Stress reconfigurable tunable magnetoelectric resonators as magnetic sensors

We report a magnetoelastic effect in doubly clamped ferromagnetic magnetostrictive Metglas resonators with electrically and magnetically reconfigurable frequency response. The field-induced resonance frequency shift is due to magnetostrictive strain, which is shown to have a strong dependence on uniaxial stress. Here, we demonstrate that this magnetic field induced behavior can be used as the basis for a simple, tunable, magnetoelectric magnetic field sensor. The effect of tension on the field dependent magnetostrictive constant and the sensor sensitivity is examined, and the equivalent magnetic noise floor of such a sensor is estimated.

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