Measurement of coercivity of soft magnetic materials in open magnetic circuit by pump-probe rubidium atomic magnetometer

Miao Pei-Xian; Wang Tao; Shi Yan-Chao; Gao Cun-Xu; Cai Zhi-Wei; Chai Guo-Zhi; Chen Da-Yong; Wang Jian-Bo

doi:10.7498/aps.71.20221618

Abstract

We report an experimental device and method of measuring the coercivity of soft magnetic material in an open magnetic circuit by using a pump-probe rubidium atomic magnetometer. The experimental device consists of a background magnetic field generation module, a pump-probe atomic magnetometer, a soft magnetic material magnetization and demagnetization module, and a software in a computer. The uniform background magnetic field ranging from 200 nT to 20000 nT along the z-axis at the rubidium bubble’s position is generated by a current carrying coil which is placed in a five-layer magnetic shielding cylinder. The saturation magnetization and demagnetization of soft magnetic material are realized by the soft magnetic sample magnetization and demagnetization module, respectively, which consists of a sample chamber, a soft magnetic sample, a magnetizing coil, a precision current source and a sample transfer rod. The sample chamber is placed in the magnetic field uniform area of the magnetizing coil which is placed in the magnetic shielding cylinder, and the sample transfer rod is used to transfer the soft magnetic sample into the center of the magnetizing coil. Both the rubidium bubble and the soft magnetic sample are placed on the z-axis of the magnetic shielding cylinder, and their distance is greater than or equal to 10 cm. The axis of the magnetizing coil coincides with the axis of the magnetic shielding cylinder, which ensures that the background magnetic field, the magnetic field generated by the magnetizing coil, and the magnetic field generated by the soft magnetic sample at the rubidium bubble’s position are all parallel to the axis direction of the magnetic shielding cylinder. The software in the computer realizes the magnetization and demagnetization of the soft magnetic sample by controlling the current output by the precision current source to the magnetizing coil, and also controls the pump-probe atomic magnetometer to measure the magnetic field at the rubidium bubble’s position. When the soft magnetic sample is magnetized or demagnetized in cycles, the magnetic field generated by the soft magnetic sample at the rubidium bubble’s position is obtained by subtracting the magnetic field value measured in advance when the sample is not placed in the sample chamber from the magnetic field value measured at same current value when the sample is placed in the sample chamber. Note that the sample does not move during the hysteresis loop measurement. When the magnetization of the soft magnetic sample decreases from the saturation value to zero, the magnetic field generated by the soft magnetic sample at the rubidium bubble’s position is zero, and the average coercivity of the sample can be calculated from the hysteresis loop.We use a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), a pump-detection rubidium atomic magnetometer and a Hall probe to measure the coercivity of the same permalloy strip sample, the average coercivities are 42.15 A/m, 40.632 A/m and 38.64 A/m, the biases of the hysteresis loops are 229.74 A/m, –0.95 A/m and –52.88 A/m, and the times of each measurement cycle are 9639 s, 1144 s, and 1630 s, respectively. The reproducibility of ten repeated measurements by using the pump-probe atomic magnetometer, expressed as relative standard deviation, is 0.16%, which is an order of magnitude higher than the counterparts from the methods described in China’s national standards GB/T 3656-2008 and GB/T 13888-2009. The accumulated drift of the biases of ten hysteresis loops measured by the pump-probe atomic magnetometer is 0.3 A/m. Based on the above experimental results, the coercivity measurement method by using the pump-probe atomic magnetometer has the advantages of no zero-point drift, good repeatability, fast measurement speed, and in-situ measurement, and has the potential applications in the basic research field and industrial field of magnetism.

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1.
Science and Technology on Vacuum Technology and Physics Laboratory, Lanzhou Institute of Physics, Lanzhou 730000, China
2.
Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

Corresponding author: Miao Pei-Xian, miaopeixian@163.com

Funds: Project supported by the Key R&D Program of Gansu Province of China (Grant No. 20YF3GA001) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12104198).

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图 1 测量软磁样品矫顽力的实验装置示意图

Figure 1. Schematic diagram of experimental device for measuring the coercivity of soft magnetic sample.

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图 2 软磁样品及其磁滞回线　(a)坡莫合金带; (b)用SQUID测量的磁滞回线

Figure 2. Soft magnetic sample and its hysteresis loop: (a) Permalloy ribbon; (b) hysteresis loop measured by superconducting quantum interference device.

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图 3 在开磁路中利用抽运-检测型原子磁力仪测量软磁样品的矫顽力的实验结果　(a)用抽运-检测型原子磁力仪测量的数据曲线; (b)软磁样品的磁滞回线; (c)软磁样品的矫顽力; (d)磁滞回线的偏置

Figure 3. Experimental results of measuring the coercivity of a soft magnetic sample in an open magnetic circuit by a pump-probe atomic magnetometer: (a) Curves measured by the pump-probe atomic magnetometer; (b) hysteresis loops of the soft magnetic sample; (c) coercivity of the soft magnetic sample; (d) bias of the hysteresis loop.

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图 4 在开磁路中利用霍尔探头测量软磁样品矫顽力的实验结果　(a)测量装置示意图; (b)用霍尔探头测量的磁滞回线; (c)软磁样品的矫顽力; (d)磁滞回线的偏置

Figure 4. Experimental results of measuring the coercivity of a soft magnetic sample in an open magnetic circuit by a Hall probe: (a) Schematic diagram of experimental device; (b) hysteresis loops measured by the Hall probe; (c) coercivity of the soft magnetic sample; (d) bias of the hysteresis loop.

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图 5 3种磁强计分别测量软磁样品矫顽力时的磁场扫描过程　(a) SQUID; (b)抽运-检测型原子磁力仪; (c)霍尔探头

Figure 5. Magnetic field scanning process when three kinds of magnetometers measure the coercivity of soft magnetic sample respectively: (a) Superconducting quantum interference device; (b) pump-probe atomic magnetometer; (c) Hall probe.

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[25]	李东辉 2020 硕士学位论文 (南京: 东南大学) Li D H 2020 M. S. Thesis (Nanjing: Southeast University) (in Chinese)

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