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- From: woyansky@ginny.ece.cmu.edu (George J. Woyansky)
- Subject: Re: PZT Excitation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.203125.5502@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:31:25 GMT
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- In article <24938@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
- >In article <1992Jul27.185909.19949@pbhyg.PacBell.COM>, rhsomer@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (Bob Somers) writes...
- >> Is there any material that acts as an insulator
- >>from magnetic forces? I was told some time ago
- >>that there is none, but perhaps some new material
- >>will do this.
- >> Bob Somers, Pacific Bell, 510-823-9010
- >
- >I'm becoming surprised at how often this question gets asked. An alloy
- >called Mu-Metal has very high "mu" and so can provide good magnetic
- >shielding in many situations. It is expensive and somewhat fragile -
- >it can't take alot of banging or extended vibration before the large
- >magnetic domains get shattered, ruining its shielding ability.
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- We too used Mu-metal for magnetic shielding (when I used to work in the real
- world). We surrounded a photomultiplier tube (end-on) with mu-metal and saw
- a VERY significant drop in the magnetic susceptibility of the tube. However,
- as mentioned, it doesn't tolerate a lot of metal-forming type processes...
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- George Woyansky
- Doctoral Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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