Published October 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Investigation of chemical composition and crystal structure in sintered Ce15Nd15FebalB1 magnet

  • 1. Beijing Engineering Laboratory of Advanced Metallic Magnetic Materials and Preparation Techniques, Beijing 100081 (China)
  • 2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083 (China)
  • 3. Functional Materials Research Institute, Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing 100081 (China)

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The substitution of cerium, a more abundant rare-earth element, for sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets has drawn intense interest. In the present work, nominal composition of Ce15Nd15FebalB1 (wt. %), with cerium constitutes increased to 50% of the total rare-earth content, was used. And Ce-free Nd30FebalB1 (wt. %) was prepared by the same preparation process as comparison. The microstructure of the sintered magnets has been investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscope. The results show that there are three kinds of RE-rich phases in the same magnet, i.e., fcc-(Ce,Nd)Ox (a=0.547nm), hcp-(Ce,Nd)2O3 (a=0.386nm, c=0.604nm) and bcc-(Ce,Nd)2O3 (a=1.113nm). Ors of (140)(Ce,Nd)2Fe14B// (1-21)bcc-(Ce,Nd)2O3(∼3°), [001](Ce,Nd)2Fe14B// [-214]bcc-(Ce,Nd)2O3; (01-1)(Ce,Nd)2Fe14B// (101)fcc- (Ce,Nd)Ox(∼2°), [101](Ce,Nd)2Fe14B// [12-1]fcc-(Ce,Nd)Ox were found through selected area electron diffraction (SAED) analysis. According to the analysis, it can be concluded that cerium has partly substituted for neodymium by occupying the corresponding atom sites in the Ce15Nd15FebalB1 magnet, without changing the crystal configuration

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Journal Title
AIP Advances
Journal Volume
4
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 107127-107127.7
ISSN
2158-3226
CODEN
AAIDBI

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