铁基软磁非晶/纳米晶合金研究进展及应用前景

非晶合金通常是将熔融的金属快速冷却、通过抑制结晶而获得的原子呈长程无序排列的金属材料.由于具有这种特殊结构,铁基软磁非晶合金具有各向同性特征、很小的结构关联尺寸和磁各向异性常数,因而具有很小的矫顽力H_c,但可和晶态材料一样具有高的饱和磁感强度B_s.优异的软磁性能促进了铁基软磁非晶合金的应用研究.目前,铁基软磁非晶/纳米晶合金带材已实现大规模工业化生产和应用,成为重要的高性能软磁材料.本文回顾了软磁非晶合金的发现和发展历程,结合成分、结构、工艺对铁基非晶/纳米晶合金软磁性能的影响,介绍了相关基础研究成果和工艺技术进步对铁基软磁非晶/纳米晶合金研发和工业化应用的重要贡献.并根据结构、性能特征将铁基软磁非晶合金研发与应用分为三个阶段,指出了目前铁基软磁非晶合金研发与应用中面临的挑战和发展方向.     

Structure and magnetism of Fe-rich nanostructured Fe–Ni metastable solid solutions

New futures on the physical properties of ferromagnetic FeNi alloys have been found combining in situ neutron diffraction experiments and magnetic measurements in mechanical milled Fe-rich Fe–Ni metastable solid solutions. Apart from the well-known Invar effect, on heating these materials are characterised by the existence of a first-order martensite–austenite transformation that takes place at some system-dependent temperature. On cooling, the transformation occurs at a lower temperature than on heating; for Fe₈₀Ni₂₀ the size of the effect being larger than 100 °C, much more than the values found in conventional FeNi alloys. These results are discussed considering intrinsic features as magnetovolume effects and/or extrinsic effects such as small grain size and the existence of defects.     

Studies of thin FeAlN films prepared by different techniques

The microstructure, morphology, and magnetic properties of FeAlN films deposited by reactive rf magnetron sputtering with subsequent treatment by three techniques, namely, in situ, ex situ (with the sputtering and annealing processes separated), and thermal crystallization of amorphous alloys, have been studied. FeAlN films prepared by the ex situ technique exhibit the best soft magnetic characteristics. Thermal crystallization of amorphous alloys produced films with properties having the highest thermal stability. Films 800-to 1000-nm thick were found to have the best soft magnetic properties. The dependences of the properties of FeAlN films on nitrogen content and annealing temperature were established. The conditions favoring the preparation of thin nanostructured FeAlN films featuring the best soft magnetic characteristics (saturation induction B _S = 1.8 T, coercivity H _C = 1.2 Oe, magnetic susceptibility μ₁ (1 MHz) = 3400) were determined.     

Recent developments in magnetism and magnetic materials

In the last decade we have obtained a deeper understanding of basic magnetism in alloys and a variety of new magnetic materials have been developed. In this review article two kinds of recent topics in these fields will be discussed. The first one is the magnetic properties of rare earth-3d transition intermetallics. After describing the magnetic properties of RMn₂ very briefly, we discuss the magnetic properties of YMn₂ in detail, particularly its magnetovolume effect which is closely related with the magnetic moment of Mn atoms below and above the magnetic transition temperature. Then, as an example of recent developments in soft magnetic materials, Fe-Ni-Cr alloys with very high permeability and low coercive force will be discussed including impurity effects on their magnetic properties.     

Structure and magnetic properties of layers formed by laser fusing of powders on nonmagnetic substrates

Studies of the structure and magnetic properties of layers formed on nonmagnetic substrates by laser powder fusing (LPF) showed that crystalline phases are separated from initial powders of bronze, inconel (IN 625), and PGSR-4with the transformation of nonmagnetic materials to soft ferromagnets. The fused bronze powder layer exhibits soft ferromagnetic properties with two types of magnetic domains with the Curie temperatures of 80 and 300 K and a coercivity to 90 Oe at 300 K; in layers based on In625 and PGSR-4, only one type of magnetic domains with the Curie temperatures of 260–270 K is formed, which provides soft ferromagnetic properties at 4 К and the paramagnetic transition at 300 K.     

