Newly developed electrical steel for high-frequency use

For high-frequency appliances, a new magnetic material was developed, and its properties were investigated and compared with conventional electrical steel and 6.5% Si steel. The new material has extremely low iron loss at high frequencies over 5 kHz as well as 6.5% Si steel, which was obtained by increasing electric resistivity, or by reducing its eddy current loss. Generally, increasing resistivity makes steels brittle and deteriorates their workability. However, the developed material showed a good workability with the effect of Cr addition. This material has a good property of pulse response, and also showed an excellent performance for power electronics device using an active filter operated at 15 kHz.