Abstract
We report on the magnetoelectric (ME) effect in three-phase magnet-metal-cap-piezoceramic composites of a thickness-polarized Pb(Zr,Ti)O3disk bonded between two truncated conical brass caps and two thickness-magnetized NdFeB magnets along the thickness direction. The effect originated from the product of the magnetic attractive-repellent effect in the magnets and the amplified piezoelectric effect in the cap-disk assembly. The composites exhibited a ME voltage coefficient αVof ∼2.6 mV/Oe in the non-resonance frequency range of 0.1-10 kHz with good voltage-field linearity in the field range of 10-3-10 Oe, besides an enhanced αVof 167.4 mV/Oe at a resonance frequency of 14.4 kHz. Compared to conventional two-phase and three-phase magnetostrictive material-contained ME composites, these composites possessed two distinct benefits of higher property-tailorable flexibility and requiring no external dc bias magnetic field to enable an obvious αV.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 525-528 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing |
Volume | 86 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2007 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- General Materials Science