PCB Coil Design Producing a Uniform Confined Magnetic Field

Peter A. Koss, Christopher Crawford, Georg Bison, Elise Wursten, Malgorzata Kasprzak, Nathal Severijns

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Abstract

We present a magnetic field confining coil with a sub-10-3 field uniformity over a large fraction of the coil. The structure is entirely made out of printed circuit boards (PCBs). The PCB design allows the path of the wires to be tailored to fit the required geometry. We measure the field uniformity with cesium magnetometers in a field range from 1 to 10 μT. Our application uses such a coil for an atomic magnetometry-based current controller.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7920330
JournalIEEE Magnetics Letters
Volume8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the FWO Fund for Scientific Research Flanders. Christopher Crawford acknowledges the Department of Energy contract DE-SC0008107. The authors would like to thank Allard Schnabel and Vira Bondar for useful comments on the manuscript.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2010-2012 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Electromagnetics
  • magnetic instruments
  • magnetic measurements
  • magnetic sensors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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