Effect of degree of die upset on magnetic behavior in Nd{sub 13.9}(Fe{sub 0.92}Co{sub 0.08}){sub 80.3}B{sub 5.3}Ga{sub 0.5}
- Department of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973 (United States)
- Magnequench International, Inc., Anderson, Indiana (United States)
DC demagnetization (DCD), isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM), and reversible magnetization measurements were used to examine the magnetic reversal behavior in melt-quenched samples of composition Nd{sub 13.9}(Fe{sub 0.92}Co{sub 0.08}){sub 80.3}B{sub 5.3}Ga{sub 0.5} subjected to different levels of thermomechanical deformation (die upsetting). The reversible magnetization measurements indicate that in the thermally demagnetized condition domain walls are present within the material for all levels of deformation. During demagnetization from a saturated state, domain walls are present in a minority of grains at low levels of deformation but these domain walls disappear at higher levels of deformation. This behavior is explained in terms of changes in the relative strengths of nucleation and pinning fields. Comparison of these results to previous results obtained on similar materials indicate that changes in the magnetization behavior with degree of deformation are more marked in samples which are free of Ga, indicating that Ga additions act to suppress the nucleation of new domain walls, presumably in the grain boundaries. (c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.
- OSTI ID:
- 20216274
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 87, Issue 9; Other Information: PBD: 1 May 2000; ISSN 0021-8979
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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