Enhanced Electrical Resistivity and Soft Magnetic Properties in Ca-Doped Fe-B-Cu Alloy Ribbons

Abstract:

Fe_83.5B₁₅Cu_1.5Ca_x (x= 0.04, 0.07, 0.1 and 0.13) alloy ribbons were fabricated by melt spinning. The effects of Ca addition on electrical resistivity and soft magnetic properties were investigated. The results show that with increasing Ca content from 0.04 to 0.13 the electrical resistivity monotonously increases from 0.51 μΩ·m to 0.99 μΩ·m while the core loss reduced by 39% and 28% at 10 kHz and 20kHz under an applied magnetic field of 200 mT, respectively. After annealing at 420°C for 10min, sample with x=0.13 obtains the peak saturation induction density (B_s) of 1.82 T and coercive force (H_c) of 18 A/m. Especially, the core loss of sample x=0.13 decreased by 13% and 34% than that of x= 0.04 at 200 kHz under an applied magnetic field of 25 mT and 50 mT respectively. Therefore, the soft magnetic properties and core loss can be tuned by addition of Ca in Fe-B-Cu alloy ribbons.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 873)
• Pages: 23-27
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.873.23
• Online since: September 2016
• Authors: Zhi Gang Zheng*, J.S. Zhang, H.Y. Yu, B. Li, D.C. Zeng, F.M. Xiao, T. Sun, R.H. Tang
• Keywords: Core Loss, Electrical Resistivity, Melt Spinning, Saturation Flux Density

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