Electromagnetic analysis of layered magnetic/conductor structures

• A method is described for calculating the impedance of conductor structures comprised of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic layers of arbitrary cross sectional shape with transverse dimensions which are small compared to the conductors length. The method is exemplified on a conductor of axial symmetry enclosed in a high permeability film of uniaxial anisotropy along the conductor axis. To find the impedance the full boundary value problem for the vector potential is solved, allowing driving and eddy currents in both the conductor and the magnetic film, and taking into account the dynamics of the magnetization governed by the Landau-Lifshitz equations. The results obtained are used to model the giant magneto impedance effect in ferromagnetically coated wires.

Keyword

coated wire antennas

magneto-impedance

amorphous wires

plated wire

magnetoimpedance

anisotropy

inductors

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