An Investigation Into The Effect Of Isothermal Annealing On Magnetic Properties In The Alloy: Fe64Co10Y6B20

Abstract

AbstractThis work presents the results of investigations into the structural and magnetic properties of the bulk amorphous alloy: Fe64Co10Y6B20. The structure, thermal stability and magnetic properties of the alloy were studied using: X-ray diffractometry, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), respectively. The investigations were performed on samples of the alloy in both the ‘as-cast’ state, and the state resulting from a process of isothermal annealing at a temperature of 750 K for 30 minutes.The aim of the conducted studies was to relax the structure and improve the soft magnetic properties of the investigated alloy. The results show that annealing the alloy at a temperature well below its crystallisation temperature leads to an increase in the value of the saturation magnetisation and a decrease in the value of the coercivity. Utilising the ‘approach to the ferromagnetic saturation’ theorem, the nature of structural defects within the investigated material has been established. For both ‘as-cast’ and isothermally-annealed samples, the magnetisation process has been found to be connected with the existence of linear structural defects.