TY - JOUR A1 - Glavan, Gašper A1 - Belyaeva, Inna A. A1 - Shamonin (Chamonine), Mikhail T1 - Multiferroic Cantilevers Containing a Magnetoactive Elastomer: Magnetoelectric Response to Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields of Triangular and Sinusoidal Waveform T2 - Sensors N2 - In this work, multiferroic cantilevers comprise a layer of a magnetoactive elastomer (MAE) and a commercially available piezoelectric polymer-based vibration sensor. The structures are fixed at one end in the horizontal plane and the magnetic field is applied vertically. First, the magnetoelectric (ME) response to uniform, triangle-wave magnetic fields with five different slew rates is investigated experimentally. Time and field dependences of the generated voltage, electric charge, and observed mechanical deflection are obtained and compared for four different thicknesses of the MAE layer. The ME responses to triangular and sinusoidal wave excitations are examined in contrast. Second, the ME response at low frequencies (≤3 Hz) is studied by the standard method of harmonic magnetic field modulation. The highest ME coupling coefficient is observed in the bias magnetic field strength of ≈73 kA/m and it is estimated to be about 3.3 ns/m (ME voltage coefficient ≈ 25 V/A) at theoretically vanishing modulation frequency (f→0 Hz). Presented results demonstrate that the investigated heterostructures are promising for applications as magnetic-field sensors and energy harvesting devices. KW - magnetoactive elastomer KW - piezoelectric polymer KW - multilayer cantilever KW - direct magnetoelectric effect KW - magnetic field sensing Y1 - 2022 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4530 N1 - Corresponding authors: Gašper Glavan und Mikhail Shamonin VL - 22 IS - 10 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER -