Bi-Directional Giant Magneto Impedance Sensor.docVIP

Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, 2013, 3, 249-254 /10.4236/ampc.2013.35036 Published Online September 2013 (/journal/ampc) Bi-Directional Giant Magneto Impedance Sensor Harsha Uppili, Bevin Daglen Oregon Episcopal School High School, Portland, USA Email: uppilih@ Received June 18, 2013; revised July 20, 2013; accepted August 1, 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Harsha Uppili, Bevin Daglen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT A thin film giant magneto impedance (GMI) based on magnetic field sensor has been developed using electrodeposited Ni-Fe permalloy. Chemical composition, surface morphology, and magnetic properties of Ni-Fe permalloy were char- acterized as a function of plateup parameters, and process conditions were established to deposit a Ni-Fe thin film with a high permeability (~1000) and a low coercivity (0.6 Oersted). Conventional GMI sensors are uni-directional and are several millimeters long. In this work, a spiral-shaped sensor using electroplated Ni-Fe permalloy to detect bi-direc- tional magnetic field is reported. Excellent bi-directional magnetic field sensing has been demonstrated using the 1 mm 2 compact double-spiral structure. Keywords: Giant Magneto Impedance; Bi-Directional Sensor; Permalloy 1. Introduction film [16]. This work reports GMI sensors fabricated us- ing a selective electro-deposition technique. Conven- tional GMI sensors are uni-directional and are several millimeters long to achieve the necessary sensitivity [15]. Atortuous shape of GMI sensor using magnetic ribbon was reported [17] with the length along with one axis significantly longer than the normal axis. Such a layout creates a compact sensor element but still the detection is primarily unidirectional. In this work, a simple