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most citedMicromagnetics of rare-earth efficient permanent magnets

110 citations · 472 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A Community-Developed Domain Ontology for Magnetic Materials

Wilfried Hortschitz, Santa Pile, Claas Fillies +18

Magnetic materials play a crucial role in energy-related technologies, mobility, and sensing, but their complex multiscale behaviour and the coexistence of multiple unit systems po…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Modelling magnetic material properties with uncertainty-aware neural networks

Clemens Wager, Heisam Moustafa, Alexander Kovacs +10

Machine learning is increasingly used to accelerate materials discovery across large compositional and structural design spaces, but limited and heterogeneous data make reliable un…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Tailoring the material properties, nanostructure and grain alignment of Alnico magnets through micromagnetic simulations

Anda Elena Stanciu, Johann Fischbacher, Markus Gusenbauer +9

Alnico magnets have gained renewed interest in the search for rare-earth free permanent magnets due to their high thermal stability and magnetisation. However, the limited coercivi…

physics.comp-ph2025

Graph Neural Networks to Predict Coercivity of Hard Magnetic Microstructures

Heisam Moustafa, Alexander Kovacs, Johann Fischbacher +5

Graph neural networks (GNN) are a promising tool to predict magnetic properties of large multi-grain structures, which can speed up the search for rare-earth free permanent magnets…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Modeling liquid-mediated interactions for close-to-substrate magnetic microparticle transport in dynamic magnetic field landscapes

Markus Gusenbauer, Rico Huhnstock, Alexander Kovacs +3

Understanding the on-chip motion of magnetic particles in a microfluidic environment is key to realizing magnetic particle-based Lab-on-a-chip systems for medical diagnostics. In t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Effect of interface on magnetic exchange coupling in Co/Ru/Co trilayer: from ab-initio simulations to micromagnetics

Sergiu Arapan, Jan Priessnitz, Alexander Kovacs +5

Interfaces play a substantial role for the functional properties of structured magnetic materials and magnetic multilayers. Modeling the functional behavior of magnetic materials r…

physics.comp-ph2024

Physics aware machine learning for micromagnetic energy minimization: recent algorithmic developments

Sebastian Schaffer, Thomas Schrefl, Harald Oezelt +2

In this work, we explore advanced machine learning techniques for minimizing Gibbs free energy in full 3D micromagnetic simulations. Building on Brown's bounds for magnetostatic se…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 1 cited

Description of collective magnetization processes with machine learning models

Alexander Kornell, Lukas Exl, Leoni Breth +11

This work introduces a latent space method to calculate the demagnetization reversal process of multigrain permanent magnets. The algorithm consists of two deep learning models bas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Exploring the hysteresis properties of nanocrystalline permanent magnets using deep learning

Alexander Kovacs, Lukas Exl, Alexander Kornell +11

We demonstrate the use of model order reduction and neural networks for estimating the hysteresis properties of nanocrystalline permanent magnets from microstructure. With a data-d…

physics.comp-ph2021

Full-Spin-Wave-Scaled Finite Element Stochastic Micromagnetism: Mesh-Independent FUSSS LLG Simulations of Ferromagnetic Resonance and Reversal

Harald Oezelt, Luman Qu, Alexander Kovacs +11

In this paper, we address the problem that standard stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (sLLG) simulations typically produce results that show unphysical mesh-size dependence. The r…

cs.LG2021★ 58 cited

Conditional physics informed neural networks

Alexander Kovacs, Lukas Exl, Alexander Kornell +11

We introduce conditional PINNs (physics informed neural networks) for estimating the solution of classes of eigenvalue problems. The concept of PINNs is expanded to learn not only…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 4 cited

Computational Design of the Rare-Earth Reduced Permanent Magnets

A. Kovacs, J. Fischbacher, M. Gusenbauer +6

Multiscale simulation is a key research tool for the quest for new permanent magnets. Starting with first principles methods, a sequence of simulation methods can be applied to cal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 110 cited

Micromagnetics of rare-earth efficient permanent magnets

Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs, Markus Gusenbauer +4

The development of permanent magnets containing less or no rare-earth elements is linked to profound knowledge of the coercivity mechanism. Prerequisites for a promising permanent…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 22 cited

Learning magnetization dynamics

Alexander Kovacs, Johann Fischbacher, Harald Oezelt +5

Deep neural networks are used to model the magnetization dynamics in magnetic thin film elements. The magnetic states of a thin film element can be represented in a low dimensional…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 3 cited

The influence of antiphase boundary of the MnAl -phase on the energy product

S. Arapan, P. Nieves, S. Cuesta-López +6

In this work we use a multiscale approach toward a realistic design of a permanent magnet based on MnAl -phase and elucidate how the antiphase boundary defects present in this m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 15 cited

Magnetic microstructure machine learning analysis

Lukas Exl, Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs +6

We use a machine learning approach to identify the importance of microstructure characteristics in causing magnetization reversal in ideally structured large-grained NdFe$_{14}…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 38 cited

On the limits of coercivity in permanent magnets

J. Fischbacher, A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt +14

The maximum coercivity that can be achieved for a given hard magnetic alloy is estimated by computing the energy barrier for the nucleation of a reversed domain in an idealized mic…

physics.comp-ph2017★ 8 cited

Transition Jitter in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording by Micromagnetic Simulation

Harald Oezelt, Alexander Kovacs, Johann Fischbacher +3

In this paper we apply an extended Landau-Lifschitz equation, as introduced by Baňas et al. for the simulation of heat-assisted magnetic recording. This equation has similarities w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 54 cited

Conjugate gradient methods in micromagnetics

J. Fischbacher, A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt +9

Conjugate gradient methods for energy minimization in micromagnetics are compared. When the step length in the line search is controlled, conjugate gradient techniques are a fast a…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 7 cited

Switching field distribution of exchange coupled ferri-/ferromagnetic composite bit patterned media

Harald Oezelt, Alexander Kovacs, Johann Fischbacher +6

We investigate the switching field distribution and the resulting bit error rate of exchange coupled ferri-/ferromagnetic bilayer island arrays by micromagnetic simulations. Using…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 13 cited

Micromagnetic simulation of exchange coupled ferri-/ferromagnetic composite in bit patterned media

Harald Oezelt, Alexander Kovacs, Phillip Wohlhüter +6

Ferri-/ferromagnetic exchange coupled composites are promising candidates for bit patterned media because of the ability to control the magnetic properties of the ferrimagnet by it…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 51 cited

Thermal activation in permanent magnets

Simon Bance, Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs +3

The coercive field of permanent magnets decays with temperature. At non-zero temperature the system can overcome a finite energy barrier through thermal fluctuations. Using finite…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 73 cited

Influence of defect thickness on the angular dependence of coercivity in rare-earth permanent magnets

Simon Bance, Harald Oezelt, Thomas Schrefl +12

The coercive field and angular dependence of the coercive field of single-grain NdFeB permanent magnets are computed using finite element micromagnetics. It is shown t…

physics.comp-ph2016★ 6 cited

Numerical optimization of writer and media for bit patterned magnetic recording

A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt, M. E. Schabes +1

In this work we present a micromagnetic study of the performance potential of bit-patterned (BP) magnetic recording media via joint optimization of the design of the media and of t…