The influence of atmosphere on hysteresis loss and eddy current loss of low loss Mn‐Zn ferrites (abstract)

The working frequency of Mn‐Zn ferrites in switching power supply has been increased recently. Therefore, the manufacturing Mn‐Zn ferrites with low loss at high frequency is very important. However, there were few reports concerning the core loss of Mn‐Zn ferrites.¹ It is beneficial to study the parameters affecting the core loss of Mn‐Zn ferrites. Therefore, we studied the influence of atmosphere on the hysteresis loss (W_h) and eddy current loss (W_e) for different compositions in this work. Three compositions, Mn_0.70Zn_0.21−xFe_2.09+xO₄ (x=0, 0.01, 0.02), were prepared by traditional ceramic process. The sintering condition is 1385 °C for 4 h. Then, the samples are annealed at 1100 °C for 24 h in different oxygen partial pressure (0.015–1.0 vol %). Experimental results show that both W_e and W_h have minimum value at different oxygen partial pressure for samples with different composition. Increasing Fe content which raises the Fe⁺⁺ concentration shifts the W_e and W_h minimum point to higher annealing oxygen partial pressure. It is mainly due to the oxidation of Fe⁺⁺ and the transition of conduction mechanism, and it will be further discussed later. We can obtain the lowest core loss for using 10 and 100 kHz are samples with composition x=0 annealed in 0.07 and 0.2 vol % oxygen partial pressure, respectively. Summarily, for application to low loss at different working frequency, it is found that different optimized atmosphere should be controlled during annealing for different composition.