Characteristics and developments of advanced magnetic materials in electrical engineering: A review

Because of human concern for the growing demand for energy and the deterioration of resources and environment, making full development of advanced materials, especially the advanced magnetic materials in electrical engineering widely used in electrical machines, transformers and other electrical equipment, in order to saving energy and reducing consumption, has been a global consensus. Innovation and applications of advanced magnetic materials in electrical engineering such as electrical steel sheets, soft magnetic composite materials (SMCs), etc, have become the inexorable development trend in the field of electrical engineering, resulting in increasingly prominent impact on power systems at the same time. Therefore, great concerns are given from academic and engineering areas of all countries. The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively review the characteristics and development of the existing typical advanced magnetic materials in electrical engineering at home and abroad, and propose ideas and directions for future research and development. From the perspective of classifications, characteristics, applications and development trend, the possible and the potential progresses of advanced magnetic materials in electrical engineering are discussed emphatically in this paper, so that the readers can refer to it.