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The effect of composition on glass-forming ability, crystallization behavior, and soft magnetic properties of FeSiBCuNbNiCo amorphous/nanocrystalline alloys

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The effect of Si/Fe ratio on glass-forming ability, crystallization behavior, formed phase, and soft magnetic properties of Fe74−xSixBCuNbNiCo (X = 3, 4, 5, and 6) alloy ribbons is investigated. With decreasing the ratio of Si/Fe, the glass-forming abilities of Fe74−xSixBCuNbNiCo alloys decrease, the as-quenched X = 6 and 5 alloy ribbons are amorphous state, the X = 4 and 3 alloy samples precipitate FeNi3 in the amorphous precursors during melt-spinning technique. The as-quenched Fe74−xSixBCuNbNiCo (X = 3, 4, 5, and 6) alloy ribbons show two-stage crystallization behaviors; with X reducing, the onset temperature of the first crystallization decreases from 442 to 402 °C, and the temperature interval of onset crystallization of α-Fe and boride phases is 121–147 °C. After annealing at appropriate temperatures, with decreasing Si/Fe, the annealed Fe74−xSixBCuNbNiCo alloy samples show a significant decrease in Br and µ, which make the linearity of B–H hysteresis loop more pronounced. By comparison with X = 6 alloy, the annealed X = 3 alloy sample annealed at 480 °C × 60 min shows a great B–H linearity with a constant µ of 2.3k and higher Ms of 181 emu/g (Bs ≈ 1.7 T), leading to good resistance to DC bias in current transformers. The iron core with low µ and high Bs can enable current transformers to be used at high current power without saturation failure. Finally, we discussed that a high Bs and low constant µ in annealed X = 3 alloy could attribute to the coupling effect between α-Fe and FeNi3 nanocrystalline phases.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52071089), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2019A1515010886).

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    Ting Luo, Hailang Liu, Caimin Huang & Gao Yue

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    Fangtao Hou & Yuanzheng Yang

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TL: methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing—original draft. HL: project administration, supervision, writing—review & editing. CH: resources, data curation. GY: resources, investigation. FH: software, formal analysis. YY: conceptualization, funding acquisition, Writing—review & editing.

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Luo, T., Liu, H., Huang, C. et al. The effect of composition on glass-forming ability, crystallization behavior, and soft magnetic properties of FeSiBCuNbNiCo amorphous/nanocrystalline alloys. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 2167 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-11607-z

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