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Loss Breakdown of a Dual Conical Rotor Permanent Magnet Motor Using Grain Oriented Electrical Steel and Soft Magnetic Composites

This paper provides a loss breakdown of the NovaMAX® 215 frame, 1800 rpm motor at 5 kW. Mechanical losses, copper loss, and various types of electromagnetic losses are identified through experiment and simulation. The motor is able to achieve a very high efficiency, up to 96% at some operating points. A comparison with another highly efficient permanent magnet motor illustrates the benefits of the dual rotor axial flux topology, the use of grain oriented electrical steel, and the conical air gap and rotor flux focusing topology together with ferrite magnets. Additionally, a motor with a variable air gap was tested at different air gaps, and its losses are shown. At low speed and high torque, the losses are minimized with relatively small air gaps. However, at higher speeds and lower torques, the optimal air gaps are larger.

Gardner, Matthew C.↗

Mechanical Analysis of the Short Model Magnets for the Nb $_{3}$Sn Low-$\beta$ Quadrupole MQXF

During the development of MQXF, the new Nb 3 Sn quadrupole to be used in the large hadron collider (LHC) inner triplets for the High Luminosity upgrade, three short models were tested: MQXFS1, MQXFS3, and MQXFS5. These models differ in the use of thin or thick laminations for the iron components, in the coil design, and in the superconductive strands, rod restack process (RRP) or powder in tube (PIT). In the MQXF design, the azimuthal prestress is provided at room temperature by means of the bladder-key technology, and it is further increased during the cooldown by the differential thermal contraction of the various components. Four aluminum rods provide the longitudinal prestress. Both systems allow for a flexible control of the amount of prestress applied. As a consequence, it was possible to test the models exploring different azimuthal and longitudinal prestress conditions, in an attempt to understand their impact on the magnet performances. Here, this paper studies the mechanical behavior of these short models, also providing the strain and stresses measured by means of strain gauges installed on the aluminum shell, on the winding poles and on the rods. Finally, the paper compares the measures with the results from finite element (FE) models.

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Ab Initio Study of the Polarization, Electronic, Magnetic, and Optical Properties of Perovskite SrMO{sub 3} (M = Fe, Mn) Crystals and Thin Films Containing Magnetic Ions

The magnetic, electronic, and polarization properties of the SrFeO{sub 3} and SrMnO{sub 3} compounds with a perovskite structure are calculated using the density functional theory in the bulk and thin-film states. A ferroelectric instability is found to be absent in the bulk state, and the polar mode is softened in the thin-film state of SrMnO{sub 3} in the presence of tensile stresses in the substrate. As a result, a polar phase with a polarization of 23 μC/cm{sup 2} appears, which agrees with experimental data. The study of the magnetic and electronic properties demonstrates the existence of G-type antiferromagnetic ordering in SrMnO{sub 3} and the appearance of a dielectric gap of about 1.5 eV in its thin film. A ferromagnetic phase with metallic conduction in both the bulk and thin-film states is detected in SrFeO{sub 3}.

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Magnetostructural phase transitions and large magnetic entropy changes in Ag-doped Mn 1–x Ag x CoGe intermetallic compounds

The influence of Ag-doping on the crystallographic structure, magnetic properties, and magnetocaloric effects of Mn 1–x Ag x CoGe (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 0.10) is reported. A transformation of crystal structure from orthorhombic to hexagonal was observed at room temperature. Doping Ag in Mn sites results in a first-order magnetostructural transition near room temperature. Furthermore, a Curie-temperature window of 90 K was obtained between the Curie temperatures of the austenite (Ni 2 In-type) and martensite (TiNiSi-type) phases. Large magnetic entropy change values of ~22.0 and 9.4 J/kg/K, and refrigerant capacity of 308 and 272 J/kg, were found for x = 0.06 and 0.05, respectively, for μ o ΔH = 5 T.

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Generation of High-Charge Magnetized Electron Beams Consistent With JLEIC Electron Cooling Requirements

The proposed Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider (JLEIC), currently under design, relies on electron cooling in order to achieve the desired luminosity. This includes an electron beam with >55 Mev, 3.2 nC bunches that cools hadron beams with energies up to 100 GeV. To enhance the cooling, the electron beam must be magnetized with a specific eigen-emittance partition. This paper explores the use of the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility to demonstrate the generation of an electron beam with parameters consistent with those required in the JLEIC high-energy cooler. We demonstrate via simulations the generation of the required electron-beam parameters and perform a preliminary experiment to validate FAST capabilities to produce such beams.

