Abstract: This ferrite magnet has a magnetoplumbite structure and is characterized in that, when representing the composition ratios of the total of each metal element A, R, Fe and Me with expression (1) A1-xRx(Fe12-yMey)z, the Fe2+ content (m) in the ferrite magnet is greater than 0.1 mass % and less than 5.4 mass % (in expression (1), A is at least one element selected from Sr, Ba, Ca and Pb; R is at least one element selected from the rare-earth elements (including Y) and Bi, and includes at least La, and Me is Co, or Co and Zn). The invention makes it possible to achieve a ferrite magnet with increased Br.

Abstract: A core-shell particle includes: a core including an iron oxyhydroxide compound represented by Formula A3a3Fe1?a3OOH (in which A3 represents at least one metal element other than Fe, and a3 satisfies 0<a3<1) or at least one iron oxide compound selected from the group consisting of Fe2O3, a compound represented by Formula A1a1Fe2?a1O3 (in which A1 represents at least one metal element other than Fe, and a1 satisfies 0<a1<2), Fe3O4, and a compound represented by Formula A2a2Fe3?a2O4 (in which A2 represents at least one metal element other than Fe, and a2 satisfies 0<a2<2); and a shell which covers the core and includes a polycondensate of a metal alkoxide.

Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder having an average particle size of 9.0 nm to 20.0 nm, and in the ?-iron oxide powder, a content of particles having a particle size smaller than 8.0 nm is less than 20.0% by mass, a content of particles having a particle size smaller than 6.0 nm is less than 5.0% by mass, and a content of particles having a particle size greater than 25.0 nm is less than 20.0% by mass.

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of synthetic garnet materials for use in radiofrequency applications. In some embodiments, increased amounts of gadolinium can be added into specific sites in the crystal structure of the synthetic garnet by incorporating indium, a trivalent element. By including both indium and increased amounts of gadolinium, the dielectric constant can be improved. Thus, embodiments of the disclosed material can be advantageous in both above and below resonance applications, such as for isolators and circulators.

Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet represented by the general formula of Ca1-xLaxFe2n-y-zCoyZnz expressing the atomic ratios of metal elements of Ca, La, Fe, Co and Zn, wherein x, y, z, and n [2n is a molar ratio represented by 2n=(Fe+Co+Zn)/(Ca+La)] meet 0.4<x<0.75, 0.15?y<0.4, 0.11?z<0.4, 0.26?(y+z)<0.65, and 3?n?6.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic powder having a narrow particle size distribution of epsilon-type iron oxide particles, and another object is to provide magnetic powder suitable for magnetic recording medium by improving particle size distribution, and provide epsilon-type iron oxide magnetic particles and related technologies in which a number average particle diameter of major diameters (D50) is 10 to 20 nm, a 90% cumulative particle diameter (D90) is 30 nm or less, and a geometric standard deviation (?g) of major diameters is 1.45 or less, which are obtained by TEM observation.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a body made of an insulator, a coating film covering the body, a conductor located in the body, and outer electrodes each of which is connected to the conductor. The insulator contains a magnetic metal powder. The coating film is composed of resin and cations of a metal which is a cationic element contained in the insulator and which has a standard electrode potential E0 of less than about 0 V.

Abstract: The present invention produces a ferrite magnetic material having a remarkably higher maximum energy product ((BH)max) than a conventional ferrite magnetic material through the induction of a high saturation magnetization and a high anisotropic magnetic field by simultaneously adding Co and Zn to substitute some of Fe and adjusting the content ratio of Zn/Co. In addition, the present invention can produce a desired magnetic material at a lower cost than a conventional CaLaCo-based ferrite magnetic material substituted with only Co by using Zn, which is relatively at least seven times cheaper than Co, together with Co.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ferrite sintered plate having a composition comprising 47 to 50 mol % of Fe2O3, 7 to 26 mol % of NiO, 13 to 36 mol % of ZnO, 7 to 12 mol % of CuO and 0 to 1.5 mol % of CoO, as calculated in terms of the respective oxides, in which the ferrite sintered plate has a volume resistivity of 1×108 to 1×1012·cm and a thickness of 10 to 60 ?m; and a ferrite sintered sheet comprising the ferrite sintered plate on a surface of which a groove or grooves are formed, and an adhesive layer and/or a protective layer formed on the ferrite sintered plate, in which the ferrite sintered sheet has a magnetic permeability at 500 kHz a real part of which is 120 to 800 and an imaginary part of which is 0 to 30, and a product (?m) of the real part of the magnetic permeability at 500 kHz of the ferrite sintered sheet and a thickness of the ferrite sintered plate is 5000 to 48000.

Abstract: A method of synthesizing a radiolabeled nanoparticle. The method includes heating a solution including an iron oxide nanoparticle and at least one radioactive metal ion to bind the iron oxide nanoparticle and the at least one radioactive metal ion, thereby forming the radiolabeled nanoparticle. The method further includes adding a quenching agent to the solution to complex with non-bound radioactive metal ions remaining in the solution. The method further includes separating the complexed quenching agent from the radiolabeled nanoparticle.

Abstract: A ferrite magnetic material comprising a primary phase of a magnetoplumbite-type hexagonal ferrite, the primary phase having a composition represented by formula (I), can provide improved magnetic properties in terms of the residual magnetic flux density (Br), intrinsic coercive force (iHc), squareness (Hk/iHc), and maximum energy product (B.Hmax). Therefore, a segment-type permanent magnet derived therefrom can be used in the manufacture of small type motors for automobiles, motors for electric equipments as well as for home appliances, and other devices.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rare earth based magnet including R2T14B main-phase crystal grains, and two-grain boundary phases between adjacent two R2T14B main-phase crystal grains, the two-grain boundary phases are controlled such that the thickness thereof is 5 nm or more and 500 nm or less, and it is composed of a phase with a magnetism different from that of a ferromagnet.

Abstract: Iron garnet nanoparticles and or iron garnet particles containing various activatable nuclides, such as holmium-165 (165Ho) and dysprosium-164 (164Dy), are disclosed in this application. The iron garnet (e.g., HoIG and DyIG) nanoparticles and iron garnet particles can prepared using hydroxide co-precipitation methods. In some embodiments, radiosensitizers can be loaded on radioactive magnetic nanoparticles or radioactive iron garnet particles and, optionally, coated with suitable lipid bilayers. Methods of using the disclosed nanoparticles and particles for mediating therapeutic benefit in diseases responsive to radiation therapy are also provided. Another aspect of the invention provides films, electrospun fabrics or bandage coverings for the delivery of radiation to the site of a skin lesion amenable to treatment with radiation (e.g., skin cancers or psoriasis).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ferrite material that is excellent in temperature characteristic and DC superimposition characteristic. The present invention relates to Ni—Zn—Cu-based ferrite particles comprising 70 to 95% by weight of an Ni—Zn—Cu ferrite having a specific composition, 1 to 20% by weight of nickel oxide, 0 to 20% by weight of zinc oxide and 1 to 10% by weight of copper oxide, and a ferrite sintered ceramics obtained by sintering the ferrite particles.

Abstract: Provided are a titanium dioxide-coated upconverting nanoparticle (UCNP) and a photocatalyst complex containing a gold nanorod (GNR) combined with the titanium dioxide-coated UCNP.

Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet comprises a main phase of an M type Sr ferrite having a hexagonal crystal structure. An amount of Zn is 0.05 to 1.35 mass % in terms of ZnO and M1/M2 is 0.43 or less when an amount of a rare-earth element (R) is M1 in terms of mol and the amount of Zn is M2 in terms of mol.

