Giant magnetoelectric effect in self-biased laminates under zero magnetic field

Date
2013-02-01Author
Li, Menghui
Wang, Zhiguang
Wang, Yaojin
Li, Jiefang
Viehland, Dwight D.
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A giant magnetoelectric (ME) effect in self-biased annealed Metglas/Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3/Metglas laminates under zero magnetic bias is reported. The remanent magnetization was increased by annealing Metglas, which generated an internal bias field. This shifted the M-H hysteresis loops, yielding large values for the ME voltage coefficient of alpha(ME) = 12 V/cm.Oe and 380 V/cm.Oe at 1 kHz and electromechanical resonance under zero magnetic bias, respectively. This self-biased laminate is shown to have a high sensitivity to ac magnetic fields. (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4794056]