Permeability enhancement by induced displacement current in magnetic material with high permittivity

Abstract Based on a analytical model, this paper reveals that instead of demagnetization, the induced displacement current in a Mn–Zn ferrite core due to its high permittivity can produce a magnetic field that effectively adds to the incident magnetic field in the low-loss frequency region. This leads to a resultant magnetic field being larger than incident field in magnitude, and results in measured permeability being higher than its intrinsic value in the low-loss frequency region. It is also found that such effect is more pronounced in large core than in small core. With increasing frequency and consequently the core being more lossy, the induced magnetic field due to both conductivity and imaginary part of complex permittivity demagnetize the magnetic material and counteracts the incident magnetic field. In consequence, the measured real part of complex permeability becomes smaller than its intrinsic value. The larger the core dimension, the smaller the real part of complex permeability is. These conclusions based on the numerical analysis are in good agreement with the experimental observation in the aspect of change tendency of permeability versus frequency.