• Title of article

    Recent developments in the sintering of NdFeB

  • Author/Authors

    B.E Davies، نويسنده , , R.S Mottram، نويسنده , , I.R Harris، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوهفته نامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    272
  • To page
    281
  • Abstract
    Sintering plays a major role in the production of fully dense rare-earth permanent magnets. The sintering of these magnets is assisted by a rare-earth rich, grain boundary phase, which is liquid well below the sintering temperature and wets the surface of the hard magnetic (Nd2Fe14B) matrix grains. As well as aiding densification, this phase plays an important role in smoothing and isolating grains to produce a microstructure conducive to good magnetic properties. In this paper, previous studies of sintering in NdFeB-type magnets are reviewed briefly and recent investigations in these laboratories are described. In these studies, dilatometry has been used to study densification in NdFeB powder compacts over a range of temperatures and times. The effect of composition on the rate of densification was also investigated using a powder blending technique to vary the composition prior to sintering. Rare-earth hydrides were employed to vary the proportion and composition of the liquid phase during sintering.
  • Keywords
    Liquid phase sintering , NdFeB , Permanent magnet
  • Journal title
    Materials Chemistry and Physics
  • Serial Year
    2001
  • Journal title
    Materials Chemistry and Physics
  • Record number

    1060428