Nanocrystalline soft magnetic material is a fairly new development. The material composition is 82% iron with the remaining balance silicon, boron, niobium, copper, carbon, molybdenum, and nickel. The raw material is manufactured and supplied in an amorphous state. It is recrystalized into a precise mix of amorphous and Nanocrystalline phases when annealed, giving the material it's unique magnetic properties
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Nanocrystalline soft magnetic coresNanocrystaaline NbCuFeSiB is a soft magnetic material produced from amorphous NbCuFeSiB ribbon which is made through rapid solidification of molten metal at a cooling rate of about a million degrees per second. The amorphous ribbons have a thickness about 30 μm. After special heat treatment, a -Fe(Si) nanocrystalline phase is formed at 20 nm size. This nanosized structure exhibits excellent soft magnetic properties.Before the nanocrystalline soft magnetic material is developed, the widely used soft magnetic materials were silicon steel、permalloy、ferrite and amorphous alloys, and they play an important role in switched mode power supplies, electric power system equipment, electric meter and electric apparatus. But soft magnetic properties for the mentioned material are not perfect, the magnetic properties of all these soft magnetic materials have disadvantages. The silicon steel has high saturation flux density, but the permeability is very low particularly in high operating frequency; the ferrite exhibits good high frequency properties, but the saturation flux density and permeability is low; permalloy shows high permeability and low coercivity(Hc), but the Bs is low and can not be used in high operating frequency; the Co-based amorphous presents high permeability and low loss in wide operating frequency, but the Bs is low and the raw material is expensive;the Fe-based amorphous has a advantage of high Bs and low price raw material, but the permeability is relatively low. With high permeability(μi>100000),high saturation flux density(Bs>1.0T) and low loss(P0.2/50kHz=15w/kg),the nanocrystalline alloy exhibits excellent soft magnetic properties. The nanocrystalline cores have bright future in the fields of switched mode power supplies、common mode chokes、current transformers、 voltage independent RCCBs、IGBT inverter electric welder. Another factor effecting the mechanical stress magnetic stability of nanocrystalline alloy is that this kind of alloy is very fragile, slightly mechanical stress will make the material break, which leads to the significant enhancement of coercivity and the reduction of permeability. This is a magnificent difficult to hinder nanocrystalline alloy to find wide application in industry. By means of special heat treatment process, we can produce nanocrystalline cores with low coercivity of 0.2-0.6A/m,high initial permeability of μi equaling to 160-260k. All cores are surface treated and aged at 120oC for 3 hour to eliminate the irreversible loss, consequently the cores show special properties as follows: |
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Nanocrystalline common mode choke cores have high permeability which makes them
suitable for use in common mode chokes and superior to the material most
commonly used, Mn-Zn ferrite. Advantages of Nanocrystalline over Mn-Zn ferrite
cores:
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Table 1. Comparison of magnetic and physical properties between
Nanocrystalline and Mn-Zn ferrite
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