反铁磁性
凝聚态物理
矫顽力
材料科学
铁磁性
晶界
磁铁
磁场
微观结构
物理
冶金
量子力学
作者
Jianing Liu,Ruiwen Xie,Alex Aubert,Lukas Schäfer,Hongbin Zhang,Oliver Gutfleisch,Konstantin P. Skokov
出处
期刊:Cornell University - arXiv
日期:2023-05-04
标识
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2305.02889
摘要
The understanding of coercivity mechanism in high performance Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets relies on the analysis of the magnetic properties of all phases present in the magnets. By adding Cu in such compounds, a new Nd6Fe13Cu grain boundary phase is formed, however, the magnetic properties of this phase and its role in the magnetic decoupling of the matrix Nd2Fe14B grains are still insufficiently studied. In this work, we have grown Nd6Fe13Cu single crystals by the reactive flux method and studied their magnetic properties in detail. It is observed that below the N\'eel temperature (TN = 410 K), the Nd6Fe13Cu is antiferromagnetic in zero magnetic field; whereas when a magnetic field is applied along the a-axis, a spin-flop transition occurs at approx. 6 T, indicating a strong competition between antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic interactions in two Nd layers below and above the Cu layers. Our atomistic spin dynamics simulation confirms that an increase in temperature and/or magnetic field can significantly change the antiferromagnetic coupling between the two Nd layers below and above the Cu layers, which, in turn, is the reason for the observed spin-flop transition. These results suggest that the role of antiferromagnetic Nd6Fe13Cu grain boundary phase in the coercivity enhancement of Nd-Fe-B-Cu magnets is more complex than previously thought, mainly due to the competition between its antiferro- and ferro-magnetic exchange interactions.
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