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Structures and magnetic properties of Sm-Fe-N bulk magnets produced by the spark plasma sintering method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Tetsuji Saito
Tetsuji Saito*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan
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a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: tetsuji.saito@it-chiba.ac.jp
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Abstract

Sm-Fe-N powders were successfully consolidated at 873 K and below by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method. Although the decomposition temperature of the hard magnetic Sm2Fe17N3 phase has been reported to be 873 K, partial decomposition of the Sm2Fe17N3 phase was noted in the bulk materials obtained by sintering at below that temperature. The resultant bulk materials showed a coercivity of around 0.24 MAm−1, significantly lower than that of the original Sm-Fe-N powder. It was found that decomposition of the Sm2Fe17N3 phase in the SPS method was significantly lowered by the addition of a small amount of Zn powder to the Sm-Fe-N powder. The bulk material obtained by sintering a mixture of Sm-Fe-N and Zn powder (10%Zn) at 723 K exhibited high coercivity, comparable with that of the original Sm-Fe-N powder.

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Magnetic propertiesSinteringNitride
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 22 , Issue 11 , November 2007 , pp. 3130 - 3136
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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