Tunable Magnetoelectric Bending Resonance for Sensing Static Magnetic Fields

Bilayered magnetostrictive-piezoelectric composites exhibit a resonant enhancement of magnetoelectric coupling when operated under bending mode. Such composites are of importance for achieving ultrasensitive magnetometers for quasi-static magnetic fields detection by measuring the parameter variations near the resonant frequency. The detection performance is limited by diverse noise processes appearing in the composite and associated electronics, such as extrinsic interferences due to environmental vibrations and temperature variations and also loss noise related to energy dissipations in the composite. The noise source, in bending mode, is due to thermomechanical dissipations. In this paper, the field detection performance relating to this noise in a doubly clamped magnetoelectric composite is investigated by means of modulation techniques.