H. Kanekiyo et al., MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF V-AND-M-ADDED, FE3B-BASED, ND-FE-B NANOCRYSTALLINE PERMANENT-MAGNETS (M=AL, SI), Materials science & engineering. A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing, 182, 1994, pp. 868-870
Simultaneous addition of V and M (M = Al or Si) improves the squarenes
s of the hysteresis loops and the remanence of Fe3B-based, Nd-Fe-B har
d magnetic material. The V-and-M-added permanent magnet ribbons have H
(cl) = 360-410 kA m-1 and B(r) = 1.0-1.2 T. The microstructure of the
V-and V-and-M-added ribbons was investigated by transmission electron
microscopy. The average grain size of the V-added material is 40 nm in
diameter, whereas in the improved material with the V and M additions
the mean grain size is 20 nm. Within the framework of existing theori
es, the reduced grain size due to M addition contributes to the improv
ed magnetic properties.