A nanoheterostructured permanent magnet includes a hard magnetic material and a soft magnetic material of which one inorganic component is a matrix, and of which the other inorganic component is three-dimensionally and periodically arranged in the matrix, in a shape selected from the group consisting of a spherical shape, a columnar shape, and a gyroid shape, the nanoheterostructured permanent magnet having a three-dimensional periodic structure whose average value of one unit length of a repeated structure is 1 nm to 100 nm.

According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a stacked body and a controller. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer stacked with the first magnetic layer, and a first nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. The second ferromagnetic layer includes a first portion and a second portion stacked with the first portion. The controller causes a current to flow in the stacked body in a programming period. The programming period includes a first and a second period. The current has a first value in the first period and a second value in the second period. The second value is less than the first value.

The present invention relates to a magnetic material containing a magnetic alloy particle having an ordered crystal structure. The magnetic material according to the present invention is the one composed of a magnetic alloy particle having crystal magnetic anisotropy and being composed of an FePt alloy, a CoPt alloy, an FePd alloy, a Co.sub.3Pt alloy, an Fe.sub.3Pt alloy, a CoPt.sub.3 alloy, an FePt.sub.3 alloy, or the like, and a silica carrier covering the magnetic alloy, in which the silica carrier contains an alkali-earth metal compound such as an oxide, hydroxide or silicate compound of Ba, Ca, or Sr. The magnetic material according to the present invention is excellent in magnetic properties such as coercive force.

The flaky magnetic metal particles of the embodiments include a plurality of flaky magnetic metal particles, each of the flaky magnetic metal particles including a first magnetic particle including a flat surface, at least one first element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni, an average ratio between the maximum length and the minimum length in the flat surface being between 1 and 5 inclusive, an average thickness of the first magnetic particles being between 10 nm and 100 m inclusive, an average aspect ratio of the first magnetic particles being between 5 and 10000 inclusive; and a plurality of second magnetic particles disposed on the flat surface, an average number of the second magnetic particles being five or more, an average diameter of the second magnetic particles being between 10 nm and 1 m inclusive.

A ferrite sintered magnet includes a composition expressed by a formula (1) of Ca.sub.1-w-xLa.sub.wA.sub.xFe.sub.zCo.sub.mO.sub.19. In the formula (1), w, x, z, and m satisfy a formula (2) of 0.30w0.50, a formula (3) of 0.08x0.20, a formula (4) of 8.55z10.00, and a formula (5) of 0.20m0.40. In the formula (1), A is at least one kind of element selected from a group consisting of Sr and Ba. Cr is further contained at 0.058 mass % to 0.132 mass % in terms of Cr.sub.2O.sub.3.

A non-oriented magnetic steel sheet includes a specific chemical composition represented by, in mass %: Si: 3.0% to 3.6%; Al: 0.50% to 1.25%; Mn: 0.5% to 1.5%; Sb or Sn or both of them: [Sb]+[Sn]/2 is 0.0025% to 0.05% where [Sb] denotes an Sb content and [Sn] denotes an Sn content; P: 0.010% to 0.150%; Ni: 0.010% to 0.200%; C: 0.0010% to 0.0040%; and others. The thickness of the non-oriented magnetic steel sheet is 0.15 mm to 0.30 mm. the non-oriented magnetic steel sheet includes magnetic properties represented by, where t denotes a thickness (mm) of the non-oriented magnetic steel sheet: a magnetic flux density B50: 0.2t+1.52 T or more; a magnetic flux density difference B50: 0.08 T or less; core loss W10/50: 0.95 W/kg or less; and core loss W10/400: 20t+7.5 W/kg or less. A ratio of a number of intergranular carbides precipitated in grains relative to a sum of the number of the intergranular carbides and a number of grain boundary carbides precipitated on grain boundaries is 0.50 or less.

A method of manufacturing a magnetically graded material, including depositing a steel filler material to a substrate, and applying a directed energy source to first and second regions of the filler material to thereby join the filler material to form a joined material. The energy source is directed to the first region while the first region is provided with an inert shield gas such that the material of the first regions includes a magnetic phase, and the energy source is directed to the second region while the second region is provided with a nitrogen containing shield gas to thereby impart an non-magnetic phase to the joined material.

A coil component includes a body; and a coil disposed within the body, wherein the coil includes: a first coil conductor including a first conductor pattern with a planar coil shape and a first lead terminal extended to at least one surface of the body; a second coil conductor including a second conductor pattern with a planar coil shape and a second lead terminal extended to at least one surface of the body; and a connection conductor connecting the first and second coil conductors to each other and including a third lead terminal extended to at least one surface of the body.

In a laser processing apparatus for refining magnetic domains of a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet by setting a laser beam to be focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet and scanned in a scanning direction, the laser beam focused on the grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is linearly polarized light, and the angle between the linear polarization direction and the scanning direction is equal to or higher than 0 and lower than 45.

An electronic component includes a composite body made of a composite material of a resin material and a metal powder; and a metal film disposed on an outer surface of the composite body. The metal film is in contact with the resin material and the metal powder of the composite body, and an average particle diameter of crystals of the metal film contacting the resin material is 60% or more and 120% or less of an average particle diameter of crystals of the metal film contacting the metal powder.