Magnetic Properties of Rapidly Quenched Ribbons of Soft Magnetic Iron-Based Alloys after Annealing in Air and in Vacuum

The physical reasons of influence of heat treatment in vacuum and air on magnetic properties of ribbon’s of amorphous soft magnetic iron-based alloys were investigated. It is shown that the heat treatment in the air contributes to retrieve the status of a material with lower specific magnetic losses. The reason for this is the formation during annealing of increased concentration along the axis of the ribbon of embedded in the surface atoms of hydrogen and oxygen. In this direction induced pseudo-uniaxial tensile stress, contributing to the reduction of the period of the domain structure and the speed of domain walls motion in the process of magnetization reversal.