TY - CONF A1 - Sergeeva-Chollet, N. A1 - Decitre, J.-M. A1 - Fermon, C. A1 - Pelkner, Matthias A1 - Reimund, Verena A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc ED - Chimenti, D.E. ED - Bond, L.J. ED - Thompson, D.O. T1 - Development of eddy current probes based on magnetoresistive sensors arrays N2 - Eddy Current Technique is a powerful method for detection of surface notches and of buried flaws during inspection of metallic parts. Recent EC array probes have demonstrated a fast and efficient control of large surfaces. Nevertheless, when the size of flaws decreases or the defect is rather deep, traditional winding coil probes turn out to be useless. Magnetoresistive sensors present the advantages of flat frequency response and micron size. These sensors are hence very attractive for the detection of buried defects that require low frequencies because of skin depth effect. An optimization of the probe with magnetoresistive sensors as receivers has been made by simulations using CIVA software and finite elements methods with OPERA. EC probes for buried flaw detection have been designed. Experimental results have been compared with simulations. T2 - 40th Annual review of progress in quantitative nondestructive evaluation CY - Baltimore, Maryland, USA DA - 2013-07-21 KW - Eddy current KW - Magnetic sensor PY - 2014 SN - 978-0-7354-1212-5 SN - 978-0-7354-1211-8 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4864981 SN - 0094-243X N1 - Serientitel: AIP conference proceedings – Series title: AIP conference proceedings VL - 1581 33B SP - 1374 EP - 1379 PB - AIP Publishing AN - OPUS4-31279 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Caetano, D. M. A1 - Rabuske, T. A1 - Fernandes, J. A1 - Pelkner, Matthias A1 - Fermon, C. A1 - Cardoso, S. A1 - Ribes, B. A1 - Franco, F. A1 - Paul, J. A1 - Piedade, M. A1 - Freitas, P. P. T1 - High-Resolution Nondestructive Test Probes Based on Magnetoresistive N2 - This paper discloses two high-sensitivity probes for Eddy Current Nondestructive Test (NDT) of buried and surface defects. These probes incorporate eight and 32 magnetoresistive sensors, respectively, which are optimized for high sensitivity and spatial resolution. The signal processing and interfacing are carried out by a full-custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC signal chain performs with a thermal input-referred noise of 30 nV/√Hz at 1 kHz, with 66 mW of power consumption, in a die with 3.7 × 3.4 mm 2 . NDT results are presented, showing that there is an increase in spatial resolution of surface defects when contrasted to prior art, enabling the probes to resolve defects with diameters of 0.44 mm, pitches of 0.6 mm, and minimum edge distance as low as 0.16 mm. The results also show that the probe for buried defects is a good all-round tool for detection of defects under cladding and multiple-plate flat junctions. KW - ASIC KW - Magnetoresistive sensor KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Eddy current testing KW - High resolution PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2018.2879306 VL - 66 IS - 9 SP - 7326 EP - 7337 PB - IEEE AN - OPUS4-48239 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -