RARE EARTH-IRON-NITROGEN SYSTEM ALLOY MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING RARE EARTH-IRON-NITROGEN SYSTE

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The present invention provides a rare earth-iron-nitrogen-based alloy material which can produce a rare earth magnet having excellent magnetic characteristics and a method for producing the same, a rare earth-iron-based alloy material suitable as a raw material of the rare earth magnet and a method for producing the alloy material. A rare earth-iron-based alloy material is heat-treated in a hydrogen-containing atmosphere to produce a multi-phase powder 1 in which a phase 3 of a hydrogen compound of a rare earth element is dispersedly present in a phase 2 of an iron-containing material. A powder compact 4 produced by compression-molding the multi-phase powder 1 is heat-treated in a vacuum with a magnetic field of 3 T or more applied, thereby forming a rare earth-iron-based alloy material 5. The rare earth-iron-based alloy material 5 is heat-treated in a nitrogen atmosphere with a magnetic field of 3.5 T or more applied, thereby forming a rare earth-iron-nitrogen-based alloy material 6. The rare earth-iron-based alloy material 5 has a structure in which a crystal of a rare earth-iron-based alloy is oriented in the c-axis direction. The rare earth-iron-nitrogen-based alloy material 6 composed of an ideal nitride can be formed by nitriding the rare earth-iron-based alloy material 5 having this oriented structure with the magnetic field applied, and a rare earth magnet 7 having excellent magnetic characteristics can be formed.