The Special Issue Soft and Hard Magnetic Materials: Latest Advances Prospects aims to provide researchers with an overview of some aspects the current research in magnetic materials from theoretical studies their applications, including fabrication characterization [...]

the nanocrystallization of co67fe4cr7si8b14 amorphous ribbons which prepared by planar flow melt spinning process (pfms) was investigated. crystallization of the ribbons was studied by differential thermal analysis (dta), x-ray diffraction (xrd) and transmission electron microscopy (tem). the dta result of amorphous ribbon at heating rate of 10˚c/min showedoccurrence of phase transitions in two...

Tendency on miniaturization of the modern magnetic sensors and devices stimulates development of such magnetic materials with reduced dimensionality. Therefore magnetic materials with outstanding magnetic characteristics and reduced dimensionality recently gained much attention. Consequently thin wire with reduced geometrical dimensions (of order of 1-30 μm in diameter) gained importance within...

Lanthanide metals are a particular class of magnetic materials in which the magnetic moments are carried mainly by the localized electrons of the 4f shell. They are frequently found in technically relevant systems, to achieve, e.g., high magnetic anisotropy. Magnetooptical methods in the x-ray range are well suited to study complex magnetic materials in an element-specific way. In this work, we...

We review some of the significant contributions to the field of strongly correlated materials and complex magnets, arising from experiments performed at the Diamond Light Source (Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK) during the first few years of operation (2007-2014). We provide a comprehensive overview of Diamond research on topological insulators, multiferroics, complex oxides a...

Isotropic magnetic materials with high resonant frequencies are useful for applications in microwave devices. Undoped CoFe thin films, as common soft magnetic materials with high saturation magnetization, show isotropic characteristics but no high frequency response. Here, we use ferrite doped CoFe thin film to realize a resonant frequency higher than 4.5 GHz at all orientations. The exchange c...

This article presents an up-to-date magnetic material investigation and overview on magnetic materials used in rotating electrical machines. The focus is on small to mediumsized high-performance and high-efficiency permanent-magnet and induction motors for different application scenarios. The investigated materials include fully processed silicon-iron, nickeliron, and cobalt-iron lamination ste...