Disclosed herein are embodiments of composite hexagonal ferrite materials formed from a combination of Y phase and Z phase hexagonal ferrite materials. Advantageously, embodiments of the material can have a high resonant frequency as well as a high permeability. In some embodiments, the materials can be useful for magnetodielectric antennas.

An object shaping method includes a step of forming a powder layer using first powder, a step of placing second powder having an average particle diameter smaller than an average particle diameter of the first powder at a part of a region of the powder layer, and a first heating step of heating the powder layer in which the second powder is placed. The average particle diameter is equal to or larger than 1 nm and equal to or smaller than 500 nm, and the first heating step performs heating the powder layer at a temperature at which particles contained in the second powder are sintered or melted.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a composite metal oxide hollow fibre. A certain stoichiometry of composite metal oxide raw material and a polymer binding agent are added to an organic solvent, and mixed mechanically to obtain an evenly dispersed spinning solution having a suitable viscosity. After defoaming treatment, the spinning solution is extruded through a spinneret and, after undergoing a certain dry spinning process, enters an external coagulation bath; during this period, a phase inversion process occurs and composite metal oxide hollow fibre blanks are formed. The blanks are immersed in the external coagulation bath and the organic solvent is displaced; after natural drying, the blanks undergo a heat treatment process; during this period, polymer burn off, in situ reaction, and in situ sintering processes occur to obtain the composite metal oxide hollow fibre.

A ceramic and a method of forming a ceramic including milling steel slag exhibiting a diameter of 5 mm of less to form powder, sieving the powder to retain the powder having a particle size in the range of 20 to 400 removing free iron from the powder with a magnet, heat treating the powder at a temperature in the range of 700 C. to 1200 C. for a time period in the range of 1 hour to 10 hours and oxidizing retained iron in the powder, compacting the powder at a compression pressure in the range of 20 MPa to 300 MPA, and sintering the powder at a temperature in the range of 700 C. to 1400 C. for a time period in the range of 0.5 hours to 4 hours to provide a ceramic.

A polycrystalline fused product based on brownmillerite, includes, for more than 95% of its weight, of the elements Ca, Sr, Fe, O, M and M, the contents of the elements being defined by the formula X.sub.yM.sub.zFe.sub.tM.sub.uO.sub.2.5, wherein the atomic indices are such that 0.76y1.10, z0.21, 0.48t1.15 and u0.52, 0.95y+z1.10, and 0.95t+u1.10, X being Ca or Sr or a mixture of Ca and Sr, M being an element chosen from the group formed by La, Ba and mixtures thereof, M being an element chosen from the group formed by Ti, Cu, Gd, Mn, Al, Sc, Ga, Mg, Ni, Zn, Pr, In, Co, and mixtures thereof, the sum of the atomic indices of Ti and Cu being less than or equal to 0.1.

There is provided a ferrite powder for bonded magnets capable of producing ferrite bonded magnets with high BH.sub.max, excellent in MFR when converted to a compound, with high p-iHc, wherein an average particle size of particles obtained by a dry laser diffraction measurement is 5 m or less, a specific surface area is 1.90 m.sup.2/g or more and less than 3.00 m.sup.2/g, a compression density is 3.40 g/cm.sup.3 or more and less than 3.73 g/cm.sup.3, and a compressed molding has a coercive force of 2800 Oe or more and less than 3250 Oe.

A sinterable magnetic powder composition including: from 50 to 95% of a powder magnet; and from 5 to 50% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer; for the total weight of the composition, said powder composition having a D50 comprised within the range of 0.1 to 100 m. And, to the use of the composition in processes used to agglomerate powders, layer by layer, by melting or sintering, for manufacturing three-dimensional magnetic objects.

A grain-oriented M-type hexagonal ferrite has the formula MeFe.sub.12O.sub.19, and a dopant effective to provide planar magnetic anisotropy and magnetization in a c-plane, or a cone anisotropy, in the hexagonal crystallographic structure wherein Me is Sr.sup.+, Ba.sup.2+ or Pb.sup.2+, and wherein greater than 30%, preferably greater than 80%, of c-axes of the ferrite grains are aligned perpendicular to the c-plane.

A ferrite sintered magnet contains a main phase formed of ferrite having a hexagonal magnetoplumbite type crystalline structure; a first subphase containing La, Ca, and Fe, in which an atomic ratio of La is higher than that of the main phase, and the atomic ratio of La is higher than an atomic ratio of Ca; and a second subphase containing La, Ca, Si, B, and Fe, in which an atomic ratio of Ca is higher than an atomic ratio of La, an atomic ratio of B is higher than an atomic ratio of Fe, and the atomic ratio of Fe is lower than that of the main phase. An area ratio of the second subphase on a cross-sectional surface of the ferrite sintered magnet is greater than or equal to 1%.

The present invention relates to a piezoelectric ceramic stacked structure, and the piezoelectric ceramic stacked structure includes at least one first layer including a KNN-based ceramic; and at least one second layer including a BFO-based ceramic, wherein a ratio of a number (n1) of the first layers stacked to a number (n2) of the second layers stacked in the piezoelectric ceramic stacked structure satisfies Equation (1) below:

0.8?|q|/|p|?n1/n2?1.2?|q|/|p|(1) (Equation (1) is as defined in the Description).