非晶软磁合金的巨磁阻抗效应及应用

近来在ＦｅＣｏＳｉＢ等Ｃｏ基非晶体丝带中现了巨磁阻抗效应，由于在一小的直流纵向偏置场下该效应能使丝带两端的交流电压发生大而灵敏的变化，因而在磁记录头和传顺技术中具有巨大的应用科学潜能，受到各国学者的关注，本文简单介绍了巨磁阻抗效应的来源，并综述了近年来非晶体软磁合金材料的的巨磁阻抗效应及应用的研究进展，文章最后说明了尚待深入解决的问题。     

GMI磁传感器内部灵敏度与噪声特性研究

建立了非晶带GMI敏感元件的灵敏度和噪声理论模型,计算了其灵敏度和磁噪声在不同易轴方向和外磁场应用条件下的响应特性.通过改变易轴方向、外磁场及直流偏置场对非晶带敏感元件进行了优化,其内部磁噪声达到了fT/(√HZ)水平.分析了内部灵敏度、工作点和磁噪声水平对GMI磁传感器性能的影响,结果表明,在GMI磁传感器设计时,应...     

同轴电缆结构复合丝巨磁阻抗效应的研究

采用脉冲电沉积工艺在直径为200μm的铜丝表面沉积铁镍合金镀层,形成具有同轴电缆结构的巨磁阻抗复合丝材料。分别改变复合丝磁性外壳厚度与铜丝直径,研究复合丝结构对巨磁阻抗效应的影响。发现巨磁阻抗比值随磁性外壳厚度的增大及铜丝直径的增大而增大,特征频率则向低频端移动。本文还发现在外加直流磁场低于5．57kA／m时,驱动交流电幅值增大,巨磁阻抗效应增大;高于5．57kA／m时,驱动交流电幅值的大小几乎不再影响复合丝的巨磁阻抗效应。在驱动电流上叠加20mA以下的直流偏置对巨磁阻抗效应没有影响。     

巨磁阻抗传感器敏感材料的选择

利用巨磁阻抗(GMI)效应来研制传感器,敏感材料的选择非常关键,其GMI性能的好坏直接决定了GMI磁传感器的灵敏度水平.讨论了GMI材料的选择标准,列出了能够产生GMI效应的各种材料,并分析和评述了这些GMI材料的软磁特性、GMI效应及其在传感器上的可能应用,提供了设计高性能GMI传感器的候选材料,这些材料以及新型材料的开发为GMl传感器的研制创造了有利的条件,将会促进GMI传感器的发展与应用.     

高磷含量CoP-Cu复合丝巨磁阻抗效应的频谱特性

控制电化学工艺条件在直径为200μm的铜丝表面合成CoP磁性镀层成功地制备出高磷含量CoP—Cu复合丝巨磁阻抗效应材料。当磷含量为20%（原子分数）时,复合丝巨磁阻抗效应非常显著,达80%以上。本文详细研究了复合丝材料的频谱及巨磁阻抗效应频谱,指出复合丝巨磁阻抗具有较低的特征频率及较宽的频率使用范围与此新型结构有关,本文还发现,随频率的增加,最大负巨磁阻抗比对应的外加直流磁场也在增加,并且在高频与低频时,巨磁阻抗效应随磁场的响应曲线明显不同。     

From Manipulation of Giant Magnetoimpedance in Thin Wires to Industrial Applications

We present results on our studies of soft magnetic properties and Giant magnetoimpedance, GMI, effect in thin microwires at elevated frequencies paying special attention to tailoring the GMI effect and achievement of high GMI effect with low hysteretic behavior. We measured magnetic field, H, dependence of real part, of the longitudinal wire impedance up to frequency, f, 4 GHz in Co-rich microwires. Amorphous microwires of appropriate composition exhibit extremely soft magnetic properties with low coercivity (generally below 10 A/m) with well defined magnetic anisotropy field, H _k . We report a number of interesting for sensor applications phenomena such as stress-impedance effect and stress sensibility of overall hysteresis loop shape. Field dependence of the off-diagonal voltage response of pulsed GMI effect in nearly-zero magnetostriction (λ _s≈?3×10^?7) microwires exhibits anti-symmetrical shape, suitable for industrial applications. We observed that the magnetic field dependence of GMI ratio can be tailored either controlling magnetoelastic anisotropy of as-prepared microwires or by heat treatment. Composite character of such microwires results in the appearance of additional magnetoelastic anisotropy. We found that if the surface anisotropy is not circumferential, then the magnetization, and consequently, the MI curve Z(H) present hysteresis. This hysteresis can be suppressed by application of sufficiently high DC bias current I _B that creates a circumferential bias field H _B.     

