Microstructure and properties of low-temperature aged Dy-doped Nd-Fe-B magnet

Abstract

In this work, a low temperature ageing process for the high coercivity Dy-doped Nd-Fe-B magnets was developed by the optimizing ageing process. The experimental results show that there is no difference in microstructures, crystal orientation, magnetic and mechanical properties between the low-temperature aged and the two-stage aged sintered Dy-doped Nd-Fe-B magnets. Because of the uneven stress distribution in the sintered Dy-doped Nd-Fe-B magnet and the high activation of Dy element, Dy atoms could diffuse into the main crystal phase and the grain boundary phases of the magnets during low-temperature ageing process, which results in the reasonable distribution of Dy element and formation of the thin and uniform grain boundary phases, which are the main reasons to improve intrinsic coercivity of the Dy-doped Nd-Fe-B magnets by the low-temperature ageing.

Keywords

magnetic materials / magnetic properties / mechanical properties

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