Hysteresis Loops and Coercivity Mechanisms in Sintered and Nanocrystalline Permanent Magnets

1999 ◽  
Vol 577 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Kronmüller ◽  
D. Goll ◽  
I. Kleinschroth ◽  
A. Zern

ABSTRACTThe hysteresis loops of nanocrystalline (nc) permanent magnets (pms) produced by the melt-spin technique have been investigated for compositions based on the intermetallic compounds R2Fe14B (R = Nd, Pr) and the carbides Sm2Fe17−xGaxCy. The following three types of pms have been studied: 1) High-coercivity pins with exchange decoupled grains. 2) High-remanence exchange-spring pms. 3) High-coercive-high-remanence composite pins with exchange coupled soft and hard magnetic grains. The temperature dependence of the coercive field μ0Hc for all three types ofpms obeys a relation for a modified nucleation field, Hc = (2K1/Js)α - Neff Ms (K1 = first anisotropy constant, Ms = spontaneous magnetization). For an analysis of the characteristic differences between the microstructural parameters a and Neff as obtained for the three types of pms, computational micromagnetism on the basis of the Finite Element Technique is applied. This powerful method allows a quantitative analysis of the role of grain size, grain boundaries (gbs), texture of easy directions and of soft magnetic phases in composite materials. In order to obtain satisfactory results, a self-adapting algorithm has been developed where the mesh size is adapted to the gradients of the direction cosines of the spontaneous magnetization. It turns out that excellent magnetic properties of composite pms can only be obtained if the gbs are as ideal as possible. Remanence and coercive field are found to decrease linearly with a corresponding reduction of both, the crystal anisotropy and the exchange constant within the gbs. In composite pins the diameters of the soft magnetic grains should be smaller than twice the domain wall width, of the hard magnetic phase in order to obtain a remarkable remanence enhancement. From these model calculations general rules for the development of optimized nc pms with large remanences and large coercivities are derived.

2001 ◽  
Vol 674 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Madurga ◽  
J. Vergara ◽  
C. Favieres

ABSTRACTNon-crystalline Co thin films have been prepared by pulsed laser ablation deposition. From the M-H hysteresis loops measurements, a soft magnetic behavior is observed. Néel type magnetic domain walls are observed in the as-deposited films. The spontaneous magnetization, Ms(T = 300 K), is ≍ 860 emu/cm3. After annealing at 500 oC, Ms(T = 300 K) is ≍ 1460 emu/cm3. The extrapolated to zero K resistance decreases almost two orders of magnitude from the as deposited samples to the crystallized heated at 500 °C ones. A trilayer Co/Cu/Co has shown a real part magnetic susceptibility of 120 at 100 MHz. In the 100 MHz to 1 GHz frequency range, a perpendicular bias magnetic field increased this value up to 270, remaining almost constant for all range.


1999 ◽  
Vol 577 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Schrefl ◽  
J. Fidler

ABSTRACTMicromagnetic finite element calculations provide the theoretical limits for the remanence, the coercive field, and the coercive squareness of nanocomposite Nd2Fe14B/α-Fe,Fe3B,Fe23B6magnets. The influence of the intrinsic magnetic properties and the microstructure were investigated using an energy minimization technique. The coercive field reaches a maximum as a function of the average grain size at about 15 nm - 20 nm. The replacement of α-Fe with Fe3B improves the coercive field but deteriorates the loop shape. The reduction of the magnetization and the exchange constant in the soft magnetic Fe3B phase by 20% improves the coercive field without a significant loss in the remanence. An increase of the hard phase anisotropy by 8% enhances the coercive field by more the 100 kA/m in two-phase α-Fe/Nd2Fe14B and by 60 kA/m in two-phase Fe3B/Nd2Fe14B magnets. Dynamic simulations for magnetostatically interacting particles of a bonded magnet show a slight influence of the particle arrangement on magnetization reversal. The interaction field in the range of 100 kA/m to 200 kA/m rapidly decreases the distance from the particle.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 5426
Author(s):  
Andrey G. Dormidontov ◽  
Natalia B. Kolchugina ◽  
Nikolay A. Dormidontov ◽  
Yury V. Milov ◽  
Alexander S. Andreenko

Experimental series of alloys for (Sm,Zr)(Co,Cu,Fe)Z permanent magnets are presented in the concentration ranges that provide wide variations of (4f)/(4d)/(3d) ratios of comprising elements. Optical metallographic analysis, observation of the surface domain structure upon magnetization reversal (Kerr effect), electron microprobe analysis, and measuring the major hysteresis loops of samples at different stages of heat treatment are used to study processes related to the development of the highly coercive state of these samples. It was found that the volume fractions of two main structural components A and B, which comprise 90% of the total sample volume, rigorously control the coercivity at all stages of thermal aging. At the same time, structural components A and B themselves in samples being in the high-coercivity state differ qualitatively and quantitatively in the chemical composition, domain structure and its development in external magnetic fields and, therefore, are characterized by different morphologies of the phases comprising the structural components. Two stages of phase transformations in the sample structure are observed. During isothermal annealing, the cellular structure develops within the B component, whereas, during stepwise (slow) cooling or quenching from the isothermal aging temperature to 400 °C, a phase structure evolves within both the cell boundaries in B and the structural component A. The degree of completion of the phase transformations within micro- and nano-volumes of the components determines the ultimate hysteretic characteristics of the material.