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Magnetic Reconnection in Strongly-Magnetized, Weakly-Collisional Plasmas: Onset, Turbulence, and Energy-Partition in 3D, Plasmoid-Dominated Regimes

This project is concerned with theoretical and numerical studies of magnetic reconnection. Key areas of focus are the reconnection onset (how reconnection gets started), energy partition (how the magnetic energy gets distributed during a reconnection event), and the effect of background turbulence on reconnection. We aim to shed light on these issues in kinetic plasmas (i.e., plasmas where the collisional mean free path is long compared to the length-scales of interest), with emphasis on 3D geometries.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗

Magnetically Coupled Broadband Dual Magnetic Mass/Spring Vibrational Energy Harvesting Design

Self-powering sensors and networks are a reality. The ability to extract ambient energy from the surroundings to power electronic devices has a profound impact on the realization of smart adaptable sensor networks. In this study, a magnetically coupled dual spring and magnet design has been investigated to improve the efficiency and performance bandwidth of vibration energy harvesting (VEH) sensors. Using numerical models based on traditional systems of coupled ordinary differential equations (ODE), an optimized design was developed and compared to experimental measurements. Numerical and empirical results show good agreement. Results show improvement in the bandwidth over an equivalent linear system and corresponding improvement in output power conversion efficiency. The increased bandwidth allows improved conversion sensitivity and enhanced power harvesting capabilities. This operational bandwidth coincides with the expected input spectrum for in situ applications.

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Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Polymorphism, and Magnetism of Eu(CN3H4)2 and First Evidence of EuC(NH)3

We report the first magnetically coupled guanidinate, α-Eu(CN3H4)2 (monoclinic, P21, a = 5.8494(3) Å, b = 14.0007(8) Å, c = 8.4887(4) Å, β = 91.075(6)°, V = 695.07(6) Å3, Z = 4). Its synthesis, polymorphism, crystal structure, and properties are complemented and supported by density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. The α-, β- and γ-polymorphs of Eu(CN3H4)2 differ in powder XRD, while the γ-phase transforms into the β-form over time. In α-Eu(CN3H4)2, Eu is octahedrally coordinated and sits in one-dimensional chains; the guanidinate anions show a hydrogen-bonding network. The different guanidinate anions are theoretically predicted to adopt syn-, anti- and all-trans-conformations. Magnetic measurements evidence ferromagnetic interactions, presumably along the Eu chains. Finally, EuC(NH)3 (isostructural to SrC(NH)3 and YbC(NH)3, hexagonal, P63/m, a = 5.1634(7) Å, c = 7.1993(9) Å, V = 166.23(4) Å3, Z = 2) is introduced as a possible ferromagnet.

Görne, Arno↗

Magnetized Winds of M-type Stars and Star–Planet Magnetic Interactions: Uncertainties and Modeling Strategy

M-type stars are the most common stars in the Universe. They are ideal hosts for the search of exoplanets in the habitable zone (HZ), as their small size and low temperature make the HZ much closer-in than their solar twins. Harboring very deep convective layers, they also usually exhibit very intense magnetic fields. Understanding their environment, in particular their coronal and wind properties, is thus very important, as they might be very different from what is observed in the solar system. The mass-loss rate of M-type stars is poorly known observationally, and recent attempts to estimate it for some of them (e.g., TRAPPIST-1 and Proxima Centauri) can vary by an order of magnitude. In this work, we revisit the stellar wind properties of M dwarfs in the light of the latest estimates of $\dot{M}$ through Lyα absorption at the astropause and slingshot prominences. We outline a modeling strategy to estimate the mass-loss rate, radiative loss, and wind speed, with uncertainties, based on an Alfvén-wave-driven stellar wind model. We find that it is very likely that several TRAPPIST-1 planets lie within the Alfvén surface, which implies that these planets experience star–planet magnetic interactions (SPMIs). We also find that SPMIs between Proxima Cen b and its host star could be the reason for recently observed radio emissions.

