• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.3-6
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• 2002

Effect of Ag additive element on microstructure of $Fe_{87-x}Zr_7B_6Ag_x$, magnetic thin films on Si(001) substrates has been investigated using Transmission Electron Microscopy(TEM) and X-ray Diffraction(XRD). All samples with additive Ag element were made by DC-sputtering and subjected to annealing treatments of $300^{\circ}C{\siim}600^{\circ}C$ for 1 hr. TEM and XRD showed that perfectly amorphous state in Ag-free Fe-based films was observed in as-deposited condition. The as-deposited Fe-based films with the presence of Ag constituent have a mixture of Fe-based amorphous and nano-sized Ag crystalline phases. In this case, additive element, Ag was soluted into Fe-based matrix. With the increase in additive element, Ag, insoluble nano-crystalline Ag particles were dispersed in the Fe-based amorphous matrix. Crystallization of Fe-based amorphous phase in the matrix of $Fe_{82}Zr_7B_6Ag_5$ thin films occurred at an annealing temperature of $400^{\circ}C$. Upon annealing, the amorphous-Ag crystalline state of Fe-Zr-B-Ag films was transformed into the mixture of Ag crystalline phase + Fe-based amorphous phase + ${\alpha}$-Fe cluster followed by the crystallization process of ${\alpha}$-Fe nanocrystalline + Ag crystalline phases.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.963-968
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• 2000

Magnetic properties and microstructures of Fe$\_$93-x/Zr$_3$B$_4$Ag$\_$x/ thin films were investigated as a function of addition of element Ag, (X$\_$Ag/=0 to 6 at.%) and annealing temperature, T$\_$a/=300$\^{C}$ to 600$\^{C}$. In the case of adding Ag, magnetic properties of Fe$\_$93-x/Zr$_3$B$_4$Ag$\_$x/ thin films were improved than those of Ag-free Fe$\_$93/Zr$_3$B$_4$thin films. The prominent soft magnetic properties with coercivity of 1.1 Oe, saturation magnetization of 2.2 T and permeability of 5400 at 50㎒ were obtained from Fe$\_$88/Zr$_3$B$_4$Ag$\_$5/ thin film annealed was lower than that of Fe-base or Co-base thin films reported previously. Such enhanced magnetic properties are presumably attributed to the format in ultra fine grains. Also, the reduced eddy current loss in the annealed sample is due to refined micro magnetic domains with increasing the amount of Ag in Fe$\_$93-x/Zr$_3$B$_4$Ag$\_$x/ thin films.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.1806-1808
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• 2000

MHz영역에서 사용 가능한 Fe계 연자성 재료를 초미세 결정립으로 제조하기 위해 $Fe_{93}Zr_{3}B_4$ 박막을 기본조성으로 하여 Fe와 비고용이며 약반자성인 Ag 원소를 0, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 at.% 첨가시킨 $Fe_{93-x}Zr_{3}B_{4}Ag_{x}$ 박막을 DC 마그네트론 스퍼터링법으로 제조하였다. 그리고, 300-600$^{\circ}C$ 온도 범위에서 1시간동안 열처리한 후 강제공냉법으로 냉각한 후 XRD를 이용하여 열처리 온도 및 Ag 첨가량에 따른 결정상 동정을 조사하였다. Ag가 첨가되지 않은 $Fe_{93}Zr_{3}B_4$ 박막의 경우 $\alpha$-Fe의 (110) 피크만 관찰되었다. Ag가 첨가된 경우에는, Ag의 양이 증가함에 따라 $\alpha$-Fe 결정상의 형성이 억제되고, 비정질형태의 broad한 ${\alpha}-Fe_{(110)}$ 피크와 Ag피크가 관찰되었다. Ag가 첨가된 As-deposited 시편을 열처리 할 경우 박막의 비정질화로 주 peak인 $\alpha$-Fe 피크의 강도가 현저히 낮아지고 상대적으로 Ag peak가 두드러졌다. Ag의 양이 3a/o인 경우는 열처리온도 400$^{\circ}C$이상에서 박막의 결정화로 $\alpha$-Fe Peak가 나타나고 상대적으로 Ag 구성원소의 피크의 강도는 현저하게 낮아졌다 또한. Ag의 양 증가할수록 As-deposited 박막 내에 Ag 구성원소외 피크의 강도는 증가하여 $\alpha$-Fe와 Ag가 서로 비고용 상태로 서로 혼재되어 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.285-290
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• 1999

