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The character and role of grain boundaries in NdFeB-type alloys and magnets

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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 93 Issue 10

Abstract

The character and role of grain boundaries in NdFeB alloys and magnets are described and discussed. The role of the grain boundaries in the hydrogen decrepitation process is considered and the influence of the character and mobility of grain boundaries on the properties of fully dense sintered magnets is described. Grain boundaries also play an important role in the hydrogenation disproportionation desorption and recombination process whereby the coarse grain, cast material is converted to very fine grain particles.

Keywords: Grain boundaries; Permanent magnets; Hydrogen decrepitation (HD); Hydrogenation disproportionation desorption recombination (HDDR); NdFeB
Dr. Andrew Williams Department of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Tel.: +44 121 414 3959 Fax: +44 121 414 5232

Dedicated to Professor Dr. Helmut Kronmuller on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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Received: 2002-05-25
Published Online: 2022-02-12

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-2002-0171
Keywords for this article
Grain boundaries; Permanent magnets; Hydrogen decrepitation (HD); Hydrogenation disproportionation desorption recombination (HDDR); NdFeB

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Editorial
  4. Articles/Aufsätze
  5. Interplay between chemical and magnetic roughness of Pt in a Pt/Co bilayer investigated with X-ray resonant magnetic reflectometry
  6. Thermal stability and magnetic anisotropy dispersion in high-density hard-disk media
  7. Thickness dependence of magnetization structures in thin Permalloy rectangles
  8. Solving the selectivity problem in magnetic random access memories using configurations that form C-states
  9. Second-order magnetoelastic effects: From the Dirac equation to the magnetic properties of ultrathin epitaxial films for magnetic thin-film applications
  10. Magnetic relaxation in nanocrystalline systems: linking Monte Carlo steps with time
  11. Effect of domain size on the magneto-elastic damping in amorphous ferromagnetic metals
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  31. Bücher/Books
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  33. DGM Training/DGM Fortbildung
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