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Phase Equilibria and Magnetic Phases in the Ce-Fe-Co-B System

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MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma10010016

Keywords

phase equilibria; Ce-Fe-Co-B quaternary system; magnetic phases; MFM; SEM/WDS

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  1. General Motors of Canada Ltd.
  2. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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Ce-Fe-Co-B is a promising system for permanent magnets. A high-throughput screening method combining diffusion couples, key alloys, Scanning Electron Microscope/Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Spectroscope (SEM/WDS), and Magnetic Force Microscope (MFM) is used in this research to understand the phase equilibria and to explore promising magnetic phases in this system. Three magnetic phases were detected and their homogeneity ranges were determined at 900 degrees C, which were presented by the formulae: Ce2Fe14-xCoxB (0 <= x <= 4.76), CeCo4-xFexB (0 <= x <= 3.18), and Ce3Co11-xFexB4 (0 <= x <= 6.66). The phase relations among the magnetic phases in this system have been studied. Ce-2(Fe, Co)(14)B appears to have stronger magnetization than Ce(Co, Fe)(4)B and Ce-3(Co, Fe)(11)B-4 from MFM analysis when comparing the magnetic interactions of selected key alloys. Also, a non-magnetic CeCo12-xFexB6 (0 <= x <= 8.74) phase was detected in this system. A boron-rich solid solution with Ce13FexCoyB45 (32 <= x <= 39, 3 <= y <= 10) chemical composition was also observed. However, the crystal structure of this phase could not be found in the literature. Moreover, ternary solid solutions epsilon(1) (Ce2Fe17-xCox (0 <= x <= 12.35)) and epsilon(2) (Ce2Co17-xFex (0 <= x <= 3.57)) were found to form between Ce2Fe17 and Ce2Co17 in the Ce-Fe-Co ternary system at 900 degrees C.

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