Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2013, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 461-466.DOI: 10.1007/s40195-013-0079-y

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Enhanced Magnetostriction of a Narrow Hysteresis  Tb0.26Dy0.54Ho0.20Fe2 Alloy

Xingwen PAN, Changsheng ZHANG, Tianyu MA, Mi YAN,Jing LI   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • Received:2013-02-05 Revised:2013-04-17 Online:2013-08-25 Published:2013-07-11
  • Contact: Tianyu MA
  • Supported by:

    Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (No. 201037), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2012QNA4007) and the Projects of Nonprofit Technology & Research in Zhejiang Province (No. 2013C31025).

Abstract:

In this work, a magnetic annealing method used to enhance the magnetostrictive property of a narrow hysteresis alloy Tb0.26Dy0.54Ho0.20Fe2 is reported. Cylindrical-rod shaped specimen with <110> crystal orientation was fabricated using zone-melting unidirectional solidification technique, followed by annealing in a transverse magnetic field of 366 kA/m. The crystal orientation and bi-phase solidified morphology can be retained after magnetic annealing. A high magnetostriction of 1.508×10- 3 was obtained in the magnetically annealed specimen, which is 25.2% larger than the untreated one. Simultaneously, the magnetostriction hysteresis width is slightly enlarged from 4.45 to 6.36 kA/m, which is still much lower than that of the Ho-free Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe2 alloy. The additional anisotropy which is induced by magnetic annealing, as reflected by the magnetic hysteresis loops, is responsible for the enhancement of magnetostrictive performance.

Key words: Magnetostriction, Magnetostriction hysteresis, Induced anisotropy