We have studied the effect of C, Al and Si additions on magnetic properties of melt-spun Nd-Fe-B permanent magnet alloys. The compositions of the alloys were chosen to be Fe
77.5Nd
15(B
1−xM
x)
7.5(M=C, Al, Si), 0.1≤
x≤0.4. The crystallization temperature of the melt-spun amorphous alloys increased with increasing concentration of the forth elements M. The Curie temperature of the Nd
2Fe
14B phase increased with increasing concentration of Si, whereas it decreased with C and Al.
The addition of the forth elements improved the magnetic properties. In the case of C addition, the intrinsic coercive field
iHc was little changed compared with the ternary alloy, but the remanence
Br showed high values in the composition range from
x=0.15 to
x=0.25, and the maximum energy product (
BH)
max was 1.6 to 1.8 times larger than that of the ternary alloy, which reached to maximal 93 kJ/m
3(11.5 MGOe). In the case of Al,
iHc was maximal 1.55 MA/m (19.5 kOe) in the range from
x=0.15 to
x=0.3,
Br and (
BH)
max showed high values all over the range.
Br and (
BH)
max showed high values also in the case of Si.
The alloys, Fe
77.5Nd
15Al
7.5 and Fe
77.5Nd
15Si
7.5, showed poor hard magnetic properties, in which the Nd
2Fe
14M phase did not appear. Instead, Fe
77.5Nd
15C
7.5 alloy showed a high
iHc value(0.7 MA/m) in the specimen heat-treated at 1073 K, where the Nd
2Fe
14C phase was clearly observed.
It is concluded from the variation of relative intensities of peaks of Mössbauer spectra that Al and Si atoms were preferentially substituted for one or two (
k2 and probably
j2) iron sites in the Nd
2Fe
14B phase, and C atoms occupied the B atom positions.
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