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Development of Free Space Microwave Sensing of Carbon Fiber Composites with Ferromagnetic Microwire Inclusions

Authors:
Valentina Zhukova
Mihail Ipatov
Paula Corte-León
Alvaro Gonzalez
Alfonso Garcia-Gómez
Francisco Javier Vallejo
Peio Olaskoaga
Johan Malm
Christer Johansson
Rafael Garcia-Etxabe
Arcady Zhukov

Keywords: magnetic microwires; magnetic softness; carbon fiber composite; magnetoimpedance effect.

Abstract:
In this work, we provide new experimental results on studies of composites with glass-coated ferromagnetic microwires aligned with the requirements of carbon composites. This work focuses on the free space microwave measurements of composites made from carbon fibers and ferromagnetic microwires inclusion focusing on the electromagnetic properties. We prepared and measured hysteresis loops and the magnetoimpedance effect of several microwires and selected Co-rich microwires with better magnetic softness and higher magnetoimpedance effect. We observed that by using a low frequency modulating magnetic field allows us to distinguish the microwave signals originated by ferromagnetic microwires inclusions from that generated by the carbon fibers. The location of carbon fibers near magnetic microwires has a critical effect on the response signals (parameters S amplitude) obtained from such composites.

Pages: 88 to 93

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: November 13, 2023

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-68558-089-6

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2023 to November 17, 2023