Materials/Manufacturing

CorePower Magnetics Plans Manufacturing Plant in Pittsburgh, Receives ISO Certification 

CorePower Magnetics, building upon soft magnetics technologies invented at Carnegie Mellon University and the National Energy Technology Laboratory, is planning to establish a plant in Pittsburgh to manufacture its signature nanocrystalline magnetic cores and power […]

Materials/Manufacturing

Aisin Develops Ultrahigh-Efficiency Motor Using Soft Magnetic Alloy from Tohoku Magnet Institute 

Aisin Corporation has developed an ultrahigh-efficiency motor jointly with Tohoku Magnet Institute using TMI’s newly developed nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy, Nanomet. Aisin invested in TMI in June of last year and a prototype of the motor was exhibited at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2023, held recently in Yokohama. Both firms are based in Japan and each contributed their technical capabilities to the development. TMI is an R&D spinout from Tohoku University where the alloy was invented. […]

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Magnetism Does the Twist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists have discovered a strategy for layering dissimilar crystals with atomic precision to control the size of resulting magnetic quasi-particles called skyrmions. The approach could advance high-density data storage and quantum magnets for quantum information science.  The depiction above, by […]

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Schurter EMI Test Circuit Boards for High-inductance Nanocrystalline Cores

Schurter is now offering test circuit boards for its DKIH-1 and DKIH-3 high-current chokes that enable a product designer to easily set up an electromagnetic interference filter circuit for 1- or 3-phase systems. Its new DKIH series has a nanocrystalline ring core which the company says provides eight times […]