Preparation and Characterization of Amorphous Soft Magnetic FeSiB Powders and Spark Plasma Sintered Compacts

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Wet mechanical alloying (MA) were used to prepare amorphous soft magnetic Fe75Si20B5 (at.%) powders starting from elemental powders of Fe, Si and B. The structural, morphological and magnetic properties of the powders were investigated. It was found that wet MA leads to the amorphisation of the alloy after 40 hours of wet milling using benzene (C6H6) as process control agent (PCA). The influence of the wet MA process on the saturation magnetization of the powders was investigated. Amorphous powder of Fe75Si20B5 (at.%) obtained by wet MA route was used to prepare compacts by spark plasma sintering (SPS). The chosen sintering temperature was 800, 850 and 900 oC. Toroidal samples of Fe75Si20B5 (at.%) were investigated in DC and AC magnetization regime and their magnetic properties were correlated with sintering parameters, compacts density and phases evolution during sintering.

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Solid State Phenomena (Volume 216)

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