Low Frequency Magnetoelectric Sensor Without Bias Using Laminated Metglas/Quartz/Metglas Structure
Sun C.1, Yang W.1, He Y.2, Chen L.2, Dong C.2, Liang X.2, Chen H.2, Sun N.-X.2
1State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Email: wryang@hebut.edu.cn

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Tremendous progress has been made on boosting the performance of magnetoelecric sensor to detect low frequency magnetic field signal by frequency multiplication based on magnetolectric composites. In this paper, a novel magnetoelectric sensor based on the laminated Metglas/piezoelectric quartz crystal/Metglas composites structure is presented. The Metglas foils are bonded symmetrically on both sides of the X-cut quartz crystal plate with epoxy. Experiments showed that the ME composites sensor was able to achieved a limit of detection of 11 pT for a low frequency magnetic field 1 Hz without any bias field through frequency multiplication method. The noise power spectrum density of the sensor has also been tested to be 3.93·10-6 V/Hz1/2 at 1 Hz. The results indicate that the proposed sensor has favorable features, which provides a cost-effective and high-performance approach for low frequency magnetic field measurement. Keywords: Low frequency, limit of detection, magnetoelectric sensor, piezoelectric quartz crystal.
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