强磁场对铝合金中溶质组元分布状态的影响效果

合金中溶质组元的组织形态和分布对于改善合金的组织和性能具有重要意义.本文研究了铝合金在强磁场作用下的凝固行为,考察了Al-Cu，Al-Mg合金中溶质组元的相形态、分布状况随高强度均恒磁场和梯度磁场的强度和方向变化的规律.研究发现，由于Cu元素和Mg元素的物性不同导致其在基体中受到的电磁力不同，在均恒磁场作用下，铝合金中Cu元素和Mg元素在α-Al基体晶粒内和晶界上的分布变化规律相反；在梯度磁场作用下，Cu元素和Mg元素在铝基体中含量和分布状态也有显著的差异.本研究为利用强磁场有效控制不同物性的溶质元素在合金基体中组织状态和分布提供了实验依据. 关键词： 强磁场 铝合金 溶质元素分布 凝固组织 凝固过程     

The structure and magnetic properties of amorphous magnetic thin films

A review of the structural and magnetic properties of amorphous ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic thin films is presented. An attempt is made to report structural information on atomic and microstructural scales, and to stress its relevance to the magnetic properties of these materials. The more obvious microstructural features of deposited films are not present in the other important type of amorphous magnetic material prepared by rapid quenching from the melt, and present opportunities for differences in structure dependent magnetic properties. In the main, three classes of amorphous magnetic films are considered. Ferromagnetic transition metal (TM) films which are metastable only at temperatures well below room temperature are discussed. Their importance lies in the fact that they clearly represent the most fundamental amorphous phase. Ferromagnetic transition metal-metalloid (TM-Me) alloys have potential applications as magnetically soft materials. These alloys are, perhaps, the most studied amorphous magnetic materials both in deposited thin film and rapidly quenched ribbon forms. Finally, amorphous rare earth-transition metal (RE-TM) films are reviewed. They exhibit a wide variety of magnetic properties encompassing both extremely low and very high coercivities and also perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The possible application of these materials in various types of device has encouraged much detailed research into their magnetic properties. This has highlighted the importance of preparation conditions and microstructure in defining their properties.     

Gd二元合金纳米固体的磁热熵特性

考察了Ｇｄ的二元合金系列制备成纳米粉末后具有一些奇异特性：其居里温度降低，比热增大．部分纳米材料的磁热熵效应超过常规晶态材料，这对研制新型增强磁热熵效应的磁致冷工质材料具有重要意义 关键词：     

The influence of ball-milling on structural and magnetic properties of Co-based powders

The melt-spun Co- and Fe-based amorphous alloys have been investigated extensively for applications in magnetic devices, which require magnetically soft materials. Although these alloys exhibit excellent soft magnetic properties, their thin sheet shape, which is a consequence of the low glass forming ability, limits significantly their engineering applications. A powder metallurgy is thus an alternative way of producing bulk and, at the same time, soft magnetic materials, having desired shape. In our case, Co₅₆Fe₁₆Zr₈B₂₀ and Co_70.3Fe_4.7Si₁₀B₁₅ amorphous ribbons have been ball-milled for a short time and subsequently compacted (by hot pressing) into disc-shaped specimens with the aim to achieve samll values of resulting coercivity. This work is focused only on the first preparation step i.e. on structural and magnetic properties of ball-milled powders obtained by ball-milling of Co-based melt-spun ribbons at different conditions. Two different ways of milling were employed in order to obtain a powder form of the material: the ribbons were either continuously ball-milled for up to 12 hours or, after each half an hour of ball-milling, the vials were cooled in liquid nitrogen bath for half an hour. Mössbauer spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry were employed to compare and to present the differences between these two different ways of milling.     

Y对Fe-Si-B 合金非晶形成能力及软磁性能的影响

本文通过铜模吸铸法和单辊甩带法分别制备出一系列楔形试样和非晶条带试样, 系统研究了稀土金属Y对Fe₇₈Si₉B₁₃合金非晶形成能力及其软磁性能的影响. 结果表明, 少量Y取代 Fe-Si-B 非晶合金中的Fe 可大大提高该合金的非晶形成能力并促进过冷液相区的产生. 当Y含量为3 at.%时, 合金具有最大的非晶形成能力, 其临界厚度为313 μm, 相应的非晶过冷液相区宽度达到65 K. 该系列非晶合金具有优良的软磁性能, 其矫顽力(H_c)均低于200 A/m, Y含量为1 at.%时, 饱和磁感应强度(B_s) 达到最大值1.67 T.     

