OOMMF Tutorial Series

This page provides background references and resources for the Micromagnetics and OOMMF online tutorial series that ran from 21-May through 9-June-2020.

Background reading

The following papers provide nice introductions to micromagnetics theory and practice:

Micromagnetism by Lukas Exl, Dieter Suess and Thomas Schrefl.
General Micromagnetic Theory and Applications, Helmut Kronmüller in Materials Science and Technology, 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. DOI: 10.1002/9783527603978.mst0460
Numerical micromagnetics: finite difference methods, J. Miltat and M.J. Donahue, in Handbook of magnetism and advanced magnetic materials, edited by H. Kronmüller and S. Parkin (Wiley-Interscience, Chichester), Vol. 2, pp. 742-764 (Sep 2007). DOI: 10.1002/9780470022184.hmm202 (Manuscript)

OOMMF Installation

The OOMMF User's Guide includes detailed instructions on installing OOMMF, or you can look at the OOMMF Installation Overview. An easy option for beginners is to bypass installing OOMMF altogether and run OOMMF through a web-interface with a free account at nanoHUB. There is a nanoHUB OOMMF First Time User's Guide to help getting started.

Tutorial Material

Session 1, 21-May-2020: Slides and Video; Homework: (1) Gain access to OOMMF either through nanoHUB or by installing it on your own machine.
(2) Find the Quick Start section of the OOMMF User's Guide (the OUG) and work through steps 1, 2, 3b, and 4.
(3) Explore some of the sample simulations (under examples/oxs/ on nanoHUB, or oommf/app/oxs/examples/ for local installs).
Session 2, 26-May-2020: Slides and Video; Homework, Solution
Session 3, 2-June-2020: Slides and Video; Download sample files from the session; Homework
Session 4, 9-June-2020: Slides and Video; Download sample files for the session

The videos are also available on YouTube.

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