Element-specific magnetic domain imaging of (Nd, Dy)-Fe-B sintered magnets using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2672-2675

  Ono, Kanta ^a   Araki, Tohru ^b   Yano, Masao ^c   Miyamoto, Noritaka ^c   Shoji, Tetsuya ^c   Kato, Akira ^c   Manabe, Akira ^c   Nozaki, Hiroshi ^b   Kaneko, Yuji ^b   Raabe, Jörg ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Rd Management Section   (Japan)

^c TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetic domains; Nd Fe B; permanent magnets; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

DYSPROSIUM COMPOUNDS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IRON ALLOYS; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; MAGNETS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SINTERING; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAY MICROSCOPES;

MAGNETIC CONTRAST; MAGNETIC DOMAIN IMAGING; MAGNETIC DOMAIN PATTERNS; MULTIDOMAIN STRUCTURE; ND-FE-B; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; XRAY IMAGING;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 80053467944     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2151844     Document Type: Article

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