The kinetics of nanocrystallization of a Mn-doped FINEMET alloy from its amorphous precursor is reported. The alloy studied was of a composition (Fe1 Mn )73 5Nb3CuSi13 5B9 where = 0 05. X-ray diffraction (XRD) confirmed that -FeSi is the product of primary nanocrystallization. Crystallization kinetics were studied using time-dependent magnetization, ( ), as a measure of the volume fraction crys...

This paper presents experimental observations of the nanocrystallization process in materials having Fe–Si (FINEMET), a-Fe (NANOPERM), and a0-FeCo (HITPERM) nanocrystals coupled through an amorphous phase. Crystallization kinetics and chemical partitioning during crystallization are described. Isothermal nanocrystallization is discussed in the framework of the Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov mod...

Neutron diffraction has been used to study in situ the nanocrystallization process of Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si22.52xBx (x55, 9, and 12! amorphous alloys. Nanocrystallization results in a decrease of both the silicon content and the grain size of the Fe~Si! phase with increasing value of x. By comparing the radial distribution function peak areas with those predicted for ideal bcc and DO3 structure, it ca...

This is well known that amorphous state is metastable. Metastability of amorphous or glassy metal alloys offers the possibility of phase separation diffusion of various species and structural relaxation even though the alloys remains amorphous when they are annealed at temperature well below the crystallization temperature. All these changes have effect on the intrinsic magnetic properties such...

W-MAST (Wakasa-wan Energy Research Center Multipurpose Accelerator with Synchrotron and Tandem) consists of a tandem accelerator with 5MV terminal voltage and a compact ion synchrotron. The beam commissioning was started at the beginning of 1999 and was successfully accomplished in March 2000. A proton beam of 10MeV was injected from the tandem accelerator and accelerated by the ion synchrotron...

The domain wall movement and magnetization rotations processes are separated experimentally in quasi-static magnetization process of a Finemet type ultrasoft magnetic material. The reversible domain rotations contribution is obtained from the integration of the reversible permeability, μDR, as a function of biasing DC field, measured with very small alternative field amplitude, less than 0.05Hc...