This paper presents a miniature alternating magnetic field sensor made from magnetoelectric (ME) laminated materials with a universal tunable bias magnetic circuit. By adjusting the width of the bypass passage in the bias magnetic circuit, the magnetic flux in the ME materials could be tuned and make the ME sensor work under the optimal bias magnetic field. In our design, the sensor's dimension is as small as 8 mm along the detecting direction. Due to the excellent linearity when measuring low frequency alternating magnetic fields of 50 Hz, this miniature sensor is ideally suited for power line current measurement.
Bulk Terfenol-D/PZT composite material with laminated structure is prepared by sticky combination method. The magnetoelectric hysteresis loops under different frequencies are measured and analyzed by new plotting method in the polar coordinates. The results show that tiny phase drift occur in a non-resonant-frequency magnetoelectric hysteresis loop and significant phase drift as large as 90 degrees accompanied with a giant magnetoelectric effect occurs in a resonant-frequency magnetoelectric hysteresis loop. Terfenol-D powder/Epoxy/PZT composite material is prepared by fill method and used as contrast material. Comparison reveals that the phase drift in the non-resonant frequency magnetoelectric hysteresis loop is induced by eddy current in the bulk ferromagnetic constituent, while around the resonant frequency, the significant phase drift is derived from the variation of the elastic property induced by the applying magnetic field.
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