M stars↗

Insertion Magnets

Chapter 3 in High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) : Preliminary Design Report. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the largest scientific instruments ever built. Since opening up a new energy frontier for exploration in 2010, it has gathered a global user community of about 7,000 scientists working in fundamental particle physics and the physics of hadronic matter at extreme temperature and density. To sustain and extend its discovery potential, the LHC will need a major upgrade in the 2020s. This will increase its luminosity (rate of collisions) by a factor of five beyond the original design value and the integrated luminosity (total collisions created) by a factor ten. The LHC is already a highly complex and exquisitely optimised machine so this upgrade must be carefully conceived and will require about ten years to implement. The new configuration, known as High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), will rely on a number of key innovations that push accelerator technology beyond its present limits. Among these are cutting-edge 11-12 tesla superconducting magnets, compact superconducting cavities for beam rotation with ultra-precise phase control, new technology and physical processes for beam collimation and 300 metre-long high-power superconducting links with negligible energy dissipation. The present document describes the technologies and components that will be used to realise the project and is intended to serve as the basis for the detailed engineering design of HL-LHC.

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Characterization of magnetic field lines in connection with the transport of field lines in Beltrami magnetic fields

Single and double curl Beltrami magnetic fields are studied numerically in connection with their transport properties and the results are compared and analyzed by characterizing the magnetic field lines. In the phase space of single curl Beltrami field, islands of regular field lines are embedded into the chaotic sea. Whereas the field lines for certain solutions of double curl Beltrami field are chaotic over the entire space. Due to the presence of regular islands in phase space, the chaotic trajectories show stickiness phenomena which is characterized by the distribution of a chaotic field line. The dynamical traps in chaotic orbits due to stickiness phenomena are also characterized by the distribution of finite distance Lyapunov exponents. Finally recurrence time distribution of chaotic trajectories is plotted to understand their global behaviour.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗

Rotating-frame gradient fields for magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance in low fields

A system and method for Fourier encoding a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal is disclosed. A static magnetic field B.sub.0 is provided along a first direction. An NMR signal from the sample is Fourier encoded by applying a rotating-frame gradient field B.sub.G superimposed on the B.sub.0, where the B.sub.G comprises a vector component rotating in a plane perpendicular to the first direction at an angular frequency .omega.in a laboratory frame. The Fourier-encoded NMR signal is detected.

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Polarimetry-Interferometry Diagnostic for Magnetic Field and Magnetic Fluctuation Measurements in High-Performance and Long-Pulse Tokamaks (Final Report)

In this grant, we executed a multi-year plan to develop an advanced Faraday-effect polarimeter-interferometer system to address both fluctuation and equilibrium diagnostic needs by providing a measurement of the plasma internal magnetic field fluctuations (including non-axisymmetric 3-D perturbations) and plasma vertical position. This diagnostic included both fast time response and low phase noise so that both the temporal dynamics of equilibrium quantities as well as high-frequency electromagnetic fluctuations could be measured simultaneously, adding new and unique measurement capabilities for the core of high-temperature plasmas. The combined polarimeter-interferometer diagnostic development was applied primarily to the tokamak magnetic configuration, focusing on high-performance regimes including H-mode, reversed shear advanced tokamak scenarios, and non-inductive current drive.

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Optical sensing of magnetic fields using magnetically sensitive materials

The invention provides a method for measuring the magnetic field of an electromagnetic component having the steps of: instrumenting one or more portions of an electromagnetic component by placing an optical fiber in electromagnetic communication with the one or more portions of said electromagnetic component; energizing the electromagnetic component; interrogating the optical fiber using light and an optical detector; and determining changes in the magnetic field incident on the optical fiber based on the detected changes in the light received by the optical detector.

Ohodnicki, Paul↗

Spin current formation at the graphene/Pt interface for magnetization manipulation in magnetic nanodots

Spin electronic structure of the Graphene/Pt interface has been investigated. A large induced spin-orbit splitting (∼80 meV) of graphene π states with formation of non-degenerated Dirac-cone spin states at the K{sup ¯}-point of the Brillouin zone crossed with spin-polarized Pt 5d states at Fermi level was found. We show that this spin structure can be used as a spin current source in spintronic devices. By theoretical estimations and micromagnetic modeling based on the experimentally observed spin-orbit splitting, we demonstarte that the induced intrinsic magnetic field in such structure might be effectively used for induced remagnetization of the (Ni-Fe)-nanodots arranged atop the interface.

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