Functionally Graded Magnetic Materials: A Perspective to Advance Charged Particle Optics Through Compositional Engineering

Eric Lang, Zac Milne, Jesse Adamczyk, Erin Barrick, Robert Delaney, Samad Firdosy, Nicholas Ury, R. Peter Dillon, Todd Monson, Andrew Kustas, Katherine Jungjohann, Khalid Hattar

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Abstract

Additive manufacturing has ushered in a new paradigm of bottom-up materials-by-design of spatially non-uniform materials. Functionally graded materials have locally tailored compositions to provide optimized global properties and performance. In this letter, we propose an opportunity for the application of graded magnetic materials as lens elements for charged particle optics. A Hiperco50/Hymu80 (FeCo-2 V/Fe-80Ni-5Mo) graded magnetic alloy was successfully additively manufactured via Laser Directed Energy Deposition with spatially varying magnetic properties. The compositional gradient is then applied using computational simulations to demonstrate how a tailored material can enhance the magnetic performance of a critical, image-forming component of a transmission electron microscope.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)336-345
Number of pages10
JournalMaterials Research Letters
Volume12
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5K00-89610

Keywords

  • additive manufacturing
  • charged particle optics
  • functionally-graded materials
  • graded magnetic materials

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