Fabrication of magnetic nanostructures by direct laser interference lithography on supersaturated metal mixtures

We present the formation of magnetic nanostructures through the annealing of PLD-deposited Fe-Cr and Co-Ag thin film mixtures by the interference of pulsed laser beams. Both these materials systems have a large miscibility gap under equilibrium conditions. The structures obtained were studied with atomic force and magnetic force microscopy. A pattern of magnetic dots was successfully fabricated on the Fe-Cr sample, but attempts to produce a similar pattern on the Co-Ag film were unsuccessful. The conclusion is drawn that the observed transformations of the film materials under laser heat treatment took place through a local melting of the film in the maxima of the interference pattern. The magnetic properties of the resulting structure are considered to be defined by the liquid state miscibility of the film components.     

Stability of (Fe-Tm-B) amorphous alloys: relaxation and crystallization phenomena

Fe-Tm-B base (TM=transition metal) amorphous alloys (metallic glasses) are thermodynamically metastable. This limits their use as otherwise favourable materials, e.g. magnetically soft, corrosion resistant and mechanically firm. By analogy of the mechanical strain-stress dependence, at a certain degree of thermal activation the amorphous structure reaches its limiting state where it changes its character and physical properties. Relaxation and early crystallization processes in amorphous alloys, starting already around 100°C, are reviewed involving subsequently stress relief, free volume shrinking, topological and chemical ordering, pre-crystallization phenomena up to partial (primary) crystallization. Two diametrically different examples are demonstrated from among the soft magnetic materials: relaxation and early crystallization processes in the Fe-Co-B metallic glasses and controlled crystallization of amorphous ribbons yielding rather modern nanocrystalline Finemet alloys where late relaxation and pre-crystallization phenomena overlap when forming extremely dispersive and fine-grained nanocrystals-in-amorphous-sauce structure. Mössbauer spectroscopy seems to be unique for magnetic and phase analysis of such complicated systems.     

Optimisation of soft magnetic properties in Fe–Cu–X–Si13B9 (X=Cr,Mo, Zr) amorphous alloys

In the present paper a group of Fe–Cu–X–Si₁₃B₉ (X=Cr, Mo, Zr) amorphous alloys has been examined by applying different experimental techniques—magnetic permeability, magnetic after-effect, coercive force and electrical resistivity measurements. It has been shown that their soft magnetic properties can be optimised by 1-h thermal annealing at the temperature close to the crystallisation temperature. This leads to an increase of permeability and a decrease of coercive force, thermal instability (magnetic after-effect intensity) and electrical resistivity of the material. The optimisation effect is discussed in terms of different processes—(i) a formation of a nanocrystalline phase with the grain size much smaller than the ferromagnetic exchange length, (ii) an annealing out of microvoids formed during the fabrication process and also (iii) a decrease of the effective magnetostriction constant. The temperature of optimisation annealing treatment is always higher than the Curie temperatures of the materials and varies approximately linearly with the atomic radius of the alloying additions.     

A study of nanostructure magnetosolid Nd–Ho–Fe–Co–B materials via atomic force microscopy and magnetic force microscopy

Nanostructure Nd–Ho–Fe–Co–B alloys have been probed via atomic force microscopy and magnetic force microscopy (AFM and MFM, respectively). The ribbon samples with a thickness of ~30 μm are prepared via the rapid solidification on a rotating copper barrel. A part of samples has been subjected to hydration, whereas another one has undergone severe plastic deformation. AFM was mainly used to study the contact and free surface of ribbon samples. This has enabled us to establish the topography, structure, defects of both sides, morphology of magnetic inclusions of the initial quenched samples and the materials subjected to the subsequent external effects. The AFM and MFM data allowed the magnetic hysteresis properties of the bulk samples with the identical composition to be interpreted.     