Abstract: This application relates to devices in which magnets are arranged so that an intensity of a magnetic field emitted by the magnets is substantially the same at a position of interest for at least two discrete positions of the magnets. The application describes how this can be achieved even when the discrete positions are different distances from the position of interest by identifying locations at which magnetic material can be added to balance the field intensity for both discrete locations. In some embodiments, this type of configuration can be helpful in accommodating movement of magnets between two common positions. When the magnetic field intensity for the position of interest is set near zero a magnetically sensitive component can be positioned at the point of interest with little or no effect from the magnetic field when the magnets are in any of the discrete positions.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of modifying synthetic garnets used in RF applications to reduce or eliminate Yttrium or other rare earth metals in the garnets without adversely affecting the magnetic properties of the material. Some embodiments include substituting Bismuth for some of the Yttrium on the dodecahedral sites and introducing one or more high valency ions to the octahedral and tetrahedral sites. Calcium may also be added to the dodecahedral sites for valency compensation induced by the high valency ions, which could effectively displace all or most of the Yttrium (Y) in microwave device garnets. The modified synthetic garnets with substituted Yttrium (Y) can be used in various microwave magnetic devices such as circulators, isolators and resonators.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles are magnetic particles for magnetic recording, and includes subjecting starting material magnetic particles to glass component-adhering treatment to be adhered with a glass component, and subjecting the magnetic particles after the glass component-adhering treatment to coercive force-reducing treatment with heating, to provide magnetic particles having lower coercive force than the starting material magnetic particles.

Abstract: Disclosed are a multilayered power inductor, including: a body in which a plurality of magnetic layers formed with inner electrodes are stacked; and a plurality of gap layers, wherein the plurality of gap layers are formed so as not to contact external electrodes formed at both sides of the body, and a gap composition of the multilayered power inductor. In addition, as the gap composition, the exemplary embodiment of present invention can prepare tetravalent or tetravalent dielectric oxide into the paste type and applies the gap layer structure thereto, thereby facilitating the structural design and the thickness control of the gap layer as compared with the case of forming the gap layer in the sheet shape of the related art and improving the DC-bias characteristics by maximally suppressing the diffusion with the body.

Abstract: To provide a method for improving a coercive force of epsilon-type iron oxide particles, and an epsilon-type iron oxide. Specifically, to provide a method for improving the coercive force of an epsilon-type iron oxide comprising: substituting Fe-site of the epsilon-type iron oxide with other element, while not substituting Fe of D-site in the epsilon-type iron oxide with other element, and the epsilon type iron oxide.

Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet having a main phase composed of ferrite having a hexagonal, M-type magnetoplumbite structure, a grain boundary phase containing Si and Ca with a lower atomic ratio of La than in said main phase, and a third phase containing La at a higher atomic ratio than in said main phase, and a method for producing a sintered ferrite magnet having said third phase by calcining starting materials with more La than Ca, adding more than 1% and 1.8% or less by mass of SiO2 and 1-2% by mass (calculated as CaO) of CaCO3 to the calcined body, and pulverizing, molding and sintering it.

Abstract: Disclosed are synthetic garnets and related devices that can be used in radio-frequency (RF) applications. In some embodiments, such RF devices can include garnets having reduced or substantially nil Yttrium or other rare earth metals. Such garnets can be configured to yield high dielectric constants, and ferrite devices, such as TM-mode circulators/isolators, formed from such garnets can benefit from reduced dimensions. Further, reduced or nil rare earth content of such garnets can allow cost-effective fabrication of ferrite-based RF devices. In some embodiments, such ferrite devices can include other desirable properties such as low magnetic resonance linewidths. Examples of fabrication methods and RF-related properties are also disclosed.

