Enhance the Field Strength by Adding Soft Iron in the Hybrid Permanent magnet

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how adding soft iron to hybrid permanent magnets enhances magnetic field strength and control, enabling the design of variable gradient multipole magnets with improved field quality.

Contribution

It introduces a magnetic flux method for designing hybrid permanent dipoles and multipoles using soft iron to optimize field strength and uniformity.

Findings

Magnetic flux method effectively increases field strength.

Soft iron improves field uniformity and harmonic control.

Designs include variable gradient quadrupole and sextupole.

Abstract

Permanent magnet has a small and compact structure, is especially suitable for a narrow space. With the aid of soft iron, the magnetic field can be increased much more and the field uniformity can be well controlled. Most Permanent magnets have a symmetry structure; the soft iron can be selected as the float magnet pole to keep its constant scalar potential, and take roles as media to collect the direct flux from the permanent blocks, then release indirect flux in magnet aperture and to the nearby return yoke. This paper presents the magnetic flux method to design and fabricate a hybrid permanent dipole by using axially and radially magnetized permanent blocks. A variable gradient permanent quadrupole and a variable gradient sextupole are designed as the extend design examples . They all consist of two nested hybrid permanent rings, where the iron poles are used to control the field quality, collect the magnetic flux from the outer ring, block the skew quadrupole and high order harmonics.