FeSiCr soft magnetic composites with significant improvement of high-frequency magnetic properties by compositing nano-YIG ferrite insulating layer

FeSiCr soft magnetic composites (SMCs) with yttrium iron garnet (YIG) coating layer were studied in this work. The YIG with nano size was synthesized by reverse co-precipitation method, which was coated on FeSiCr powders with different YIG contents. The effect of the annealing temperature on the FeSiCr/YIG SMCs was also investigated. It was found that a moderate amount of YIG ferrite could form a thin and uniform layer, resulting in significant optimizations in core loss, permeability, and DC bias characteristics. The results show that the FeSiCr/YIG SMCs with 0.75 wt% YIG exhibit the best magnetic performance (Pcv = 131.34 mW/cm3, μe = 44.5 at 10 mT and 500 kHz). In addition, it was demonstrated that the FeSiCr/YIG SMCs with 0.75 wt% YIG presented the lowest core loss and largest permeability at the optimal annealing temperature of 500 °C. This study provides a new kind of FeSiCr/YIG SMCs which have good prospects to be used in high-frequency fields.