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most citedMicromagnetics of rare-earth efficient permanent magnets

110 citations · 582 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

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…

cond-mat.other2022★ 3 cited

FORC Diagram Features of Co Particles due to Reversal by Domain Nucleation

Leoni Breth, Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs +7

First Order Reversal Curve (FORC) diagrams are a popular tool in geophysics and materials science for the characterization of magnetic particles of natural and synthetic origin. Ho…

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 73 cited

Magnetostatics and micromagnetics with physics informed neural networks

Alexander Kovacs, Lukas Exl, Alexander Kornell +8

Partial differential equations and variational problems can be solved with physics informed neural networks (PINNs). The unknown field is approximated with neural networks. Minimiz…

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…

physics.app-ph2020

Microstructure Role in Permanent Magnet Eddy Current Losses

Salvatore Perna, Thomas Schrefl, Claudio Serpico +2

The impact of granular microstructure in permanent magnets on eddy current losses are investigated. A numerical homogenization procedure for electrical conductivity is defined. The…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 36 cited

Extracting local switching fields in permanent magnets using machine learning

Markus Gusenbauer, Harald Oezelt, Johann Fischbacher +4

Microstructural features play an important role for the quality of permanent magnets. The coercivity is greatly influenced by crystallographic defects, which is well known for MnAl…

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-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-sci2018★ 12 cited

Probability distribution of substituted Titanium in RT12 (R = Nd, Sm, T = Fe, Co) structures

Connor Skelland, Thomas Ostler, Samuel Westland +11

We investigated the atomic fill site probability distributions across supercell structures of RT12-xTi (R=Nd, Sm, T=Fe, Co). We use a combined molecular dynamics and Boltzmann dist…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 22 cited

Tuning magnetocrystalline anisotropy of FeSn by alloying

Olga Yu. Vekilova, Bahar Fayyazi, Konstantin P. Skokov +8

The electronic structure, magnetic properties and phase formation of hexagonal ferromagnetic FeSn-based alloys have been studied from first principles and by experiment. The…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 46 cited

Preconditioned nonlinear conjugate gradient method for micromagnetic energy minimization

Lukas Exl, Johann Fischbacher, Alexander Kovacs +3

Fast computation of demagnetization curves is essential for the computational design of soft magnetic sensors or permanent magnet materials. We show that a sparse preconditioner fo…

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…

physics.comp-ph2017★ 23 cited

Micromagnetic Simulations for Coercivity Improvement through Nano-Structuring of Rare-Earth Free L1-FeNi Magnets

Alexander Kovacs, Johann Fischbacher, Harald Oezelt +6

In this work we investigate the potential of tetragonal L1 ordered FeNi as candidate phase for rare earth free permanent magnets taking into account anisotropy values from rece…

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…

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…

physics.comp-ph2015★ 2 cited

Numerical optimization of writer geometries for bit patterned magnetic recording

A. Kovacs, H. Oezelt, S. Bance +6

A fully-automated pole-tip shape optimization tool, involving write head geometry construction, meshing, micromagnetic simulation and evaluation, is presented. Optimizations have b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 41 cited

Micromagnetics of shape anisotropy based permanent magnets

Simon Bance, Johann Fischbacher, Thomas Schrefl +3

In the search for rare-earth free permanent magnets, various ideas related to shape anisotropy are being pursued. In this work we assess the limits of shape contributions to the re…