Permeability (electromagnetism)

Permeability (electromagnetism)
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In electromagnetism, permeability is the measure of the ability of a material to support the formation of a magnetic field within itself. In other words, it is the degree of magnetization that a material obtains in response to an applied magnetic field. Magnetic permeability is typically represented by the Greek letter . The term was coined in September, 1885 by Oliver Heaviside. The reciprocal of magnetic permeability is magnetic reluctivity. In SI units, permeability is measured in henries per meter (Hm1), or newtons per ampere squared (NA2). The permeability constant (0), Simplified comparison of permeabilities for: also known as the magnetic constant or the permeability of free space, ferromagnets (f), paramagnets(p), free is a measure of the amount of resistance encountered when forming a space(0) and diamagnets (d) magnetic field in a classical vacuum. The magnetic constant has the exact (defined)[1] value 0 = 4107 Hm1 1.2566370614106Hm1 or NA2). A closely related property of materials is magnetic susceptibility, which is a measure of the magnetization of a material in addition to the magnetization of the space occupied by the material.

Explanation
In electromagnetism, the auxiliary magnetic field H represents how a magnetic field B influences the organization of magnetic dipoles in a given medium, including dipole migration and magnetic dipole reorientation. Its relation to permeability is

where the permeability, , is a scalar if the medium is isotropic or a second rank tensor for an anisotropic medium. In general, permeability is not a constant, as it can vary with the position in the medium, the frequency of the field applied, humidity, temperature, and other parameters. In a nonlinear medium, the permeability can depend on the strength of the magnetic field. Permeability as a function of frequency can take on real or complex values. In

Permeability (electromagnetism) ferromagnetic materials, the relationship between B and H exhibits both non-linearity and hysteresis: B is not a single-valued function of H,[2] but depends also on the history of the material. For these materials it is sometimes useful to consider the incremental permeability defined as

This definition is useful in local linearizations of non-linear material behavior, for example in a NewtonRaphson iterative solution scheme that computes the changing saturation of a magnetic circuit. Permeability is the inductance per unit length. In SI units, permeability is measured in henrys per metre (Hm1= J/(A2m)= N A2). The auxiliary magnetic field H has dimensions current per unit length and is measured in units of amperes per metre (A m1). The product H thus has dimensions inductance times current per unit area (HA/m2). But inductance is magnetic flux per unit current, so the product has dimensions magnetic flux per unit area. This is just the magnetic field B, which is measured in webers (volt-seconds) per square-metre (Vs/m2), or teslas (T). B is related to the Lorentz force on a moving charge q:

The charge q is given in coulombs (C), the velocity v in meters per second (m/s), so that the force F is in newtons (N):

H is related to the magnetic dipole density. A magnetic dipole is a closed circulation of electric current. The dipole moment has dimensions current times area, units ampere square-metre (Am2), and magnitude equal to the current around the loop times the area of the loop.[3] The H field at a distance from a dipole has magnitude proportional to the dipole moment divided by distance cubed,[4] which has dimensions current per unit length.

Relative permeability and magnetic susceptibility

Relative permeability, sometimes denoted by the symbol r, is the ratio of the permeability of a specific medium to the permeability of free space, 0:

where 0= 4107NA2. In terms of relative permeability, the magnetic susceptibility is m, a dimensionless quantity, is sometimes called volumetric or bulk susceptibility, to distinguish it from p (magnetic mass or specific susceptibility) and M (molar or molar mass susceptibility).

Diamagnetism
Diamagnetism is the property of an object which causes it to create a magnetic field in opposition of an externally applied magnetic field, thus causing a repulsive effect. Specifically, an external magnetic field alters the orbital velocity of electrons around their nuclei, thus changing the magnetic dipole moment in the direction opposing the external field. Diamagnets are materials with a magnetic permeability less than (a relative permeability less than 1). Consequently, diamagnetism is a form of magnetism that a substance exhibits only in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. It is generally a quite weak effect in most materials, although superconductors exhibit a strong effect.

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Paramagnetism
Paramagnetism is a form of magnetism which occurs only in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. Paramagnetic materials are attracted to magnetic fields, hence have a relative magnetic permeability greater than one (or, equivalently, a positive magnetic susceptibility). The magnetic moment induced by the applied field is linear in the field strength and rather weak. It typically requires a sensitive analytical balance to detect the effect. Unlike ferromagnets, paramagnets do not retain any magnetization in the absence of an externally applied magnetic field, because thermal motion causes the spins to become randomly oriented without it. Thus the total magnetization will drop to zero when the applied field is removed. Even in the presence of the field there is only a small induced magnetization because only a small fraction of the spins will be oriented by the field. This fraction is proportional to the field strength and this explains the linear dependency. The attraction experienced by ferromagnets is non-linear and much stronger, so that it is easily observed, for instance, in magnets on one's refrigerator.