Abstract: Materials, devices and methods related to below-resonance radio-frequency (RF) circulators and isolators. In some embodiments, a circulator can include a conductor having a plurality of signal ports, and one or more magnets configured to provide a magnetic field. The circulator can further include one or more ferrite disks implemented relative to the conductor and the one or more magnets so that an RF signal can be routed selectively among the signal ports due to the magnetic field. Each of the one or more ferrite disks can include synthetic garnet material having dodecahedral sites, octahedral sites and tetrahedral sites, with bismuth (Bi) occupying at least some of the dodecahedral sites, and aluminum (Al) occupying at least some of the tetrahedral sites. Such synthetic garnet material can be represented by a formula Y3-x-2y?zBixCa2y+zFe5-y-z-aVyZrzAlaO12. In some embodiments, x?1.4, y?0.7, z?0.7, and a?0.75.

Abstract: A capsule having a solid core, a primary shell of liquid encapsulating the solid core and a secondary shell of particles encapsulating the primary shell. The primary and secondary shells are generally repulsive to each other. Also provided is a process for the manufacture of capsules and a process for the manufacture of a magnetic body.

Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet having a ferrite phase with a hexagonal structure as the main phase, wherein the composition of the metal elements composing the main phase is represented by the following general formula (1): RxCamA1?x?m(Fe12?yMy)z: ??(1), x, m, y and z in formula (1) satisfying all of the conditions represented by the following formulas (2)-(6): 0.2?x?0.5: ??(2) 0.13?m?0.41: ??(3) 0.7x?m?0.15: ??(4) 0.18?yz?0.31: ??(5) 9.6?12z?11.8: ??(6), and wherein the density of the sintered ferrite magnet is at least 5.05 g/cm3, and the crystal grains of the sintered ferrite magnet satisfy all of the conditions represented by the following formulas (7) and (8), where L ?m is the average for the maximum value and S ?m is the average for the minimum value among the diameters passing through the center of gravity of each grains in the crystal cross-section parallel to the c-axis direction of hexagonal structures. L?0.95: ??(7) 1.8?L/S?2.5: ??(8).

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a magnetic catalyst for wet oxidation of organic waste and the preparation method thereof. According to the present invention, after the raw materials are dissolved and mixed in water, the pH value is adjusted for producing precipitates. Then after heating, filtering, drying, grinding, sifting, and calcinations are performed, the given magnetic catalyst can be reused without losing its activity. In addition, during treating organic waste by using wet oxidation method, no secondary waste is produced. Besides, the magnetic catalyst can be recycled by magnetic devices, making it excellent in terms of performance and convenience.

Abstract: A magnetic material of an embodiment includes: first magnetic particles that contain at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co, and Ni, are 1 ?m or greater in particle size, and are 5 to 50 ?m in average particle size; second magnetic particles that contain at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co, and Ni, are smaller than 1 ?m in particle size, and are 5 to 50 nm in average particle size; and an intermediate phase that exists between the first magnetic particles and the second magnetic particles.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ferrite magnetic material which can provide a permanent magnet retaining high Br and HcJ as well as having high Hk/HcJ. The ferrite magnetic material according to a preferred embodiment is a ferrite magnetic material formed of hard ferrite, wherein a P content in terms of P2O5 is 0.001% by mass or more.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide, in order to deal with a high frequency band in which radio waves are expected to be increasingly used hereafter, a magnetoplumbite-type hexagonal ferrite material having significantly improved high-frequency property of magnetic permeability. Specifically, a magnetoplumbite-type hexagonal ferrite is represented by a composition formula: A(1-X)BxCx(D1yD2y)Fe(12-x-2y)O19 (where x: 0.1 to 0.3, y:0.1 to 0.5), wherein A is any one of Ba2+, Sr2+ and Ca2+, B is any one of La3+ and Nd3+, C and D1 are any one or more of Co2+, Mn2+, Mg2+, Zn2+, Cu2+ and Ni2+, and D2 is any one of Ti4+ and Zr4+.

Abstract: The invention relates to a modified strontium ferrite of the general chemical formula: Sr1-xLaxFe12-yCoyO19; in which x=y=0.01-1.00 or x=0.15 and y=x/1.6n to =x/2.6n, where n is the Fe2O3:SrO ratio used and may be 5-6. According to the invention, lanthanum and cobalt are added in an amount such that 0.14?x?0.145 and 0.14?y?0.145. The modified strontium ferrite thus prepared has excellent magnetic properties with regard to the remanence BR, the coercive force HCJ and the ratio of HK to HCJ.

