.
Issues and challenges.
2) The IEEE ISTO must provide proof of concept that it is functioning
as a supplier to the Societies and the Standards board, not a
competitor.
Our goals for this year include an aggressive globalization program,
new product and service opportunities, and increased communication and
improved relationships with the IEEE Technical Societies. We will keep
you informed through this newsletter and other media, and we welcome
your thoughts and comments.
Judy Gorman
Intermag '2000 to be held April 9-13, 2000 in Toronto
The 2000 International Magnetics
Conference (INTERMAG 2000) will be held at the
Royal York Hotel in
Toronto, Canada, from Sunday, April 9,
through Thursday, April 13, 2000.
Contributed papers are
solicited in all areas of applied
magnetics, related magnetic phenomena,
and information storage
technologies. Topics of wide interest
include all aspects of magnetic recording,
magnetic memory
technologies, microwave magnetics,
micromagnetics and hysteresis modeling, microscopy and
imaging, micromagnetic
devices and MEMS, magnetic materials
and properties, transformers and
inductors. This list is
intended to be suggestive rather than restrictive.
Courtesy Associates
intermag@courtesyassoc.com
Nominations Sought for
2000 Achievement Award
of the
Magnetics Society
Chairman, Achievement Awards Committee
P.O. Box 722
Meredith, NH 03253-0722
Voice/FAX (603) 279-3395
E-mail
FBH@BU.EDU
IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)-Year One
1) an election
of the governing body,
2) expanded opportunities for standards
development under the Standards Board, and
3) even further
standardization opportunities outside of the Standards Board.
How did
we do?
Some volunteer standards developers don't see the value of
t of a constituency with the above-mentioned electoral
privileges. The goal of an election is to bring forward individuals
with leadership abilities, industry involvement, and strong interest
and experience in the standards activities of the Institute. The more
vested the interest, the better for the standards constituency.
The Standards Board approved entity balloting (e.g., corporate
balloting) as a part of the traditional IEEE standards consensus
process. Remember, the IEEE-SA Bylaws include several new membership
categories, such as company, government, and organization. Now, an IEEE
committee can declare at the outset of its project (PAR) that it will
proceed with a corporate-level ballot, as distinct from an
individual-based ballot. IEEE hosts a broad range of standards
programs, coming from diverse industry sectors. Now we have started to
enable IEEE to embrace that diversity with
options for proceeding rather than a "one size
fits all" policy.
1) There is strong interest in a mixed balloting process,
which could include individuals and company representatives, as an
example. The Standards Board is working on this during 1999.
1) IEEE's ability to change its culture in its standards
activities toward one that focuses on identifiably market-relevant
initiatives.
Managing Director
IEEE Standards
Conference Calendar
Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism (MISM)
For information:
Nicolai Perov or Alexander Granovsky
MISM, Magnetism Division, Department of Physics
M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow 119899, Russia
TEL: +7-095-939-4787
FAX: +7-095-932-8820 +7-095-939-5907
mism@magn.phys.msu.su
granov@magnet.phys.msu.su
perov@magn.phys.msu.su
http://magn.phys.msu.su/~mism
The 1999 NSIC Annual Meeting
Monterey, California
For information:
National Storage Industry Consortium
(619) 621-2550, (619) 621-2551 fax
http://www.nsic.org/
10th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA USA
For information:
TEL +1-619-451-7693
http://www.asme.org/divisions/isps/isps0.html
dconnoly@ucsd.edu
TMRC, The Magnetic Recorcding Conference: Media
For information:
Michael Alex
KOMAG
1704 Automation Parkway
San Jose, CA 95193
TEL: 408-576-2149
FAX: 408-944-9255
michael_alex@komag.com
http://www.iist.scu.edu/iist/TMRC/TMRC99/TMRC_99.html
SMM 14 - Soft Magnetic Materials Conference
Balatonfured, Hungary
For information, email:
smm14@sunserv.kfki.hu
http://www.kfki.hu/~smm14/
International Symposium on
Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical
Engineering
Pavia, Italy
For information:
Prof. A. Savini
University of Pavia, Italy
savini@ipv36.unipv.it
http://etabeta.unipv.it/volta1999/isef99/
The 16th International Conference on Magnet Technology
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl (near Jacksonville, Fl)
For information:
Jo Ann Palmer, Conference Secretary
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310
USA
Telephone: - 1 - 850 - 644 - 1933
Fax: - 1 - 850 - 644 - 9462
mt16@magnet.fsu.edu
http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/mt16/index.html
MSM 99 First Regional Conference on Magnetic and Superconducting Materials
Tehran, Iran
For information, email:
msm-99@sina.sharif.ac.ir
http://194.225.40.9/~msm-99/
44th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
San Jose, California, USA.
For information:
Courtesy Associates
2000 L Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
TEL: 202 973-8668
FAX: 202 331-0111
email
magnetism@courtesyassoc.com
http://www.magnetism.org/
Intermag Conference, Toronto, Canada
For information:
Courtesy Associates
2000 L Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
TEL: 202 973-8668
FAX: 202 331-0111
email
intermag@courtesyassoc.com
Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2000)
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract deadline: December 1, 1999.
For information:
Hsiu C. Han
TEL +1-515-294-5320
hsiu@iastate.edu
http://www.piers.org/piers2k
International Conference on Magnetism, ICM 2000
Recife, Brazil
For information:
icm2000@df.ufpe.br
http://www.icm2000.org.br
The International Conference on Ferrites, Kyoto, Japan
For information:
Prof. Masahiko Naoe
Dept. of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku
Tokyo 152-8552 Japan
TEL: +81-3-5734-2575 FAX: +81-3-5734-2513
naoe@pe.titech.ac.jp
http://spin.pe.titech.ac.jp/icf8/
Joint MORIS/APDSC 2000
Magneto-Optical Recording International Symposium/Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference
Nagoya, Japan
For information, contact:
Prof. Takao Suzuki
Toyota Technological Inst.
Information Storage Materials Lab.
2-12-1 Hisakata, Tempaku-ku
Nagoya, 468-8511
Japan
TEL: +81-52-809-1870 FAX: +81-52-809-1874
tsuzuki@toyota-ti.ac.jp
8th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference
San Antonio, Texas USA
For information:
Courtesy Associates
2000 L Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
TEL: 202 973-8668
FAX: 202 331-0111
email magnetism@courtesyassoc.com