Functional magnetoelectric composites with magnetostrictive microwires

Effect of the Magnetostrictive Layer on Magnetoelectric Properties in Lead Zirconate Titanate/Terfenol-D Laminate Composites

Magnetoelectric laminate composites of piezoelectric/magnetostrictive materials were prepared by stacking and bonding together a PZT disk and two layers of Terfenol-D disks with different directions of magnetostriction. These composites were studied to investigate (i) dependence on the magnetostriction direction of the Terfenol-D disk and (ii) dependence on the direction of the applied ac magne...

Tuneable Composites Containing Magnetic Microwires

Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Composites

Magnetoelectric (ME) multiferroics are materials in which ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity occur simultaneously and coupling between the two is enabled. Applied magnetic field H gives rise to an induced polarization P which can be expressed in terms of magnetic field by the expression, P=┙H, where ┙ is the ME-susceptibility tensor. Most of the known single-phase ME materials are known to sho...

Microwave Tunable Composites with Melt- Extracted Magnetic Microwires

1 General Introduction A key to the realization of effective microwave tunable devices, among others, is to develop adaptive materials with superior adjustability of electromagnetic parameters. Since there are two fundamental electromagnetic parameters, namely, permittivity and permeability, the tunable property can then be readily approached by manipulating (i) permittivity directly via the el...

Magnetostrictive composites in the dilute limit

We calculate the effective properties of a magnetostrictive composite in the dilute limit. The composite consists of well separated identical ellipsoidal particles of magnetostrictive material, surrounded by an elastic matrix. The free energy of the magnetostrictive particles is computed using the constrained theory of DeSimone and James [2002. A constrained theory of magnetoelasticity with app...