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- From: rb9a@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola)
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- Subject: Re: PZT Excitation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.123849.20613@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 12:38:49 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.
- >
- >I have used it to shield image intensifier tubes from stray magnetic
- >fields of many KGauss with no problems. Apparently, this stuff is
- >well known among HEP grad students, but not in the general physics
- >community. Well, I guess we all don't play in strong magnetic
- >fields all day for the fun of it.
- >
- >-Scott
- >--------------------
-
- Well, the HEP are neither the first nor the main users of high magnetic
- fields and magnetic shielding. An important area is electron spectroscopy,
- widely used for surface analysis, where you want residual fields of
- milligauss. Look at Sevier's Electron Spectroscopy for a discussion of
- this. In other applications in atomic or solid state physics
- people fields of microgauss or smaller.
- For kGauss fields, it is better to use iron or other materials
- because Mu-metal saturates.
-
- R. Baragiola
- Engineering Physics
- Univ. Virginia
-