Influence of direct bias current on the electromagnetic properties of melt-extracted microwires and their composites

Abstract

We study the influence of a direct bias current on the magnetoimpedance (MI) in melt-extracted amorphous CoFeSiB microwires and the effective electromagnetic properties of epoxy composites filled with these microwires. Our analysis reveals two remarkable features of the current dependence of MI in the range of gigahertz frequencies: a redshift of the dielectric resonance frequency and a decrease of the peak resonance of the effective permittivity as the bias current increases. Both effects are intrinsically linked to the influence of the polymer matrix on the magnetic structure and properties of the microwires. A discussion of these results is proposed in terms of two competing effects of the bias current, i.e., the induced additional effective field in the plane normal to the wire axis and the stress relief from Joule heating. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.