TY - JOUR
AU - Périgo, E. A.
AU - Mettus, D.
AU - Gilbert, E. P.
AU - Hautle, P.
AU - Niketic, N.
AU - van den Brandt, B.
AU - Kohlbrecher, J.
AU - McGuiness, P.
AU - Fu, Z.
AU - Michels, A.
TI - Magnetic microstructure of a textured Nd-Fe-B sintered magnet characterized by small-angle neutron scattering
JO - Journal of alloys and compounds
VL - 661
SN - 0925-8388
CY - Lausanne
PB - Elsevier
M1 - FZJ-2015-07230
SP - 110-114
PY - 2016
N1 - Art. No S0925838815317230
AB - We report the results of a small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) study on the magnetic microstructure of a textured Nd–Fe–B-based sintered permanent magnet. By combining unpolarized and polarized SANS (SANSPOL), we demonstrate that a number of important conclusions regarding the microscopic spin structure can be made. Specifically, the applied-field dependence of the unpolarized neutron data is in agreement with the existence of long-range spin-misalignment fluctuations, i.e., deviations of the magnetization from the mean direction on a real-space length-scale up to the micron range. In addition, measurements with polarized neutrons provide evidence for the presence of coupled nanometer-scale fluctuations in the nuclear and longitudinal magnetic scattering-length density.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000367521200017
DO - DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.11.167
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/279153
ER -