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REPM 2021: The 26th International Workshop on Rare-Earth and Future Permanent Magnets and their Applications

Roadmap of Permanent Magnets

The IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices & Applications (WiPDA) provides a forum for device scientists, circuit designers, & application engineers from the Power Electronics & Electron Devices Societies to share technology updates, research findings, experience & potential applications.

**Topics of interest**

* Heteroepitaxial & Bulk Materials Growth
* Gate Dielectrics & Surface Passivation
* Device Structures & Fabrication Techniques
* Device Characterization & Modeling
* Very-High Efficiency or Compact Converters
* Safe Operating Areas of Wide Bandgap Devices, Including Short Circuit, Spike, & Transient Tolerance
* Harsh Environment (High Temperature) Operation & Reliability
* Packaging Power Modules & ICs
* Hard-Switched & Soft-Switched Application Analysis
* Gate Drive & Other Auxiliary Circuits
* High-Performance Passive Components
* Applications in Renewable Energy & Energy Storage, Transportation, Industrial Drives, & Grid Power Systems
* Wide Band Gap System Design Philosophies & Strategies
* Radio Frequency (RF) GaN (New)
* Technology Roadmap of Wide Bandgap Including Devices, Applications and Packaging (New)

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IEEE WiPDA 2021

The IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices & Applications (WiPDA) provides a forum for device scientists, circuit designers, & application engineers from the Power Electronics & Electron Devices Societies to share technology updates, research findings, experience & potential applications.

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It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 26th International Workshop on Rare Earth and Future Permanent Magnets and Their Applications (REPM2021) which will be held virtually on June 7-10, 2021. Please note, this is an updated schedule due to COVID-19 travel restrictions which forced us to postpone the conference from summer of 2020. The REPM workshop takes place every two years and is the premier conference on permanent magnets covering a wide range of topics including:

* Rare earth magnets
* Rare earth-free magnets
* Raw materials, mining and recycling
* Advanced synthesis, processing and characterization techniques
* Theoretical modeling of coercivity
* Fundamental properties of advanced magnetic materials
* Thin film magnets
* Applications of permanent magnets

***Workshop***
The workshop will be chaired by Professor George C. Hadjipanayis, University of Delaware, Newark, DE and Dr. Jinfang Liu, President & COO of Electron Energy Corporation, Landisville, PA.
The objectives of the workshop are to bring together engineers and scientists who work on permanent magnets and their applications to present their latest results and exchange ideas on a wide range of relevant topics including resources, raw materials, recycling, processing, fundamental and hard magnetic properties and applications of rare earth and future magnets.

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Sm-Fe-N is one of prospective candidates for new generation permanent magnet materials due to its extremely high anisotropy field as well as a quite high Curie temperature. A serious drawback of this material is that sintering at temperatures above 620C results in thermal decomposition, making impossible to produce bulk specimens by conventional powder metallurgical processes. Previously, our research group employed pressure current sintering and succeeded in producing isotropic bulk Sm-Fe-N magnets. However, it was also revealed that the coercivity of the original powder was significantly degraded by sintering. In the later study we proposed a hypothesis that the surface oxide might be reduced to form alpha-Fe during sintering. Our most recent study actually proved this hypothesis. To overcome this problem, our group recently developed a low-oxygen powder metallurgy technique wherein all the powder metallurgical processes are carried out inside glove boxes. This technique enabled us to produce extremely high performance Sm-Fe-N fine powder, making it possible to produce anisotropic bulk magnet without coercivity degradation due to the reduction of oxide. 
Nevertheless, another newly arisen problem is the maximum energy product of the sintered anisotropic magnet is not as great as that of the aligned original powder although the high coercivity is maintained. It is quite possible that the particles are damaged during the pulverization process. In this study, the crystallinity and the microstructure of the Sm-Fe-N powder produced by our low oxygen powder metallurgical process.
Commercially available Sm-Fe-N powder was subjected to pulverization by jet-milling with nitrogen gas inside a glove box. The obtained fine powder was gently oxidized at a pass box and then taken out to outside glove box. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was performed to check the crystallinity of the powder. The fine powder was then brought inside a vacuum chamber of focused ion beam – scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) apparatus to pick up microsample for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observation. The microsample was picked up so that the microstructure of the whole particle can be visualized. The TEM observation was carried out using FEI Talos operated at 200 kV. The magnetic properties were measured by using physical property measurement system equipped with vibrating sample magneto meter (PPMS-VSM, Quantum Design/ Dynacool 7).
The particle diameters were significantly reduced down to submicron region, and the coercivity was significantly increased consequently. The maximum energy product of the aligned powder exhibited 43 MGOe in a good case. However, careful analyses of the XRD patterns of those as-milled powders revealed that the full width half maxima (FWHM) significantly increased after jet-milling. Also, the TEM observation revealed that there are polycrystalline regions at the surfaces of pulverized particles. It is likely that these polycrystalline regions are the critical factor of the deterioration of the magnet properties after. During the talk, a possible strategy to improve the performance of the sintered magnets will be discussed.


