Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes, in a samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet powder, a main phase containing samarium and iron, and a sub-phase containing samarium, iron, and at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of zirconium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, and titanium, wherein an atomic ratio of a rare earth element to an iron group element is greater than an atomic ratio of the rare earth element to the iron group element of the main phase, wherein at least a part of a surface of the main phase is coated with the sub-phase.

Abstract: A samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet, wherein a samarium oxide phase is formed on at least a part of a surface of a crystal grain, and wherein an atomic ratio of calcium to a total amount of iron group elements, rare earth elements, and calcium is 0.4% or less.

Abstract: A sintered magnet contains Sm—Fe—N-based crystal grains and has high coercivity; and a magnetic powder is capable of forming a sintered magnet without lowering the coercivity even if heat is generated in association with the sintering. A sintered magnet comprises a crystal phase composed of a plurality of Sm—Fe—N-based crystal grains and a nonmagnetic metal phase present between the Sm—Fe—N crystal grains adjacent to each other, wherein a ratio of Fe peak intensity IFe to SmFeN peak intensity ISmFeN measured by an X-ray diffraction method is 0.2 or less. A magnetic powder comprises Sm—Fe—N-based crystal particles and a nonmagnetic metal layer covering surfaces of the Sm—Fe—N crystal particles.

Abstract: A Sm—Fe—N magnet includes Sm—Fe—N particles, wherein an inter-particle metal phase is present between at least two of the Sm—Fe—N particles, an average particle diameter of the Sm—Fe—N particles is less than 2.0 ?m, and a percentage of the Sm—Fe—N particles having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more is 10% or less, the inter-particle metal phase includes a Fe3Zn10 phase and an ?-Fe phase in a particle form, and in the inter-particle metal phase, an area ratio of the Fe3Zn10 phase is 80% or more.

Abstract: A Sm—Fe—N magnet includes Sm—Fe—N particles each having a surface, a coating layer being provided on at least a portion of the surface or on at least a portion of an interface between at least two of the Sm—Fe—N particles, or being provided on both, wherein the coating layer includes a first layer and a second layer, the first layer being situated closer to the surface or the interface than is the second layer, he first layer includes ?-Fe, the second layer includes a Sm—Fe—Zn alloy, and a Zn content contained in the second layer is 1 at % or more and 20 at % or less.

Abstract: A samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder according to one embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a value obtained by dividing the hydrogen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 400 ppm/(m2/g), and a value obtained by dividing the oxygen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 11,000 ppm/(m2/g).

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes single-crystal particles of a TbCu7 type samarium-iron-nitrogen based alloy in an anisotropic magnet powder.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is that in samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet powder, a non-magnetic phase is formed on a surface of the samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet phase, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface is 3.5 nm or less.

Abstract: A single crystal particle powder having a crystal structure of TbCu7-type of the present invention is represented by the general formula: [Chemical Formula 1] (R1-zMz)Tx??(1) or the general formula: [Chemical Formula 2] (R1-zMz)TxNy??(2) and has a crystal structure of TbCu7-type, wherein R is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Sm and Nd, T is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe and Co, x is 7.0?x?10.0, y is 1.0?y?2.0, and z is 0.0?z?0.3.

Abstract: A Sm—Fe—N-based magnet powder that includes a Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material powder, wherein an average particle size of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material powder is not larger than 5 ?m, and a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak of a (220) plane in an X-ray diffraction profile of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material powder is not larger than 0.0033 ?. Also disclosed is a Sm—Fe—N-based sintered magnet that includes a sintered body of a Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material, wherein an average grain size of crystal grains of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material is not larger than 5 ?m, and a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak of a (220) plane in an X-ray diffraction profile of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material is not larger than 0.0033 ?.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes, in a samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet powder, a main phase containing samarium and iron, and a sub-phase containing samarium, iron, and at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of zirconium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, and titanium, wherein an atomic ratio of a rare earth element to an iron group element is greater than an atomic ratio of the rare earth element to the iron group element of the main phase, wherein at least a part of a surface of the main phase is coated with the sub-phase.

Abstract: A raw material for a magnet, which comprises Sm and Fe. A magnet is obtained by nitriding this raw material for a magnet. In particular, a raw material for a magnet comprises an Sm—Fe binary alloy as a main component. An intensity ratio of an Sm2Fe17 (024) peak to an SmFe7 (110) peak is less than 0.001 as measured by an X-ray diffraction method.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is that in samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet powder, a non-magnetic phase is formed on a surface of the samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet phase, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface is 3.5 nm or less.

Abstract: A samarium-iron-bismuth-nitrogen-based magnet powder includes: a main phase including samarium, iron, and bismuth, wherein a ratio of bismuth to a total amount of samarium, iron, and bismuth is less than or equal to 3.0 at %.

Abstract: A samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder according to one embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a value obtained by dividing the hydrogen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 400 ppm/(m2/g), and a value obtained by dividing the oxygen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 11,000 ppm/(m2/g).

Abstract: A sintered magnet contains Sm—Fe—N-based crystal grains and has high coercivity; and a magnetic powder is capable of forming a sintered magnet without lowering the coercivity even if heat is generated in association with the sintering. A sintered magnet comprises a crystal phase composed of a plurality of Sm—Fe—N-based crystal grains and a nonmagnetic metal phase present between the Sm—Fe—N crystal grains adjacent to each other, wherein a ratio of Fe peak intensity IFe to SmFeN peak intensity ISmFeN measured by an X-ray diffraction method is 0.2 or less. A magnetic powder comprises Sm—Fe—N-based crystal particles and a nonmagnetic metal layer covering surfaces of the Sm—Fe—N crystal particles.

Abstract: A raw material for a magnet, which comprises Sm and Fe. A magnet is obtained by nitriding this raw material for a magnet. In particular, a raw material for a magnet comprises an Sm—Fe binary alloy as a main component. An intensity ratio of an Sm2Fe17 (024) peak to an SmFe7 (110) peak is less than 0.001 as measured by an X-ray diffraction method.

Abstract: In a thermoelectric conversion module, each of a p-type element and an n-type element is configured by aligning a plurality of particles in series and connecting the particles to each other. Around a connection part in which the particles are connected to each other, a protrusion is protruded. The protrusion has a shape of continuously extending around the entire periphery of the connection part. The protrusion may be partly interrupted, but in such a case, a circumferential length of one interrupted portion is less than one half of the periphery of the connection part.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion module according to one aspect of embodiments of the present invention as disclosed herein includes a plurality of layered planar bodies. Each of the plurality of layered planar bodies includes a base material having a planar shape, a plurality of p-type granular bodies made of a p-type thermoelectric material, and a plurality of n-type granular bodies made of an n-type thermoelectric material. The plurality of p-type granular bodies and the plurality of n-type granular bodies are held by the base material in such a manner as to be spaced apart from each other in a direction along a face of the base material crossing a layered direction of the plurality of layered planar bodies.

Abstract: In a thermoelectric conversion module, each of a p-type element and an n-type element is configured by aligning a plurality of particles in series and connecting the particles to each other. Around a connection part in which the particles are connected to each other, a protrusion is protruded. The protrusion has a shape of continuously extending around the entire periphery of the connection part. The protrusion may be partly interrupted, but in such a case, a circumferential length of one interrupted portion is less than one half of the periphery of the connection part.