1. Predicting the Future of Permanent-Magnet Materials.
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Skomski, Ralph, Manchanda, Priyanka, Kumar, Pankaj K., Balamurugan, B., Kashyap, Arti, and Sellmyer, D. J.
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IRON alloys ,PERPENDICULAR magnetic anisotropy ,ENHANCED magnetoresistance ,COERCIVE fields (Electronics) ,MAGNETIC properties of metals ,PERMANENT magnets ,MAGNETIZATION ,NANOSTRUCTURES - Abstract
There are two main thrusts towards new permanent-magnet materials: improving extrinsic properties by nanostructuring and intrinsic properties by atomic structuring. Theory—both numerical and analytical—plays an important role in this ambitious research. Our analysis of aligned hard-soft nanostructures shows that soft-in-hard geometries are better than hard-in-soft geometries and that embedded soft spheres are better than sandwiched soft layers. Concerning the choice of the hard phase, both a high magnetization and a high anisotropy are necessary. As an example of first-principle research, we consider interatomic Mn exchange in MnAl and find strongly ferromagnetic intralayer exchange, in spite of the small Mn-Mn distances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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