Gyromagnetism
For gyromagnetic media (see Faraday rotation) the magnetic permeability response to an alternating electromagnetic field in the microwave frequency domain is treated as a non-diagonal tensor expressed by:[5]

Values for some common materials

The following table should be used with caution as the permeability of ferromagnetic materials varies greatly with field strength. For example 4% Si steel has an initial relative permeability (at or near 0T) of 2,000 and a maximum of 35,000[6] and, indeed, the relative permeability of any material at a sufficiently high field strength tends to 1.

Magnetic susceptibility and permeability data for selected materials

Medium Susceptibility Permeability [H/m] Relative Permeability /0 Magnetic field m (volumetric SI) 1.25 10102 2.5102 1,000,000 80,000 20,000 50,000 8,000 1.0102 5.0103 2.0105 8.0104 >8.0104 8.75104 1.25104 8,000 4,000 [] [] [] at 0.002 T at 0.002 T 100kHz ~ 1MHz[citation needed] 100kHz ~ 1MHz at 0.002 T at 0.002 T [] at 0.5 T at 0.5 T at 0.002 T Frequency max.

Metglas Nanoperm Mu-metal Mu-metal Permalloy Electrical steel Ferrite (nickel zinc) Ferrite (manganese zinc) Steel Nickel Neodymium magnet Platinum

100kHz 10kHz

[] []

16640 640 (or more) 100 []

[] 100 600 1.05 [7]

1.2569701106

1.000265

Permeability (electromagnetism)
[]

4
1.000022 1.00000043 4 10^-7 [8] 1.00000037 1 [10] [11] [] [9]

Aluminum Wood Air Concrete Vacuum Hydrogen Teflon Sapphire Copper

2.22105

1.2566650106

0 2.2109 []

1.2566371106 (0) 1.2566371106 1.2567106 []

1.0000000 1.0000 0.99999976 0.999994

2.1107 6.4106 [] or 9.2106 8.0106 1.66104 1

1.2566368106 1.2566290106

Water Bismuth Superconductors

1.2566270106

0.999992 0.999834

A good magnetic core material must have high permeability.[12] For passive magnetic levitation a relative permeability below 1 is needed (corresponding to a negative susceptibility). Permeability varies with magnetic field. Values shown above are approximate and valid only at the magnetic fields shown. Moreover, they are given for a zero frequency; in practice, the permeability is generally a function of the frequency. When frequency is considered the permeability can be complex, corresponding to the in phase and out of phase response. Note that the magnetic constant has an exact value in SI units (that

Magnetisation curve for ferromagnets (and ferrimagnets) and corresponding permeability

is, there is no uncertainty in its value), because the definition of the ampere fixes its value to 4107H/m exactly.

Complex permeability
A useful tool for dealing with high frequency magnetic effects is the complex permeability. While at low frequencies in a linear material the magnetic field and the auxiliary magnetic field are simply proportional to each other through some scalar permeability, at high frequencies these quantities will react to each other with some lag time.[13] These fields can be written as phasors, such that

where

is the phase delay of

from

. Understanding permeability as the ratio of the magnetic field to the

auxiliary magnetic field, the ratio of the phasors can be written and simplified as

so that the permeability becomes a complex number. By Euler's formula, the complex permeability can be translated from polar to rectangular form,

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The ratio of the imaginary to the real part of the complex permeability is called the loss tangent,

which provides a measure of how much power is lost in a material versus how much is stored.

References
[2] Jackson (1975), p. 190 [3] p. 182 eqn. (5.57) [4] Jackson (1975) p. 182 eqn. (5.56) [6] G.W.C. Kaye & T.H. Laby, Table of Physical and Chemical Constants, 14th ed, Longman [8] Boylestad, Introductory circuit analysis, 12th edition, p.464 [9] B. D. Cullity and C. D. Graham (2008), Introduction to Magnetic Materials, 2nd edition, 568 pp., p.16 [11] exactly, by definition [13] M. Getzlaff, Fundamentals of magnetism, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008.

External links
Electromagnetism (http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/0sn/ch11/ch11.html) - a chapter from an online textbook Relative Permeability (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solids/ferro.html) Soil Permeability Test (http://www.denichsoiltest.com) Magnetic Properties of Materials (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Workshop/advice/coils/mu/)

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