Title :
Current status of neodmium-iron-boron magnets
Author :
Matsuura, Yasuyuki
Author_Institution :
Sumitomo Special Metals America Inc., Torrance, CA, USA
fDate :
3/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Recently the Nd-Fe-B market has been growing rapidly. This driving force is not coming just from the existing markets of hard disk drives and magnetic resonance imagers. New applications are emerging in the areas of automobiles, industrial motors and appliance motors. Improvement of production engineering has made possible the volume production of 50 MGOe material. In the author´s laboratories an unheard of 55.8 MGOe magnet has been achieved. In this paper, the author discusses the current market situation of Nd-Fe-B magnets.
Keywords :
boron alloys; iron alloys; manufacture; neodymium alloys; permanent magnets; Nd-Fe-B market; NdFeB; appliance motors; applications; automobiles; current status; hard disk drives; industrial motors; magnetic resonance imagers; production engineering; volume production; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Bonding; Coercive force; Laboratories; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic materials; Magnetic properties; Magnets; Production; Servomotors;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