Perpendicular GMI Effect in Meander NiFe and NiFe/Cu/NiFe Film

We have evaluated the perpendicular giant magnetoimpedance effect (GMI) in both NiFe and NiFe/Cu/NiFe films with meander geometry in the $>$1 MHz high-frequency range. With the magnetic field, the perpendicular GMI effect shows an intense GMI peak value at a certain field. This effect is comparable to the longitudinal GMI effect in both profile and peak value amplitude. The experimental results correspond well with the predictions of a single-domain rotational magnetization model. These findings demonstrate that the deflection of the anisotropy to a perpendicular direction plays an important role in the perpendicular GMI effect.      

Effects of thickness and heat treatments on giant magnetoimpedance of electrodeposited cobalt on silver wires

We studied the effects of thickness and heat treatments on giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) of cobalt-coated silver wires from 1 kHz to 100 MHz, under axial static magnetic field of 2 kOe. Cobalt, of thickness ranging from 1 to 25 /spl mu/m, was electro-deposited on 47.7-/spl mu/m-diameter silver wires. The frequency dependence of GMI varied with cobalt thickness with a maximum of 176% in 10-/spl mu/m-thick cobalt at the characteristic frequency 2 MHz. The characteristic frequency decreased with increasing thickness of cobalt layer but it was rather insensitive to dc Joule heating and conventional furnace annealing. However, both heat treatments led to magnetic hardening and decrease in GMI ratio. Joule heating also induced anisotropy in wire structures normally dominated by axial anisotropy.     

High Energy Resolution Cryogenic Alpha Spectrometers Using Magnetic Calorimeters

We report the recent progress on high resolution alpha spectrometers that use metallic magnetic calorimeters. The detector is composed of a meander-type magnetic calorimeter and a gold-foil absorber. The thermal connection between the magnetic sensor and the absorber consists of annealed gold wires. The signal rise time is found to be as expected, with the electronic thermal conductance of gold wires. The energy resolution of a 3.2?keV FWHM is obtained for 5.5?MeV alpha particles with possibilities for further improvements.     

An ultralow noise microwave oscillator based on a high-Q liquidnitrogen cooled sapphire resonator

Two liquid nitrogen-cooled sapphire loaded cavities (SLC's) operating at about 80 K have been successfully constructed, Both cavities were designed to operate on the whispering gallery (WG) E_{12, 1, δ} mode at a resonant frequency of 8.95 GHz. The first SLC was used as the frequency-determining element in a loop oscillator, while the second was used as a frequency discriminator to measure oscillator phase noise. The single sideband phase noise of a free running loop oscillator incorporating the first SLC was measured as -133 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 1 kHz, and was limited by the SLC Q-factor and the amplifier flicker phase noise. By using specially designed feedback electronics the oscillator phase noise was reduced to -156 dBc/Hz and -162 dBc/Hz at 1 and 10 kHz offset, respectively. This measurement was shown to be limited by the electronic flicker noise imposed by the phase detector in the feedback electronics, To our knowledge the phase noise and resonator Q-factor of 6×10⁷ represent the best results ever measured at liquid nitrogen temperatures or above     

Co—Fe—Si—B非晶丝的巨磁阻抗效应研究

用旋转水中纺丝法制成几种不同直径的（Ｃｏ０．９４Ｆｅ０．０６）７２．５Ｓｉ１２．５Ｂ１５非晶丝,对丝进行张力退火后,测试了非晶丝热处理前后的磁阻抗性能。结果表明制成的非晶丝具有明显的巨磁阻抗效应,且巨磁阻抗效应随电流频率不同而表现出正磁阻抗和负磁阻抗两种规律。张力退火对正磁阻抗效应有明显改善,而且对直径小的试样,阻抗对轴向外磁场变化的灵敏度更高。实验得到的最大灵敏度为１２４％／Ｏｅ。     

