Alloys with Compositions Co-25.5wt/o Sm-Sw/o Cu-15 w/o Fe-3w/o Zr and Co-Sra-Cu-Fe-1.5 w/o Zr have ibeen step aged to produce magnets with coercive force (iHc) in the range of 10-25k0e, much higher than those reported so far in the litera ture for the Zr alloys. The high coercive force magnet s are typically aged at 800-850°C for 10-30 hours following the solution treatment at 1150°C. Subsequently, these are step aged to produce materials with high coercivity. The microstructure in all these alloys has a 2 phase cellular morphology with 2:17 phase surrounded by a 1:5 boundary phase. The long aging treatments at 800-850°C lead to coarsening of the two phase structure. The subsequent stepaging does not change the morphology, but only changes the chemical composition of th:* two phases.Best properties are obtained in materials with a cohe rent microstructure of optimum boundary phase thickness and optimum chemical composition. The highest values of iHc ob tained so far are % 26k0e and a. 16 kOe for the 3% Zr and 1.52 Zr alloys respectively. The (best hard magnetic properties of (B?0 max = 33 MGOe and iHc = 13k0e are for a 25% Sm-20%Fe-4 Cu-2%Zr alloy.

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We propose some improvements in the form of the eikonal wavefunction and a more rigorous evaluation of the integral for the DWBA amplitude for electron-nucleus scattering as given by Yennie. Our calculations are found to be in closer agreement with the phase-shift results than those of Yennie er al (for e'-Au scattering) and Rosenfelder (for e--Pb scattering based on the eikonal approximation of the T matrix). The improved eikonal method is applied to the study of the isotopic effect in e--Ti scattering. The effect of the addition of a small oscillatory part to the smoothly varying nuclear charge distribution for e--32S scattering at high momentum transfer is also investigated with the help of our eikonal method.

An analytical microscopy characterization was carried out on rapidly quenched Nd-Fe-Zr-B magnets with 9–10 at. % Nd contents. These magnets had a high-energy product (15–17 MGOe). The microstructure of these alloys consisted of two phases where 20–40 nm size Nd2Fe14B grains were surrounded by a 2–20-nm-thick Nd-poor and Fe-rich grain-boundary phase. It is proposed that the Fe-rich boundary phase leads to higher remanence and higher energy products than those found in Nd-Fe-B ternary alloys.

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