Novel Permanent Magnets by High-Throughput Experiments

Bulk high-throughput experiments allow the exploration of unknown alloy systems for novel permanent magnet phases. This multilevel concept is threefold. Search field prioritization is based on physical, technological, and economic aspects to identify promising systems in advance. Efficient synthesis is based on heterogeneous nonequilibrium states to scan the most interesting part of the phase diagram of one alloy system by one sample. An efficient analysis is based on the characteristic domain structure of hard magnetic phases to evaluate the magnetic properties and industrial relevance of the novel phases. The efficiency of the elaborate concept is demonstrated for the well-known ternary system Fe-Nd-B and then applied to discover novel phases for permanent magnets.