6 research outputs found
Anisotropy of the ÎE effect in Ni-based magnetoelectric cantilevers: a finite element method analysis
In recent investigations of magnetoelectric sensors based on microelectromechanical cantilevers made of TiN/AlN/Ni, a complex eigenfrequency behavior arising from the anisotropic ÎE effect was demonstrated. Within this work, a FEM simulation model based on this material system is presented to allow an investigation of the vibrational properties of cantilever-based sensors derived from magnetocrystalline anisotropy while avoiding other anisotropic contributions. Using the magnetocrystalline ÎE effect, a magnetic hardening of Nickel is demonstrated for the (110) as well as the (111) orientation. The sensitivity is extracted from the field-dependent eigenfrequency curves. It is found, that the transitions of the individual magnetic domain states in the magnetization process are the dominant influencing factor on the sensitivity for all crystal orientations. It is shown, that Nickel layers in the sensor aligned along the medium or hard axis yield a higher sensitivity than layers along the easy axis. The peak sensitivity was determined to 41.3 T â1 for (110) in-plane-oriented Nickel at a magnetic bias flux of 1.78 mT. The results achieved by FEM simulations are compared to the results calculated by the EulerâBernoulli theory
Automated parameter extraction of ScAlN MEMS devices using an extended Euler-Bernoulli beam theory
Magnetoelectric sensors provide the ability to measure magnetic fields down to the pico tesla range and are currently the subject of intense research. Such sensors usually combine a piezoelectric and a magnetostrictive material, so that magnetically induced stresses can be measured electrically. Scandium aluminium nitride gained a lot of attraction in the last few years due to its enhanced piezoelectric properties. Its usage as resonantly driven microelectromechanical system (MEMS) in such sensors is accompanied by a manifold of influences from crystal growth leading to impacts on the electrical and mechanical parameters. Usual investigations via nanoindentation allow a fast determination of mechanical properties with the disadvantage of lacking the access to the anisotropy of specific properties. Such anisotropy effects are investigated in this work in terms of the Youngâs modulus and the strain on basis of a MEMS structures through a newly developed fully automated procedure of eigenfrequency fitting based on a new non-Lorentzian fit function and subsequent analysis using an extended EulerâBernoulli theory. The introduced procedure is able to increase the resolution of the derived parameters compared to the common nanoindentation technique and hence allows detailed investigations of the behavior of magnetoelectric sensors, especially of the magnetic field dependent Youngâs modulus of the magnetostrictive layer
Multispectral electroluminescence enhancement of single-walled carbon nanotubes coupled to periodic nanodisk arrays
The integration of periodic nanodisk arrays into the channel of a light-emitting field-effect transistor leads to enhanced and directional electroluminescence from thin films of purified semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. The maximum enhancement wavelength is tunable across the near-infrared and is directly linked to the periodicity of the arrays. Numerical calculations confirm the role of increased local electric fields in the observed emission modification. Large current densities are easily achieved due to the high charge carrier mobilities of carbon nanotubes and will facilitate new electrically driven plasmonic devices
Broadband tunable, polarization-selective and directional emission of (6,5) carbon nanotubes coupled to plasmonic crystals
We
demonstrate broadband tunability of light emission from dense (6,5)
single-walled carbon nanotube thin films via efficient coupling to
periodic arrays of gold nanodisks that support surface lattice resonances
(SLRs). We thus eliminate the need to select single-walled carbon
nanotubes (SWNTs) with different chiralities to obtain narrow linewidth
emission at specific near-infrared wavelengths. Emission from these
hybrid films is spectrally narrow (20â40 meV) yet broadly tunable
(âŒ1000â1500 nm) and highly directional (divergence <1.5°).
In addition, SLR scattering renders the emission highly polarized,
even though the SWNTs are randomly distributed. Numerical simulations
are applied to correlate the increased local electric fields around
the nanodisks with the observed enhancement of directional emission.
The ability to control the emission properties of a single type of
near-infrared emitting SWNTs over a wide range of wavelengths will
enable application of carbon nanotubes in multifunctional photonic
devices