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Thermomagnetic Characteristics of the Hard Magnetic Materials with a Fine Microstructure due to a HDDR Process |
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 4, Number 1, 31 Mar 1999, Pages 26-32 |
H.W. Kwon(Pukyong National University), Yoon-B. Kim(Matal Processing Research Centre, Korea Institute of Science and Technology), W. Y. Jeung(Matal Processing Research Centre, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) |
Abstract |
The HDDR process can be used as an effective means of processing of the coercive Nd-Fe-B-type or the Sm2Fe17Nx materials. The HDDR (hydrogenation, disproportionation, desorption, recombination) processed materials are feartured with a very fine microstructure. The thermomagnetic characteristics of the Nd-Fe-B-type or the Sm2Fe17Nx materials with fine microstructure due to the HDDR process were investigated. It has been found that the fine-microstructured hard magnetic materials showed an unusual TMA (Thermomagnetic analysis) tracting featured with a low and constant magnetization at lower temperature range and a peak just below their Curie temperatures when a low external field is applied. This thermomagnetic characteristic was immediate particularly in the TMA with a low applied field. This thermomagnetic characteristic was interpreted in terms of the competition between two counteracting effects; the decrease in magnetication due to the thermal agitation at an elevated temperature and the increase in magnetization resulting from the rotation of magnetization of the fine grains comparable to a critical single domain size due to the decreased magnetocrystalline anisotropy at an elevated temperature. |
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