Fabrication of ferromagnetic wires.- Domain structure and properties of ferromagnetic wires.- Giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) in ferromagnetic wires.- Influence of measuring parameters on the GMI effect in ferromagnetic wires.- Influence of processing parameters on the GMI effect in ferromagnetic wires.- Selection of GMI wires for sensor applications.- GMI sensors and their applications.- Development of microwire composites and their structural performance.- Microwave tunable properties of microwire composites.- Microwave absorption and metamaterial characteristics.- Applications of microwire composites.
Dr.
Faxiang Qin
Dr. Faxiang Qin is
currently a research professor in the School of Materials Science and
Engineering at Zhejiang University, China. He also serves as the associate
director of the Institute for Composites Science Innovation there. He was a
JSPS fellow at National Institute for Materials Science, Japan from 2013-2015.
Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral researcher in Advanced Composite Centre
for Innovation and Science at the University of Bristol and Lab-STICC at
Université de Bretagne Occidentale from 2010 to 2013. He received the MSc in
nano-materials from the South China University of Technology in 2007 and Ph.D
in multifunctional composites from the University of Bristol in 2010. He was a
recipient of the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORSAS) and the
University of Bristol Postgraduate Student Scholarship. He was nominated for
the Exceptional Thesis Prize and selected as one of the two candidates at
Bristol for UK Royal Academy Engineering Fellowship. He was also an awardee of
Zhejiang Province Thousand Talents Senior Fellowship in China, Discovery Early
Career Researcher Award in Australia, Finistère Postdoctoral Fellowship in
France, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship. His
research interest lies in magnetic materials, nanomaterials, multifunctional
composites and applied physics. His work has been documented in more than 60
international refereed journal papers published in prestigious journals in
materials and physics.
Dr. Manh-Huong Phan
Dr. Manh-Huong Phan is an Associate
Professor of Physics at the University of South Florida, USA. He received B.S.,
M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Vietnam National University in 2000,
Chungbuk National University in 2003, and Bristol University in 2006,
respectively. Dr. Phan’s research
interests lie in the physics and applications of magnetic materials. He is a
leading expert in the area of functional magnetic materials and nanostructures
with magnetocaloric and magnetoimpedance effects for energy-efficient magnetic
refrigeration and smart sensor technologies. He has co-authored more than 200
peer-reviewed journal papers (h-index: 30), 4 review papers, and 5 book
chapters. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic
Materials (ISI journal, Impact factor: 1.8) and is an active reviewer for more
than 90 major international journals, with “Outstanding Referee” awards from
the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials in 2013 and 2015. He has
delivered plenary and invited talks at professional meetings on Magnetism and
Magnetic Materials (2007-present) and involved in
organizing international conferences on Nanomaterials, Energy and
Nanotechnology (2011-present).
Prof.
Hua-Xin Peng
Prof. Hua-Xin Peng
joined Zhejiang University as a Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Materials in
2014 under the Global Talent Recruitment Plan from the University of Bristol,
UK where he was a full Professor in the Advanced Composites Centre for
Innovation and Science (ACCIS) in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He
gained his PhD (1996) and MSc (1993) in composite materials in Harbin Institute
of Technology and BEng (1990) in Zhejiang University. He was the founding Deputy Director of the
Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information and worked as a Research
Fellow in the Materials Department at Oxford University (2001-2) and
Brunel University (1998-2000). His
research activities focus on nanomaterial through engineering to applications
and innovative design of composite microstructures for multi-functionalities.
The latter involves the development of ferromagnetic microwire (meta-) composites
for a range of ingenious engineering applications such as structural health
monitoring and microwave absorption. Prof. Peng is the founding Director of the
Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI) at Zhejiang University and
one of the founding Editors of the Elsevier journalComposites Communications
(COCO).
Situated at the forefront of
interdisciplinary research
on ferromagnetic microwires and their multifunctional composites, this book starts with a
comprehensive treatment of
the processing, structure, properties and applications of magnetic microwires. Special emphasis is placed on
the giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect, which forms the basis for developing high-performance magnetic sensors. After defining the key
criteria for selecting microwires for various types of GMI sensors, the book illustrates how ferromagnetic
microwires are employed
as functional fillers to create a new class of composite materials with
multiple functionalities for sensing and microwave applications. Readers are introduced to
state-of-the-art fabrication methods, microwave tunable properties, microwave
absorption and shielding behaviours, as well as the
metamaterial characteristics of these newly developed ferromagnetic microwire composites.
Lastly, potential engineering
applications are proposed so as to highlight the most promising perspectives, current challenges and
possible solutions.