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Ultra-Sensitive Magnetoelectric Sensors of Magnetic Fields for Biomedical Applications

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Composite multiferroics are materials in which electric polarization of the material is possible under the action of an external magnetic field and vice versa, a change in the magnetization of the structure when an electric field is applied. Such properties have a high practical potential for application in science and technology. Based on these materials, it is possible to manufacture a number of devices with unique properties, such as, for example, random access magnetoelectric (ME) memory, ME sensors of magnetic fields, current, magnetic nanoparticles, micromechanical ME antennas, voltage-adjustable microwave filters, resonators and phase shifters. Therefore, the search for new materials of composite multiferroics and the study of the ME effect in them is a priority and urgent task in the search and creation of new electronic devices. One of the most promising and close to practical implementation directions is the creation of highly sensitive sensors of ultra-weak magnetic fields on the basis of composite multiferroics. The absence of the need to cool such sensors is a significant technical advantage over superconducting quantum interferometers currently used for these purposes. To date, the best achieved limits for detecting magnetic fields using sensors based on composite magnetoelectrics are values of the order of pT/Hz1/2, and new works are regularly published that reduce this threshold by improving processing electronics and changing the sensor design. This threshold of sensitivity is already sufficient for reliable detection of magnetic fields induced by alpha-rhythm currents of the brain with amplitudes of units of pT (magnetoencephalography) and for detecting the magnetic activity of the human heart. The review article is devoted to composite magnetoelectric structures with a focus on sensor structures capable of detecting ultra-weak magnetic fields. The comparison of the limiting sensitivity to the magnetic field of the existing ME composite structures is carried out, the ways of increasing the sensitivity to the magnetic field are shown.

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    A. V. Turutin, I. V. Kubasov, A. M. Kislyuk, V. V. Kuts, M. D. Malinkovich, Yu. N. Parkhomenko & N. A. Sobolev

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Turutin, A.V., Kubasov, I.V., Kislyuk, A.M. et al. Ultra-Sensitive Magnetoelectric Sensors of Magnetic Fields for Biomedical Applications. Nanotechnol Russia 17, 261–289 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2635167622030223

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