Roles of local texture in crystallinity and magnetic properties of highly coercive Sm-Fe-N fine powder by jet-milling

Phase formation and magnetization reversal process in Nd1+XFe11Ti compounds

Our 2 powder method* is a novel way to enrich Nd 2 Fe 14 B grains with a shell of high magnetic anisotropy. Thus preventing the nucleation of reversed domains in large sintered blocks without magnet size limitation and at the same time, the minimization of the total heavy rare earth (HRE) content in the large magnet volume. Here, two powders with differences in particle size and chemical composition were blended and sintered together. The powder with the smaller average particle size (AP anisotropy powder) includes HREs like Dy or Tb and therefore, shows a significantly higher magneto crystalline anisotropy than the second powder with larger average particle size (MP main phase powder). Further, the average particle size of the MP is at least 50 100 larger than the particle size of the AP During sintering, the anisotropy powder will turn into the liquid phase first, because of the higher surface energy of smaller particles . This results in a homogeneous distribution of the HREs around the 2 14 1 grains and finally forms a core shell structure .Therefore, by use of the 2 powder method, size independent HRE lean magnets can be produced, which is not the case for the grain boundary diffusion (GBDP) and no additional diffusion treatment after the normal sintering procedure is necessary, making the 2 powder method useful to integrate in the commercial used mass production for high performance didymium based sintered magnets.

Upscaling the 2-Powder Method for the Manufacturing of Heavy Rare Earth-Lean Sintered didymium-based Magnets

Nd(Fe,Mo)12 nitrogenation reaction kinetics versus temperature and nitrogen pressure

The criticality of rare-earth elements and its impact on the permanent magnet market have initiated a search for alternative material systems, either to fill the magnetic performance gap between ferrites and Nd-Fe-B magnets or to even replace the existing benchmark systems. Ce-based systems are attractive due to the abundance of cerium, however the formation of secondary phases leads to challenges for Ce-based compounds.
In this work we investigated the phase formation properties of CeFe11Ti system together with the microstructural and magnetic properties. Additionally we carried out introduction of interstitial nitrogen and hydrogen atoms to the parent system. The structural and magnetic characterizations of the interstitially doped systems are also investigated by means of experiments and theoretical calculations. A significant reduction is observed for the anisotropy field values of nitrogenated CeFe11TiNx composition and the reason for this reduction is associated to the Kondo screening of the Ce-4f magnetic moment in the ThMn12-type system. The calculations show the enhancement of the screening of the 4f moment for the nitrogenated samples [1]. 
Temperature dependent structural analysis of the CeFe11Ti composition indicate an Invar-type anomaly around the Curie temperature where a M2 behavior is observed as expected from the magnetostriction theory. Microstructural analysis results indicate the formation of twinned grains which are also observed for other ThMn12-type structures with a twin angle of 58°±2° [2]. 
Isothermal magnetization measurements of CeFe11Ti compound under hydrostatic pressure were carried out and a slight decrease in the anisotropy field values is observed. This reduction of the anisotropy is associated to the expected reduction of the Curie temperature under 0.45 GPa hydrostatic pressure.
This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) RE-MAP project with the project number 316912154 and MagHEM commissioned by NEDO, Japan.
[1] A. Galler, S. Ener, F. Maccari, I. Dirba, K. P. Skokov, O. Gutfleisch, S. Biermann, L.V. Pourovskii, njp Quantum Materials, 6 (2021) 2
[2] F. Maccari, S. Ener, D. koch, I. Dirba, K. P. Skokov, E. Bruder, L. Schäfer and O. Gutfleisch, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 867 (2021) 158805


Correlating changes of the unit cell and microstructure with the magnetic properties of CeFe11TiX compounds

Development of Composition and Powder Fabrication for the Additive Manufacturing of (Pr,Nd)-Fe-Cu-B Permanent Magnets

Searching for perfect defects challenging the Brown's paradox in permanent magnetism

Preparation of R-Fe alloy nanopowder by Induction thermal plasma process

The Effects of Zr + Fe2B additions on NdFeB-type Material during the Hydrogen Ductilisation Process (HyDP)

Permanent magnets are a key element of a sustainable and energy-efficient economy. While their use is becoming increasingly popular in energy-related applications, the current supply of neodymium for Nd-Fe-B magnets raises severe environmental and resource-security concerns. In response, projects like SUSMAGPRO undertake efforts to investigate recycling technologies.
As part of the SUSMAGPRO project, we assessed the environmental profile of hydrogen-based processing of magnetic scrap (HPMS) at lab scale. We performed a life cycle assessment comparing the production of sintered magnets made of Nd-Fe-B recovered via HPMS with the production using mined Nd. The assessment included the comparison of three coating alternatives: Ni-Cu-Ni, Ni and epoxy resin. The results indicate a better environmental performance of the recycled alternative compared to the primary alternative in all the evaluated impact categories. The advantage of the HPMS route is mainly driven by a lower use of energy. The coating of the recycled Nd-Fe-B magnets turned out to be the largest contributor to their environmental burden in several impact categories.
Nickel, Ni-Cu-Ni and epoxy coatings are just an option among a plethora of alternatives. From a recycling perspective, the evaluated metallic coatings are preferred because these allow an easier recycling than epoxy coatings. With this contribution, we take a step forward in answering the next question: How will the future supply chain of Nd magnets manage the trade-off between a higher environmental impact during manufacture and an increased recyclability?

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