Advanced Magnets for Power Systems

Abstract

This research is focused on (1) design of novel nanocomposite structures for high energy-product permanent magnets, (2) design of enhanced high-temperature Co-based alloys by compound-alloy modifications, and (3) development of enhanced hard and soft magnets via novel processing methods including mechanical alloying, cluster-assembled materials, and rolling techniques. Model nanocomposite hard-soft combinations have been developed with energy products of about 50 MGOe and coercivities of about 40 kOe. A theoretical understanding has been achieved of the structural characteristics needed to produce high energy products in the exchange-coupled nanocomposites. A variety of 2:17, 1:7, 5:17 and modified compounds have been investigated both experimentally and theoretical. It has been shown that transition-metal additions such as Ti, Cu, and Zr, are capable of stabilizing the disordered hexagonal Sm(CoM)7 phase with beneficial increases in anisotropy. Considerable development work on processing methods has been performed in this period.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA406752

Entities

People

  • David J. Sellmyer
  • Diandra Leslie-pelecky
  • J. P. Liu
  • Jeffrey Shield
  • Sitaram S. Jaswal

Organizations

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coercivity
  • Curie Temperature
  • Elements
  • Energy
  • Grain Boundaries
  • Heat Treatment
  • High Energy
  • High Temperature
  • Magnetic Materials
  • Magnetic Properties
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Metals
  • Nanocomposites
  • Nanoparticles
  • Transition Metals

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Powder metallurgy of Titanium alloys.
  • Superconducting Magnet Technology