Effect of Heat Treatment Time on the Characteristics of Coating Formed on Nanocrystalline Finemet Foils

Subject Areas : Surface Engineering

Sima Mirzaei ¹ , Ali Jazayeri Gharehbagh ²

1 - Materials Research Center, Technology Development Institute, Sharif Branch of ACECR, Tehran, Iran
2 - Materials Research Center, Technology Development Institute, Sharif Branch of ACECR, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2015-11-01 Accepted : 2016-02-14 Published : 2016-03-01

Keywords: Planar Flow Casting (PFC) Process, Nanocrystalline Foil, Finemet, Insulating Coating, Magnetic Core,

Abstract :

In the present research, amorphous Fe73.5Si13.5B9Nb3Cu1 Finemet foils, 21-26µm in thickness and 5mm in width, were prepared by Planar Flow Casting (PFC) process. Wound cores of amorphous Finemet foils were simultaneously annealed and heat treated at 540°C for 60, 120 and 240 minutes in steam and air flow to form oxide insulating coating layer on both surfaces of the foils. The structure of nanocrystalline foils was examined by X-ray diffractometry (XRD). The thickness and chemical composition of the insulating coating layer were studied by Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM), Grazing Incidence XRD (GI-XRD) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) techniques. The results show that the coating thickness formed on air and wheel surfaces of the foil was in the range of 65-310 nm and these thin coating layers contain a mixture of iron, silicon, boron and niobium oxides. The study of magnetic properties in amorphous and nanocrystalline states revealed that nanocrystalline cores have superior soft magnetic properties compared with the amorphous ones. In other words, the heat treatment gives rise to a decrease in hysteresis loss and a significant increase in saturation induction and magnetic permeabilities.

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