The role of Cu addition in the coercivity enhancement of sintered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 413-420

  Li, Wang Feng ^a   Ohkubo, T ^a   Akiya, T ^b   Kato, H ^b,c   Hono, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; PHASE INTERFACES; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BACK-SCATTERED ELECTRONS; COERCIVITY ENHANCEMENTS; CU ADDITIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; LASER-ASSISTED; ND-FE-B; ND-FE-B SINTERED MAGNETS; RICH PHASE; SERIAL SECTIONING; TEM; THIN LAYERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ATOM PROBES; TRACE ADDITIONS;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 61749094764     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0041     Document Type: Article

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