Critical state-induced emergence of superior magnetic performances in an iron-based amorphous soft magnetic composite

Liliang Shao; Rongsheng Bai; Yanxue Wu; Jing Zhou; Xing Tong; Hailong Peng; Tao Liang; Zongzhen Li; Qiaoshi Zeng; Bo Zhang; Haibo Ke; Weihua Wang

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Liliang Shao, Rongsheng Bai, Yanxue Wu, Jing Zhou, Xing Tong, Hailong Peng, Tao Liang, Zongzhen Li, Qiaoshi Zeng, Bo Zhang, Haibo Ke, Weihua Wang. Critical state-induced emergence of superior magnetic performances in an iron-based amorphous soft magnetic composite[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(2): 025301. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad2ae8

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Liliang Shao, Rongsheng Bai, Yanxue Wu, Jing Zhou, Xing Tong, Hailong Peng, Tao Liang, Zongzhen Li, Qiaoshi Zeng, Bo Zhang, Haibo Ke, Weihua Wang. Critical state-induced emergence of superior magnetic performances in an iron-based amorphous soft magnetic composite[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(2): 025301. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad2ae8

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Liliang Shao, Rongsheng Bai, Yanxue Wu, Jing Zhou, Xing Tong, Hailong Peng, Tao Liang, Zongzhen Li, Qiaoshi Zeng, Bo Zhang, Haibo Ke, Weihua Wang. Critical state-induced emergence of superior magnetic performances in an iron-based amorphous soft magnetic composite[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(2): 025301. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad2ae8

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Critical state-induced emergence of superior magnetic performances in an iron-based amorphous soft magnetic composite

Liliang Shao^{1, 2}
Rongsheng Bai^{1, 3}
Yanxue Wu⁴
Jing Zhou¹
Xing Tong¹
Hailong Peng⁴
Tao Liang⁵
Zongzhen Li⁶
Qiaoshi Zeng⁵
Bo Zhang¹
Haibo Ke^1,
Weihua Wang^{1, 2, 3,}

Materials Futures, Volume 3, Number 2

Received Date: 2023-12-14
Accepted Date: 2024-02-20
Rev Recd Date: 2024-01-28
Publish Date: 2024-03-05

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doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad2ae8

1.
Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, People’s Republic of China
2.
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China
3.
School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 100096, People’s Republic of China
4.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, People’s Republic of China
5.
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai 201203, People’s Republic of China
6.
Jiangsu JITRI Advanced Energy Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd, Changzhou 213000, People’s Republic of China
Authors contribution

Liliang Shao: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Data curation, Writing—Original draft preparation. Rongsheng Bai: Investigation, Data curation, Validation. Yanxue Wu and Hailong Peng: Investigation. Jing Zhou, Xing Tong and Bo Zhang: Supervision. Tao Liang and Qiaoshi Zeng: Investigation. Zongzhen Li: Investigation. Haibo Ke: Methodology, Writing—review & editing, Supervision, Project administration. Weihua Wang: Methodology, Writing—review & editing, Supervision, Project administration.

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: kehaibo@sslab.org.cn; E-mail: whw@iphy.ac.cn

Abstract

Abstract

AbstractSoft magnetic composites (SMCs) play a pivotal role in the development of high-frequency, miniaturization and complex forming of modern electronics. However, they usually suffer from a trade-off between high magnetization and good magnetic softness (high permeability and low core loss). In this work, utilizing the order modulation strategy, a critical state in a FeSiBCCr amorphous soft magnetic composite (ASMC), consisting of massive crystal-like orders (CLOs, ∼1 nm in size) with the feature of α-Fe, is designed. This critical-state structure endows the amorphous powder with the enhanced ferromagnetic exchange interactions and the optimized magnetic domains with uniform orientation and fewer micro-vortex dots. Superior comprehensive soft magnetic properties at high frequency emerge in the ASMC, such as a high saturation magnetization (M_s) of 170 emu g⁻¹ and effective permeability (μ_e) of 65 combined with a core loss (P_cv) as low as 70 mW cm⁻³ (0.01 T, 1 MHz). This study provides a new strategy for the development of high-frequency ASMCs, possessing suitable comprehensive soft magnetic performance to match the requirements of the modern magnetic devices used in the third-generation semiconductors and new energy fields.
- amorphous soft magnetic composites,
- critical state,
- soft magnetic property,
- rotating magnetic field annealing,
- magnetic domain

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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