Beta Spectrometry with Magnetic Calorimeters

Absolute activity measurements of alpha, beta and gamma emitting radioactive sources are important in numerous fields such as therapeutic radiology and the characterization of nuclear waste. Conventional ionization and liquid scintillation detectors, which are commonly used for these applications, have an energy dependent quantum efficiency and severe limitations in energy resolution. As a novel alternative we have developed a detector based on a metallic magnetic calorimeter (MMC) with a gold absorber that covers the full solid angle of 4π around the radioactive source. Deposition of energy in the absorber causes a temperature rise and results in a change of magnetization of a parametric Au:Er sensor, which can be measured by a low-noise high-bandwidth dc-SQUID. The detector has equal sensitivity for beta and gamma radiation. In this paper we describe a detector which has a deviation from linear behavior for energies up to 700 keV of smaller than 0.5% and an overall quantum efficiency for beta particles in this energy range close to unity. We show the data of our experiments measuring the decay of ³⁶Cl and compare the results to the theoretically expected spectrum for this second order forbidden non-unique β-decay. We discuss the observed contributions to noise, the quantum efficiency and the achieved energy resolution.     

Improvement of the /spl mu/-Hall magnetic sensor sensitivity at low frequency

We have developed a configuration for precision magnetic measurements associating a /spl mu/-Hall sensor, a modulated ferromagnetic antenna, and an analog electronic circuitry. This association is not only able to remove the 1/f noise of the Hall sensor, but also to achieve an ultimate noise level even lower than thermal white noise of the Hall sensor. The system main characteristics are the following: bandwidth 645 Hz, noise level white and lower than 10 nT//spl radic/Hz above 0.1 Hz, slew rate 10/sup -1/ T/s and system dynamic 84 dB in a 1-Hz bandwidth. The performances of the modulated sensor are compared to those of a dc operated sensor.     

电流退火对CoFeSiB非晶丝和薄带的巨磁阻抗效应比较

采用熔融抽拉法和单辊急冷法分别制备了Co68.25Fe4.5Si12.25B15非晶丝和薄带。测量了制备态下两者的巨磁阻抗(GMI)效应,发现非晶丝的GMI比率高于薄带。研究了不同电流密度退火后非晶丝和薄带的GMI效应,结果发现ΔΖ/Ζ=[Z(H)-Z(H=0)]/Z(H=0)都明显上升,且非晶薄带数值更大;当电流密度等于0.96×107A/m2时,薄带的这一比率最大达到410%,磁场灵敏度达到5.1%/(A/m)。分析了出现上述现象的原因。     

External phase-modulation interferometry

We analyze and test a laboratory benchtop version of a compound interferometric phase sensor, a Michelson interferometer whose output is combined coherently with a phase-modulated local oscillator beam tapped off the Michelson input beam. This configuration models a whole class of external-modulation interferometers designed to shift signals, obscured by low-frequency intensity noise of the light source, into a shot-noise-limited region of the photocurrent spectrum. We find analytically that the shot-noise-limited sensitivity achievable with this system is comparable with that obtained by using internal phase modulation, with both schemes suffering (for different reasons) approximately a 22% sensitivity penalty compared with ideal shot-noise-limited direct detection. Experimentally we achieve true shot-noise-limited sensitivity, and we investigate trade-offs necessitated by commonly encountered nonideal features in any external-modulation system. Our analytic model, which specifically accounts for Michelson fringe contrast, electronic receiver noise, phase-modulation depth, and the local oscillator tap-off fraction, is sufficiently accurate to predict the absolute sensitivity of our benchtop instrument to within 0.5 dB.     

Metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMC): detectors for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy

X-ray detectors based on the concept of magnetic calorimetry are well suited for high-resolution spectroscopy. Metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMC) make use of a metallic paramagnetic temperature sensor, which is in tight thermal contact with a metallic X-ray absorber. The paramagnetic sensor is placed in a small magnetic field. Its magnetization is used to monitor the temperature, which in turn is related to the internal energy of the calorimeter. High-energy resolution can be obtained by using a low-noise, high-bandwidth DC SQUID to measure the small change in magnetization upon the absorption of an X-ray. With recent prototype detectors an energy resolution of ΔE_FWHM=3.4 eV for X-ray energies up to 6.5 keV has been achieved. We discuss general design considerations, the thermodynamic properties of such calorimeters, the energy resolution, and the various sources of noise, which are observed in MMCs.     

Giant Magnetoimpedance Current Sensor With Array-Structure Double Probes

We have designed a novel giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) noncontact current sensor with array structure double probes. Unlike previously reported sensors, our sensor's probes consist of many pieces of commercial amorphous ribbons, which are parallel to each other, equidistant, and connected in series, and a permanent magnet provides a bias magnetic field. The double-probe output shows the best sensitivity and linearity at a bias magnetic field of 7.40 Oe. Under this field, the sensor shows sensitivity of 1 V/A in the current range of plusmn3 A, measurement precision of less than 0.15% at room temperature, and good thermal stability in the temperature region between -20degC and 30degC.     

Development and analysis of a PCB vector 2-D magnetic field sensor system for electronic compasses

A high-sensitivity vector two-dimensional (2-D) magnetic sensor system for low magnetic field measurements has been realized and tested. The system, made in PCB technology, consists of a double-axis Fluxgate magnetic sensor and the readout electronic circuitry, based on second-harmonic detection. The amorphous magnetic materials Vitrovac 6025X (25 /spl mu/m thick) and Vitrovac 6025Z (20 /spl mu/m thick) were used as the ferromagnetic core of the sensor. By applying a sinusoidal excitation current having a 450-mA peak at 10 kHz with Vitrovac 6025Z, the measured magnetic sensitivity was about 1.25 mV//spl mu/T. This value seems to be adequate for the Earth's magnetic field detection (/spl plusmn/60 /spl mu/T). The full-scale linearity error was about 1.5%. By using the thicker Vitrovac 6025X and a sinusoidal excitation current having a 600-mA peak at 10 kHz, a maximum sensitivity of approximately 1.68 mV//spl mu/T with a linearity error of about 1.55% full scale in the range of /spl plusmn/60 /spl mu/T were measured. Due to the use of commercially available ferromagnetic materials, the vector 2-D magnetic sensor system presented is characterized by a very simple fabrication process, thus allowing low-cost devices to be designed.     

Simulation of Giant Magnetic Impedance (GMI) Effect in Co-based Amorphous Ribbons with Demagnetizing Field

Considering the role of demagnetizing field, based on linear Maxwell’s equations and the Landau-Lifshitz equation, the expressions of permeability and impedance were obtained using the improved theoretical model in this article. A numerical simulation was conducted using Matlab, and the results of calculations were well matched with the experimental results, indicating the importance of the demagnetizing field and that it should not be ignored. Utilizing the equivalence relation between the shape of the samples and the demagnetization factor which determined the value of the demagnetizing field, the influence of the aspect ratio of the samples on giant magnetic impedance (GMI) effect was researched. The calculations showed that the most significant GMI effect was obtained when the aspect ratio of samples was about 44. In addition, the optimal frequency to obtain the most significant GMI effect of the given sample was calculated. These researches may provide theoretical guidance for the development and use of a GMI sensor.     

The use of thermosensitive quartz sensor for thermal regulation at cryogenic temperatures: application to microwave sapphire resonator references

We demonstrated the use of thermosensitive quartz resonator oscillator as a thermal sensor for temperature control at the liquid nitrogen temperature. The high sensitivity of the quartz enables an efficient thermal regulation at ambient temperature as well as liquid nitrogen temperature. LC-cut quartz oscillator phase noise measurements show that the temperature measurement resolution is not limited by the intrinsic noise of the sensor and that a resolution of 10 muK can be achieved. This thermal regulation is applied to control a microwave temperature-compensated sapphire resonator oscillator at a temperature above 77 K, enabling the achievement of a flicker floor of 9.10(-13 ) at 9 GHz.