Microstructure and magnetic properties of atmospheric plasma sprayed Fe–40Al coating obtained from nanostructured powders

Amorphous and nanocrystalline materials have attracted much interest in the field of new materials design because of their excellent mechanical and physical properties as well as their magnetic properties. In this work, Fe–40Al coatings were prepared from nanostructured feedstock with a very low degree of order using atmospheric plasma spraying. Scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and magnetic measurements were used to investigate microstructure, phase structure, and magnetic properties of the coatings. The results showed that Fe–40Al coating presented a ferromagnetic character due to partial structure with a low degree of order and unmelted nanostructured particles retained from the feedstock. Moreover, the heterogeneous magnetic properties were found in the parallel and vertical direction of the coating.     

Microstructure and properties of Co-Sm-O nanogranular films

The effect of annealing on the structure and physical properties of Co-Sm-O alloy films prepared using pulsed plasma deposition is investigated. It is found that Co-Sm-O films in the initial state possess superparamagnetic properties due to the presence of small-sized magnetic nanoparticles surrounded by dielectric layers of samarium oxide in the film structure. Upon annealing, the Co-Sm-O films undergo structural transformations and exhibit a number of magnetic properties (including those inherent in both soft and hard magnetic materials).     

Microstructure and properties of 6FeNiCoSiCrAlTi high-entropy alloy coating prepared by laser cladding

The content of each constituent element in the newly developed high-entropy alloys (HEAs) is always restricted in equimolar or near-equimolar ratio in order to avoid the formation of complex brittle phases during the solidification process. In this study, a 6FeNiCoSiCrAlTi high-entropy alloy coating with simple BCC solid solution phase has been prepared by laser cladding on a low carbon steel substrate. The microstructure, hardness and magnetic properties have been investigated. The experimental results show that the tendency of component segregation in the conventional solidification microstructure of multi-component alloy is effectively relieved. The microstructure of the coating is mainly composed of equiaxed polygonal grains, discontinuous interdendritic segregation and nano-precipitates. EBSD observation confirms that the polygonal grains and interdendritic segregation have similar BCC structure with lots of low angle grain boundaries at the interface. The microhardness of the coating reaches 780 HV_0.5, which is much higher than most of the HEAs prepared by other methods. In addition, the coating shows excellent soft magnetic properties.     

Superlattice CoCrPt/Ru/CoFe structure fabricated by pulsed laser deposition

The synthetic antiferromagnets (SAF) have been used in spin-valve sensor in data storage industry [1]. We report a new hard/Ru/soft sandwich structure (SHBL) fabricated by pulsed lased deposition to replace current single layer structure for information recording application. SHBL consists of two magnetic layers separated by thin nonmagnetic layers, typically with Ru layers of 0.7-1.2 nm, through which antiferromagnetic coupling is induced. Varying the relative thickness of the magnetic layers, the spacer layers, and the type of magnetic materials can alter magnetic properties of CoCrPt/Ru/CoFe superlattice. The coercivity H_c and grain size of magnetic layer is also dependent on the laser fluence. High laser fluence results in both small grain size and high H_c. The observed phenomena are related to high quenching and deposition rates during PLD at high fluence, resulting in more pronounced phase segregation.     

Effect of hydrogen plasma implantation on the micro-structure and magnetic properties of hcp-Co_(80)~(57)Fe_4Ir_(16) thin films

We present detailed investigations of structural and static/dynamic magnetic properties of hydrogenated hcpCo_(80)~(57)Fe_4Ir_(16) soft magnetic thin films. Two different kinds of defects, i.e., destructive and non-destructive, were demonstrated by controlling the negative bias voltage of the hydrogenation process. Our results show that the structure and magnetic properties of our sample can be tuned by the density of the induced defects. These results provide better understanding of the hydrogenation effect and thus can be used in the future for materials processing to meet the requirements of different devices.     

Magnon modes localized on defects in a two-dimensional array of magnetic microparticles with transverse anisotropy

The high-frequency properties of planar arrays of small ferromagnetic particles with point or linear defects have been investigated. The limiting cases of defects with localized lattice imperfections and with a long-range interaction caused by the magnetic dipole–dipole interaction have been considered. General conditions of the emergence of magnon modes localized on defects of various natures have been found. These conditions for an attractive defect differ considerably from those known in quantum mechanics for a particle localized in a potential well.