Longitudinal and transverse magnetoelectric voltage coefficients of magnetostrictive/piezoelectric laminate composite: Theory

This paper presents a novel, long-type of magnetostrictive and piezoelectric laminate composite design in which the layers are, respectively, magnetized/poled along their length axes, and a theory for modeling its behavior. Using piezoelectric and magnetostrictive constitutive equations, and an equation of motion, a magneto-elasto-electric bieffect equivalent circuit is developed. The circuit is used to predict the longitudinal and transverse magnetoelectric (ME) voltage coefficients of our Terfenol-D/Pb(Zr1-xTix)O-3 laminate design. It is found that the longitudinal ME voltage coefficient is significantly higher (similar to5x) than the transverse one, and that our new laminate design has significantly higher ME voltage coefficients under small applied direct current (DC) magnetic bias fields than designs reported previously by other groups. Experimental values were found to be coincidental with predicted ones.