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121: 17: 248:, Permalloy is often used in applications that require efficient magnetic field generation and sensing. This nickel-iron magnetic alloy, typically composed of about 80% nickel and 20% iron, exhibits low energy loss, which is beneficial for improving the performance of magnetic sensors, 140:
were laid in the 1860s, it was found that the long conductors caused distortion which reduced the maximum signalling speed to only 10–12 words per minute. The right conditions for transmitting signals through cables without distortion were first worked out mathematically in 1885 by
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to reduce distortion. However, iron did not have high enough permeability to compensate a transatlantic-length cable. After a prolonged search, permalloy was discovered in 1914 by
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crystal structure with a lattice constant of approximately 0.355 nm in the vicinity of a nickel concentration of 80%. A disadvantage of permalloy is that it is not very
256:. Permalloy is also used in the production of magnetic shielding materials, which help protect electronic equipment from external magnetic interference. 228:, at 79% Ni, 16% Fe, and 5% Mo, is also well known for its high performance as a "soft" magnetic material, characterized by high permeability and low 158: 60: 506:"Measurement and Analysis of Magnetic Properties of Permalloy for Magnetic Shielding Devices under Different Temperature Environments" 224:
in 1940. At the time, when used in long distance copper telegraph lines, it allowed a tenfold increase in maximum line working speed.
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or workable, so applications requiring elaborate shapes, such as magnetic shields, are made of other high permeability alloys such as
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This method of cable compensation declined in the 1930s, but by World War II many other uses for Permalloy were found in the
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Other compositions of permalloy are available, designated by a numerical prefix denoting the weight percentage of
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in 1902 in Denmark that the cable could be compensated by wrapping it with iron wire, increasing the
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Gale, W.F.; Totemeier, T.C., eds. (2004). "Chapter 20 - Magnetic materials and their properties".
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can vary as much as 5% depending on the strength and the direction of an applied
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In addition to high permeability, its other magnetic properties are low
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of around 100,000, compared to several thousand for ordinary steel.
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Permalloy was initially developed in the early 20th century for
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material in electrical and electronic equipment, and also in
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History of the Atlantic Cable and Undersea Communications
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Submarine telegraph cable wrapped with permalloy tape.
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nickel
iron
alloy
Bell Telephone Laboratories
magnetic permeability
magnetic core
magnetic shielding
magnetic fields
relative permeability
coercivity
magnetostriction
anisotropic
magnetoresistance
resistivity
magnetic field
face-centered cubic
ductile
mu metal
transformer
laminations
recording heads

inductive
telegraph
submarine telegraph cables
Oliver Heaviside
Carl Emil Krarup
inductance
loaded line

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