Modeling and Suppression of Eddy Current Loss for BAW Magnetoelectric Devices

The conductive magnetic film will produce eddy current loss when it works in a high-frequency band, which will reduce the performance of bulk acoustic wave magnetoelectric (BAW ME) devices. If the eddy current loss is not taken into account in the devices modeling, the models will be seriously distorted. Therefore, combining the Maxwell's equations with constitutive relations of ME material, we define the eddy current loss angle as a figure of merit to evaluate the eddy current loss. Then the models of eddy current loss rate of the potential energy and average radiated power are constructed, respectively. The finite element analysis is used to further validate the analytic model. In addition, the effect of isolation layers on eddy current suppression is studied by using the analytical model. The results show that the analytical solutions match with the numerical simulation results perfectly.

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The study defines the eddy current loss angle as a figure of merit to evaluate the eddy current loss and constructs models for the potential energy and average radiated power. The finite element analysis is used to validate the analytical model, which shows perfect agreement with numerical simulation results.