Abstract: A process for mechanically strengthening a permanent magnet includes providing nanofibers or nanotubes, providing a ferromagnetic metal, defining a mixture by mixing the ferromagnetic metal with the nanofibers or nanotubes and sintering the mixture.

Abstract: A hexagonal crystal ferrite magnetic powder having high magnetic characteristics while having a small particle volume and a high specific surface area is provided, and a high-density magnetic recording medium using the powder. A method for producing a hexagonal crystal ferrite formed using a glass crystallization method includes the steps of: mixing a glass matrix with raw materials including iron, bismuth, a divalent metal (M1), a tetravalent metal (M2), any one kind (A) of barium, strontium, calcium, and lead, and at least one kind of rare earth element (represented by R) having a mole equal to or less than that of the iron; heating the mixed raw material to obtain a glass body; quenching the glass body, pulverizing the glass body, and performing a heat treatment, and washing the glass body after the heat treatment with an acid solution.

Abstract: A magnetic refrigeration material includes: at least one selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm and Tb by a range of 4 to 15 atomic percentages; at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Mn and Cr by a range of 60 to 93 atomic percentages; at least one selected from the group consisting of Si, C, Ge, Al, Ga and In by a range of 2.9 to 23.5 atomic percentages; and at least one selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb and W by a range of 1.5 atomic percentages or less, wherein the magnetic refrigeration material includes a NaZn13 type crystal structure as a main phase.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of modifying synthetic garnets used in RF applications to reduce or eliminate Yttrium or other rare earth metals in the garnets without adversely affecting the magnetic properties of the material. Some embodiments include substituting Bismuth for some of the Yttrium on the dodecahedral sites and introducing one or more high valency ions to the octahedral and tetrahedral sites. Calcium may also be added to the dodecahedral sites for valency compensation induced by the high valency ions, which could effectively displace all or most of the Yttrium (Y) in microwave device garnets. The modified synthetic garnets with substituted Yttrium (Y) can be used in various microwave magnetic devices such as circulators, isolators and resonators.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of modifying synthetic garnets used in RF applications to reduce or eliminate Yttrium or other rare earth metals in the garnets without adversely affecting the magnetic properties of the material. Some embodiments include substituting Bismuth for some of the Yttrium on the dodecahedral sites and introducing one or more high valency ions to the octahedral and tetrahedral sites. Calcium may also be added to the dodecahedral sites for valency compensation induced by the high valency ions, which could effectively displace all or most of the Yttrium (Y) in microwave device garnets. The modified synthetic garnets with substituted Yttrium (Y) can be used in various microwave magnetic devices such as circulators, isolators and resonators.

Abstract: A ferrite magnet and a ferrite sintered magnet including a ferrite magnetic material are provided. A main phase of the ferrite magnetic material includes a ferrite phase having a hexagonal crystal structure, and metal element composition expressed by Ca1-w-x-yR wSr xBayFezMm wherein 0.25<w<0.5, 0.01<x<0.35, 0.0001<y<0.013, y<x, 8.7<z<9.9, 1.0<w/m<2.1, 0.017<m/z<0.055 and Si component is at least included as a sub-component, and wherein; when content y1 mass % of the Si component in the ferrite magnetic material, with respect to SiO2, is shown on Y-axis and a total content x1 of z and m is shown on X-axis, a relation between x1 and y1 is within a range surrounded by 4 points placed on X-Y coordinate having the X and Y axes.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a nickel-zinc-copper (NiZnCu) based ferrite composition containing 0.001 to 0.3 parts by weight of bivalent metal, 0.001 to 0.3 parts by weight of trivalent metal, and 0.001 to 0.5 parts by weight of tetravalent metal based on 100 parts by weight of main component containing 47.0 to 50.0 mol % of Fe2O3, 15.0 to 27.0 mol % of NiO, 18.0 to 25.0 mol % of ZnO, and 7.0 to 13.0 mol % of CuO, and a multilayered chip device and a toroidal core using the same. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a bivalent metal, a trivalent metal, and a tetravalent are contained in a NiZuCu ferrite, thereby making it possible to provide a ferrite composition having excellent quality factor (Q) characteristics. Moreover, it is possible to provide a toroidal core and a multilayered chip device having excellent sinterability, permittivity, and quality factor (Q) characteristics using the ferrite composition.

Abstract: Provided are new compositions of ruthenates in the pervoskite and layered pervoskite family, wherein the ruthenate compositions exhibit large magnetoresistance (MR) and electric-pulse-induced resistance (EPIR) switching effects, the latter observable at room temperature. This is the first time large MR and EPIR effects have been shown together in ruthenate compositions. Further provided are methods for synthesizing the class of ruthenates that exhibits such properties, as well as methods of use therefor in electromagnetic devices, thin films, sensors, semiconductors, insulators and the like.

Abstract: A ferrite magnetic material comprising a primary phase of a magnetoplumbite-type hexagonal ferrite, the primary phase having a composition represented by formula (I), can provide improved magnetic properties in terms of the residual magnetic flux density (Br), intrinsic coercive force (iHc), squareness (Hk/iHc), and maximum energy product (B.Hmax). Therefore, a segment-type permanent magnet derived therefrom can be used in the manufacture of small type motors for automobiles, motors for electric equipments as well as for home appliances, and other devices.

Abstract: Disclosed are an R—Fe—B sintered magnet and a method for producing the same. More specifically, provided is an R—Fe—B (R=Nd, Dy, Pr, Tb, Ho, La, Ce, Sm, Gd, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu or Th) sintered magnet having a structure in which R2Fe14B crystal grains as major phases are surrounded with R-rich phases, wherein a dihedral angle between two adjacent R2Fe14B crystal grains and the R-rich phase contacting the R2Fe14B crystal grains is 70° or less in a triple junction formed by the R2Fe14B crystal grains. The sintered magnet maintains a high coercive force and exhibits improved mechanical properties and is thus applicable to motors or permanent magnets used at high temperatures.

Abstract: A method of preparing a dispersion of stabilized iron oxide nanoparticles that comprise cores and coatings on the cores, which comprise zwitterionic functional groups chemically bound to the cores, using a single solution that comprises dissolved iron ions and a zwitterion silane and/or a hydrolyzed product of the zwitterion silane.

Abstract: A new magnetic substance having a high magnetic permeability and a low magnetic permeability loss over a wide frequency bandwidth, a composite material for antennas using the new magnetic substance and a polymer, and an antenna using the composite material for antennas.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic material having high Hc and High Curie point, which is capable of controlling such magnetic characteristics without requiring rare or expensive raw materials. Specifically disclosed is a magnetic material composed of particles of a magnetic iron oxide which is represented by the following general formula: ?-AxByFe2?x?yO3 or ?-AxByCzFe2?x?y?zO3 (wherein A, B and C each represents a metal excluding Fe and different from each other, satisfying 0<x, y, z<1), with ?-Fe2O3 as a main phase.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a nickel-zinc-copper (NiZnCu) based ferrite composition containing 0.001 to 0.3 parts by weight of bivalent metal, 0.001 to 0.3 parts by weight of trivalent metal, and 0.001 to 0.5 parts by weight of tetravalent metal based on 100 parts by weight of main component containing 47.0 to 50.0 mol % of Fe2O3, 15.0 to 27.0 mol % of NiO, 18.0 to 25.0 mol % of ZnO, and 7.0 to 13.0 mol % of CuO, and a multilayered chip device and a toroidal core using the same. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a bivalent metal, a trivalent metal, and a tetravalent are contained in a NiZuCu ferrite, thereby making it possible to provide a ferrite composition having excellent quality factor (Q) characteristics. Moreover, it is possible to provide a toroidal core and a multilayered chip device having excellent sinterability, permittivity, and quality factor (Q) characteristics using the ferrite composition.

