Effect of laser treatment on high and low induction loss components of grain oriented iron-silicon sheets

Power losses of laser scribed GO electrical sheets were measured in the frequency range from 0.05 to 500 Hz and subdivided both into static and eddy current losses, and into low and high induction losses. High induction losses of sheets are increased by laser treatment while low induction losses are increased by a treatment only with very high laser intensity but they are reduced if low laser intensities are used. Low induction losses rise with frequency and high induction losses are nearly constant. Similarly static hysteresis losses are increased by laser scribing while eddy current losses show a similar behavior as low induction losses. It can be concluded that power losses are mainly determined by static losses that increase with defects produced by laser scribing, and the mobility and movement of rigid domain walls while rotation of magnetic moments as well as domain wall annihilation and recreation are having only minor influence.