A new two-dimensional coil system compensating X,Y,Z components of leakage field from an aperture of magnetic shields (abstract)

Abstract

Lightweight magnetic shields of high performance are required for the precise magnetic field measurements such as brain field measurement by SQUID magnetometers. Most of the present magnetic shielding rooms rely on ferromagnetic enclosures to isolate the area to be shielded from outside and, as a result, become heavy and expensive. In this paper, we propose a new method to compensate the leakage of noise field from an aperture of magnetic shields. The proposed method exploits the flux pattern just inside the aperture of the shielding body. Figure 1 depicts this method. Three flat coils mutually orthogonal and to be placed parallel inside the aperture are driven by the feedback signal to cancel each of three components detected by a three-axis fluxgate magnetometer. The important point of this method is that the coil system is flat unlike other active shielding system employing Helmholtz coils. Numerical results obtained for a superconductor vessel showed that the transverse field was attenuated by a factor of 100. Applying this method, the cylindrical shielding case of superconductor or of ferromagnet can be shortened with high shielding factor.