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Amorphous melt-spun ribbons of an Nd/sub 4/Fe/sub 77.5/B/sub 18.5/ alloy were consolidated into bulk materials by a spark plasma sintering method. The resultant bulk materials were amorphous when the ribbons were consolidated at 773 K. The amorphous bulk materials showed a low coercivity as expected for amorphous Nd-Fe-B materials. Heat treatment of the bulk materials above the crystallization temperature resulted in the formation of a metastable Fe/sub 3/B phase together with an Nd/sub 2/Fe/sub 14/B phase. The resultant nanocomposite magnets showed a coercivity as high as 2.4 kOe as was the case for the annealed melt-spun ribbons. Such a bulk nanocomposite magnet with a high coercivity could be directly produced by the spark plasma sintering method. The bulk materials consolidated at 873 K consisted of Fe/sub 3/B and Nd/sub 2/Fe/sub 14/B phases and exhibited a high coercivity without heat treatment. The optimally annealed specimen showed a high remanence of 12 kG with the maximum energy product in excess of 10 MGOe.
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