Measuring the 9-component magnetic permeability tensor of ferrites

Abstract

The magnetic permeability tensor of ferrite monocrystals can, in the general case, be represented as consisting of nine components [1]. In [2] the 6-component magnetic permeability tensor was obtained for a triaxial ferrite monocrystal with low magnetic anisotropy energy magnetized by a constant field in the crystallographic plane (110). In the general case of magnetization in an arbitrary crystallographic direction the tensor becomes a 9-component tensor [3]. In the context of the increasing application of ferrite monocrystals in microwave engineering the question of measuring such a tensor is of current scientific and practical interest. In the present article we propose a method for measuring the 9-component tensor for ferrite materials at microwave frequencies.