Jy. Park et al., THE MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES OF ULTRATHIN FE-BASED NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOY OBTAINED BY FLASH ANNEALING, Materials science & engineering. A, Structural materials: properties, microstructure and processing, 226, 1997, pp. 685-688
In an effort to obtain soft magnetic materials with excellent high-fre
quency characteristics, effects of flash annealing on magnetic propert
ies and microstructure in melt-spun Fe-B-Nb-Cu alloy with ultrathin ri
bbon shape less than 10 mu m thickness were investigated. The alloy su
bjected to optimum annealing treatment showed higher effective permeab
ility and smaller magnetic core loss at 1 MHz than conventionally anne
aled alloy. The enhanced magnetic properties of the flash-annealed all
oy were attributed to the reduced alpha-Fe phase grain size to 6 nm an
d the lower remanence ratio of about 0.3 in comparison to the conventi
onally annealed alloy with the values of 9 nm and 0.7, respectively. T
he results show that the flash annealing technique was effective in im
proving the high-frequency soft magnetic properties of Fe-B-Nb-Cu nano
crystalline alloy. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science S.A.