Abstract: Disclosed are synthetic garnets and related devices that can be used in radio-frequency (RF) applications. In some embodiments, such RF devices can include garnets having reduced or substantially nil Yttrium or other rare earth metals. Such garnets can be configured to yield high dielectric constants, and ferrite devices, such as TM-mode circulators/isolators, formed from such garnets can benefit from reduced dimensions. Further, reduced or nil rare earth content of such garnets can allow cost-effective fabrication of ferrite-based RF devices. In some embodiments, such ferrite devices can include other desirable properties such as low magnetic resonance linewidths. Examples of fabrication methods and RF-related properties are also disclosed.

Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet comprising a first granular ferrite compound phase containing Ca, La, Fe and Co and having a Curie temperature Tc1 between 415° C. and 430° C., and a second granular ferrite compound phase containing Sr, La, Fe and Co and having a Curie temperature Tc2 between 437° C. and 455° C., the volume ratio of the first ferrite compound phase being 50-90%, and the volume ratio of the second ferrite compound phase being 10-50%, with their total volume ratio being 95% or more.

Abstract: [Problem] When a nonreciprocal device operating at 100 GHz to 300 GHz is to be realized by using a conventional magnetic material of garnet-type ferrite or spinel-type ferrite, a huge permanent magnet is required and, therefore, it is very difficult to achieve a millimeter-wave band nonreciprocal device for practical use. [Solving means] To solve this problem, there is provided a millimeter-wave band nonreciprocal device composed of a magnetic material represented by a formula ?-MxFe2-xO3 (0<x<2), wherein M is at least one of elements In, Ga, Al, Sc, Cr, Sm, Yb, Ce, Ru, Rh, Ti, Co, Ni, Mn, Zn, Zr, and Y and the magnetic material having ?-phase hematite as a principal phase exhibits strong coercive force and anisotropic magnetic field at room temperature. Dimensions of a magnetic circuit containing a permanent magnet for operations of the nonreciprocal device can be made remarkably small and, by optimum design, the use of the magnetic circuit can be made unnecessary.

Abstract: A rotating machine comprising a sintered ferrite magnet having an M-type ferrite structure, comprising Ca, an R element that is at least one of rare earth elements and indispensably includes La, Ba, Fe and Co as indispensable elements, and having a composition represented by the formula: Ca1-x-yRxBayFe2n-zCoz, wherein (1?x?y), x, y, z and n represent the contents of Ca, the R element, Ba and Co, and a molar ratio, meeting 0.3?1?x?y?0.65, 0.2?x?0.65, 0.001?y?0.2, 0.03?z?0.65, 4?n?7, and 1?x?y>y; a bonded magnet comprising ferrite powder having the above composition and a binder, and a magnet roll, at least one magnetic pole portion of which is made of the above bonded magnet.

Abstract: A magnetic fluid composition include a suspension of nano-particles including cross-crystallized multi-metal compounds dispersed in a solvent, the cross-crystallized multi-metal compounds including at least two or more metals having different valencies or oxidation states, the metals selected from the group consisting of a monovalent metal (Me+), a divalent metal (Me2+), a trivalent metal (Me3+), a quadrivalent metal (Me4+) and a rare earth metal. The magnetic fluid having a viscosity and surface tension that permits dispensing from an inkjet printer at a rate of at least 2.5 m/s, at a resolution of at least 600 dpi, supporting jetting pulse frequencies of at least 15 KHz per nozzle (enabling high speed inkjet printing applications of at least 0.6 m/sec per individual nozzle row per print head), and enabling uninterrupted, industrial level print output of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) code lines suitable for high speed magnetic data scanning per established industry regulations (ANSI X9).