The continuous and rapid increase of areal density in magnetic data storage systems required a continuous increase of the coercivity of the storage media. In order to be able to record on these everhigher-coercivity media, new soft magnetic materials for pole tips with increased magnetic moment had to be developed. Significant progress has been made during the last few years in electroplating a...

This chapter describes different rapidly solidified processing routes of soft magnetic alloys and their properties and applications in different areas. Section-2 explains the details of process mechanism. The functions of different alloying elements are discussed with the alloy design of soft magnetic alloys in section-3. The structureproperty correlation is described in section-4. Section-5 hi...

Highly supersaturated nanocrystalline Fe,Culcc-X alloys (lO<n<95) have been prepared by mechanical alloying of elemental crystalline powders. The development of the microstructure is investigated by x-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, and transmission electron microscopy. The results are compared with data for ball-milled elemental Fe and Cu powders, samples prepared by inert ...

Piston aluminum alloys have different intermetallic phases, such as Cu3Al, Mg2Si ,and AlNi phases. The morphology and the distribution of such phases have important roles on mechanical properties of the piston material. Therefore, in this research, various ageing heat treatments on the mentioned material were done and the microstructural feature and the hardness were studi...

PURPOSE The influence of dental alloys on MRI of the temporomandibular joint was studied using a phantom model for this joint. METHODS At 1,5 T, 15 dental alloys and 14 of their most important components were investigated acquiring sagittal (FOV: 150 mm) and transverse (FOV: 250 mm) T1-weighted SE images. In 11 cases, T1- and T2*-weighted FLASH images were measured additionally. The artifacts...

A systematic study of depth-sensing indentation was performed on nanocrystalline (nc) Ni–W alloys specially synthesized with controlled unidirectional gradients in plastic properties. A yield strength gradient and a roughly constant Young’s modulus were achieved in the nc alloys, using electrodeposition techniques. The force vs. displacement response from instrumented indentation experiments ma...

A volume expansion of up to ~310% occurs upon the lithiation of silicon in Si-coated nickel inverse opal anodes, which causes (de)lithiation-induced mismatch stresses and strains between the Si and Ni during battery cyclical (dis)charging. These (de)lithiation-induced mismatch strains and stresses are modeled via sequentially coupled diffusionand stress-based finite element (FE) analysis, which...

Fe,,,Ni, with xs30 at.%, known as anti-Invar alloys, undergo mprtensitic transformations. Total energy calculations have shown that these alloys incorporate a strongly fluctuating magnetic moment in the fcc state. In order to undeixtand the relationship between the moment fluctuations and the martensitic transformation, we have investigated the magnetic moment in the paramagnetic fcc state of t...

Permeability and coercivity are the most important parameters for the evaluation of soft magnetic materials. The criteria for the softest magnetic materials demand very high permeability and / or extremely low coercivity and these properties necessitate the anisotropy energy and the magnetoelastic energy tend towards zero. These unique demands are fulfilled when the FINEMET type of nanocrystall...

A systematic investigation of the magnetization and mechanical properties of amorphous NixFeso-,BlSSiz is reported. The magnetization showed strong depression for x 2 50. The alloys with x 2 65 are paramagnetic at room temperature but the Young's modulus (as well as microhardness) decreased almost linearly with x at 77 and 300 K. It was concluded that bonding was primarily due to d-electrons re...