Prototype of a Zero-Field-Cooled YBCO Bearing With Continuous Ring Permanent Magnets

The levitation between high temperature superconductors (HTSs) and permanent magnets (PMs) has been applied to the flywheel energy storage systems and magnetic bearing systems for the last nearly twenty years. The interaction forces acting on the levitating body are calculated by the modified frozen-image method. The magnetic dipoles are equivalent to Amperian current loops. The current intensity in loops changes linearly when the PM moves. Under the zero field cooling condition, the expression of vertical force is obtained when the PM traverses vertically, and when the PM traverses horizontally, the expressions of vertical and horizontal forces are obtained. Those expressions of vertical and horizontal forces are gained by calculating the forces between current loops and using superposition theorem of vector. The calculations agree well with the previous experimental data, which means that the deductions of the expressions are reliable.

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EM of rapidly solidified permanent magnets

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100121399 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 198-199

Author(s):

Raja K. Mishra

Keyword(s):

Melt Spinning ◽

Permanent Magnets ◽

Dark Field Image ◽

Dark Field ◽

Maximum Energy ◽

Quench Rate ◽

Maximum Energy Product ◽

Energy Product ◽

Annular Dark Field ◽

Rapidly Solidified

The discovery of a new class of permanent magnets based on Nd2Fe14B phase in the last decade has led to intense research and development efforts aimed at commercial exploitation of the new alloy. The material can be prepared either by rapid solidification or by powder metallurgy techniques and the resulting microstructures are very different. This paper details the microstructure of Nd-Fe-B magnets produced by melt-spinning.In melt spinning, quench rate can be varied easily by changing the rate of rotation of the quench wheel. There is an optimum quench rate when the material shows maximum magnetic hardening. For faster or slower quench rates, both coercivity and maximum energy product of the material fall off. These results can be directly related to the changes in the microstructure of the melt-spun ribbon as a function of quench rate. Figure 1 shows the microstructure of (a) an overquenched and (b) an optimally quenched ribbon. In Fig. 1(a), the material is nearly amorphous, with small nuclei of Nd2Fe14B grains visible and in Fig. 1(b) the microstructure consists of equiaxed Nd2Fe14B grains surrounded by a thin noncrystalline Nd-rich phase. Fig. 1(c) shows an annular dark field image of the intergranular phase. Nd enrichment in this phase is shown in the EDX spectra in Fig. 2.

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Effect of thermal annealing on grain boundary chemistry of polycrystalline TiBa2Ca2Cu3Oy films

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100172577 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 968-969

Author(s):

Z. L. Wang ◽

C. L. Briant ◽

J. DeLuca ◽

A. Goyal ◽

D. M. Kroeger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Grain Boundary ◽

Weak Link ◽

Zero Field ◽

Stabilized Zirconia ◽

Local Texture ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Axis Alignment ◽

Boundary Chemistry ◽

Small Misorientation ◽

Misorientation Angles

Recent studies have shown that spray-pyrolyzed films of the Tl-1223 compound (TlxBa2Ca2Cu3Oy, with 0.7 < × < 0.95) on polycrystalline yttrium stabilized zirconia substrates can be prepared which have critical current density Jc near 105 A/cm2 at 77 K, in zero field. The films are polycrystalline, have excellent c-axis alignment, and show little evidence of weak-link behavior. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies have shown that most grain boundaries have small misorientation angles. It has been found that the films have a nigh degree of local texture indicative of colonies of similarly oriented grains. It is believed that inter-colony conduction is enhanced by a percolative network of small angle boundaries at colony interfaces. It has also been found that Jc is increased by a factor of 4 - 5 after the films were annealed at 600 °C in oxygen. This study is thus carried out to determine the effect on grain boundary chemistry of the heat treatment.

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Microstructure and microanalysis of sintered Fe-Nd-B permanent magnets

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100178082 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 990-991

Author(s):

Mahesh Chandramouli

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscope ◽

Liquid Phase ◽

Permanent Magnets ◽

Phase Distribution ◽

Energy Dispersive Spectrometer ◽

Nucleation And Growth ◽

Liquid Phase Sintering ◽

Domain Wall Energy ◽

Oxide Phases ◽

Scanning Electron

Magnetization reversal in sintered Fe-Nd-B, a complex, multiphase material, occurs by nucleation and growth of reverse domains making the isolation of the ferromagnetic Fe14Nd2B grains by other nonmagnetic phases crucial. The magnets used in this study were slightly rich in Nd (in comparison to Fe14Nd2B) to promote the formation of Nd-oxides at multigrain junctions and incorporated Dy80Al20 as a liquid phase sintering addition. Dy has been shown to increase the domain wall energy thus making nucleation more difficult while Al is thought to improve the wettability of the Nd-oxide phases.Bulk polished samples were examined in a JEOL 35CF scanning electron microscope (SEM) operated at 30keV equipped with a Be window energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) detector in order to determine the phase distribution.

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Characterisation of planar crystal defects in Y2Fe17Cx (0.6 ≤ x ≤ 1.6) magnetic material by High Resolution Electron Microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100177003 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 774-775

Author(s):

W. Coene ◽

F. Hakkens ◽

T.H. Jacobs ◽

K.H.J. Buschow

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

High Resolution ◽

Permanent Magnets ◽

Annealing Treatment ◽

High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽

Crystal Defects ◽

Ordered Structure ◽

X Ray ◽

Planar Crystal ◽

Resolution Electron

Intermetallic compounds of the type RE2Fe17Cx (RE= rare earth element) are promising candidates for permanent magnets. In case of Y2Fe17Cx, the Curie temperature increases from 325 K for x =0 to 550 K for x = 1.6 . X ray and electron diffraction reveal a carbon - induced structural transformation in Y2Fe17Cx from the hexagonal Th2Ni17 - type (x < 0.6 ) to the rhombohedral Th2Zn17 - type ( x ≥ 0.6). Planar crystal defects introduce local sheets of different magnetic anisotropy as compared with the ordered structure, and therefore may have an important impact on the coercivivity mechanism .High resolution electron microscopy ( HREM ) on a Philips CM30 / Super Twin has been used to characterize planar crystal defects in rhombohedral Y2Fe17Cx ( x ≥ 0.6 ). The basal plane stacking sequences are imaged in the [100] - orientation, showing an ABC or ACB sequence of Y - atoms and Fe2 - dumbbells, for both coaxial twin variants, respectively . Compounds resulting from a 3 - week annealing treatment at high temperature ( Ta = 1000 - 1100°C ) contain a high density of planar defects.

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Correlating the axial Zero Field Splitting with the slow magnetic relaxation in GdIII SIMs

Chemical Communications ◽

10.1039/d0cc07474h ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Júlia Mayans ◽

Albert Escuer

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Relaxation ◽

Zero Field ◽

Zero Field Splitting ◽

Field Splitting ◽

Slow Magnetic Relaxation

A possible relation between the value of the axial Zero Field Splitting and the occurrence of field-induced slow magnetic relaxation has been established for a new gadolinium(iii) compound.

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