Porous InP as Piezoelectric Component in Magneto-Electric Composite Sensors

Abstract

We report on the fabrication of cheap piezoelectric porous InP templates by electrochemical etching and additional purely chemical post-etching and on the galvanic filling of the resulting nanopore array with Ni-Fe using a highly viscous electrolyte. The d14 component of porous InP is found to be around a stunning |60| pm/V. The deposited Ni-Fe shows a very narrow hysteresis loop with low coercive field strength (170 G) and very low remanence (0.005 emu).