The magnetic properties of sputtered amorphous $Fe_{86.7}Zr_{3.3}B_4Ag_6$ thin films, which contains an additional insoluble element Ag, have been investigated as a function of uniaxal field annealing temperature. The amorphous $Fe_{86.7}Zr_{3.3}B_4Ag_6$ thin films produced by relatively low temperature annealing at 40$0^{\circ}C$ for 1 hour was found to have very high permeability of 7800 at 50 MHz, 0.2 mOe, high magnetization of 1.7 T, low coercivity of 1.0 Oe and very low core loss of 1.4 W/cc at 1 MHz, 0.1 T, respectively. It is notable that the permeability and core loss values for various kinds of the soft magnetic thin films reported up to now. The reason for the appearance for the good soft magnetic properties is presumably due to the homogeneous formation of very fine bcc $\alpha$-Fe clusters with the size in the amorphous $Fe_{86.7}Zr_{3.3}B_4Ag_6$ thin films matrix, which can be deduced from the XRD results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1994.05a
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• pp.120-122
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• 1994

We examined the magnetic properties as a function of annealing temperature of the as-quenched $Fe_{87}Zr_{7}B_{5}Ag_{1}$ amorphous alloy. The values of $H_{c}$=30m0e, $B_{a}$=0.44T and ${\mu}$i=146000 at $300^{\circ}C$ annealing treatment are obtained. The excel lent soft magnetic properties seem to result from the annihilation of quenching-Induced internal stress by the heat treatment and the change of microstructure due to the different relaxation behavior owing to adding insoluble element such as Ag. Therefore, the $Fe_{87}Zr_{7}B_{5}Ag_{1}$ amorphous alloy is quite promising for practical use as a core material in various transformers of high transformers of high frequency.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 1995

The magnetic properties of an $Fe_{87}Zr_{7}B_{5}Ag_{1}$(at.%) amorphous alloy have been investigated as a function of annealing temperatures to clarify its application potential as a core material for high-frequency use by adding a small amount of insoluble element of Ag. A new excellent soft magnetic material was developed. The amorphous alloy produced by relatively low temperature annealing at $T_{a}=400^{\circ}C$ exhibited very high initial permeability$(\mu_{i})$ of 288,000 at 1kHz and 2mOe, very low coercivity$(H_{c})$ of 15mOe and low core loss$(W_{c})$ of 50W/kg at 100kHz and 1,000G which is comparable with Co-based amorphous alloys, respectively. It is notable that the values obtained in the present study are the best magnetic properties among various kinds of Fe-based soft amorphous materials reported up to date. The reasons for the achievement of good soft magnetic properties are presumably due to the homogeneous formation of very fine $\alpha$-Fe clusters with the size of 2~3nm in an amorphous matrix, which can be deduced from the increase of resistivity and the TEM observation. The very fine $\alpha$-Fe clusters embedded in an amorphous matrix had a great influence on reduction of magnetostriction and refinement of magnetic domain.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.05b
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• pp.13-16
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• 2000

In this study, we have fabricated nonequilibrium $Fe_{85.6}Zr_{3.3}B_{5.7}Ag_{5.4}$ thin film, which contains an additional insoluble element Ag, by using DC magnetron sputtering method. We have investigated the magnetic properties of amorphous $Fe_{85.6}Zr_{3.3}B_{5.7}Ag_{5.4}$ thin film as a function of rotational field annealing(RFA). After deposition, the amorphous $Fe_{85.6}Zr_{3.3}B_{5.7}Ag_{5.4}$ thin film annealed by rotational field annealing method at $350^{\circ}C$ for an hour was founded to have high permeability of 8680 of 100 MHz, 0.2 mOe, low coercivity of 0.86 De and very low core loss of 1.3 W/cc at 1 MHz, 0.1T.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.488-489
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• 2000

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07b
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• pp.1311-1313
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• 1994

The development of an insulated coating which can be used for amorphous alloys is extremely important from the practical point of view. This importance may be enhanced by the influence of the coating on the magnetic properties. The aim of the study is to show how some coating influence the magnetic properties of $Fe_{87}Zr_7B_5Ag_1(at%)$ amorphous alloy.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.250-255
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• 2000

Double rectangular spiral thin-film inductors were fabricated using $Fe_{86.7}Zr_{3.3}B_{4}Ag_{6}$ thin film with high permeability and resistance, in which easy axis of magnetization of the thin-film was perpendicular or parallel to the current direction. The perpendicular geometry inductor revealed higher inductance than the parallel geometry one, because spin aligns of magnetic film were more easily along the field direction due to higher field intensity in the perpendicular geometry. The increase of the inductance, however, resulted in the decrease of resonance frequency. The permeability was monitored by annealing the thin-films at different temperatures. With increasing the permeability, the inductance increased, but total resistance also increased due to the increase in magnetic core loss. As the resonance frequency was higher in air-core inductor than in magnetic thin-film core inductor, it is suggested to increase the resonance frequency that the characteristic of air-core inductor rather than the magnetic properties of the thin-film should be enhanced..