Author(s):  
D.V. Korolev ◽  
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Yu.V. Stolyankov ◽  
V.P. Piskorsky ◽  
R.A. Valeev ◽  
...  

The article provides the analysis of PrDyFeCoB magnetic microstripes prepared by extracting material from a melt on a rotating cooling disk. The phases 2-14-1, 1-4-1 and 1-2, α-FeСо were verified in the samples. The division of a hysteresis loop into two strands shows that the coercive field of the α-FeСо phase (500–700 Oe) determines the width of the hysteresis loop near the zero field, while the coercive field of the 2-14-1 phase (10 kOe) corresponds to lateral hysteresis loops. The saturation magnetization increases by 25% with an increase in the disk rotation speed by 3 times together with correspondent acceleration of the cooling rate. This is due to the increase in the proportion of the soft magnetic phase α-FeCo and the increase in the proportion of the amorphous phase with a decrease in the proportion of the main magnetic phase 2-14-1. Strip domains and their dynamics during magnetization were detected using Kerr magneto-optical microscopy.


2013 ◽  
Vol 646 ◽  
pp. 59-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arcady Zhukov ◽  
Margarita Churyukanova ◽  
Lorena Gonzalez-Legarreta ◽  
Ahmed Talaat ◽  
Valentina Zhukova ◽  
...  

We studied the effect ofthe magnetoelastic ansitropy on properties of nanostructured glass-coated microwires with soft magnetic behaviour (Finemet-type microwires of Fe70.8Cu1Nb3.1Si14.5B10.6, Fe71.8Cu1Nb3.1Si15B9.1 and Fe73.8Cu1Nb3.1Si13B9.1 compositions) and with granular structure (Cu based Co-Cu microwires). The magnetoelastic energy originated from the difference in thermal expansion coefficients of the glass and metallic alloy during the microwires fabrication, affected the hysteresis loops, coercivity and heat capacity of Finemet-type microwires. Hysteresis loops of all as-prepared microwires showed rectangular shape, typical for Fe-rich microwires. As expected, coercivity, HC, of as-prepared microwires increases with decreasing of the ratio ρ defined as the ratio between the metallic nucleus diameter, d to total microwire diameter, D. On the other hand we observed change of heat capacity in microwires with different ratio ρ. In the case of Co-Cu microwires ρ- ratio affected the structure and the giant magneto-resistance of obtained microwires.


2006 ◽  
Vol 05 (04n05) ◽  
pp. 627-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. SUN ◽  
G. P. ZHAO ◽  
J. LIANG ◽  
G. ZHOU ◽  
H. S. LIM ◽  
...  

A simplified micromagnetic model has been proposed to calculate the hysteresis loops of nanostructured permanent magnets for various configurations, including thin films, exchange-coupled double-layer systems and bulk materials. The reversal part of the hysteresis is based on the Stoner–Wohlfarth coherent rotational model and the coercivity mechanism is due mainly to the motion of the transition region (a domain wall like magnetic moment distribution in the grain boundary). The elements of nucleation and pinning models are also incorporated.


2004 ◽  
Vol 03 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
KOSTYA S. NOVOSELOV ◽  
SERGEY V. DUBONOS ◽  
SERGEY V. MOROZOV ◽  
DIRK VAN DEN BERGEN ◽  
JAN KEES MAAN ◽  
...  

Nanometer-scale movements of domain walls in uniaxial garnet films have been studied by means of micromagnetization measurements using miniature gold and semiconductor Hall probes. At helium temperatures the domain walls are found to move by discrete jumps, which we attribute to pinning on isolated defects, and we were able to measure local hysteresis loops associated with pinning on individual pinning centers. The temperature dependence of the coercive field of a single pinning center allowed us to evaluate the characteristic energy and characteristic volume of the pinning center.


Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1006
Author(s):  
Valentina Zhukova ◽  
Paula Corte-Leon ◽  
Lorena González-Legarreta ◽  
Ahmed Talaat ◽  
Juan Maria Blanco ◽  
...  

The influence of post-processing conditions on the magnetic properties of amorphous and nanocrystalline microwires has been thoroughly analyzed, paying attention to the influence of magnetoelastic, induced and magnetocrystalline anisotropies on the hysteresis loops of Fe-, Ni-, and Co-rich microwires. We showed that magnetic properties of glass-coated microwires can be tuned by the selection of appropriate chemical composition and geometry in as-prepared state or further considerably modified by appropriate post-processing, which consists of either annealing or glass-coated removal. Furthermore, stress-annealing or Joule heating can further effectively modify the magnetic properties of amorphous magnetic microwires owing to induced magnetic anisotropy. Devitrification of microwires can be useful for either magnetic softening or magnetic hardening of the microwires. Depending on the chemical composition of the metallic nucleus and on structural features (grain size, precipitating phases), nanocrystalline microwires can exhibit either soft magnetic properties or semi-hard magnetic properties. We demonstrated that the microwires with coercivities from 1 A/m to 40 kA/m can be prepared.


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