Imaging damage in steel using a diamond magnetometer
arXiv:2011.02459 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.024015
Abstract
We demonstrate a simple, robust and contactless method for non-destructive testing of magnetic materials such as steel. This uses a fiber-coupled magnetic sensor based on nitrogen vacancy centers (NVC) in diamond without magnetic shielding. Previous NVC magnetometry has sought a homogeneous bias magnetic field, but in our design we deliberately applied an inhomogeneous magnetic field. As a consequence of our experimental set-up we achieve a high spatial resolution: 1~mm in the plane parallel and 0.1~mm in the plane perpendicular to the surface of the steel. Structural damage in the steel distorts this inhomogeneous magnetic field and by detecting this distortion we reconstruct the damage profile through quantifying the shifts in the NVC Zeeman splitting. This works even when the steel is covered by a non-magnetic material. The lift-off distance of our sensor head from the surface of 316 stainless steel is up to 3~mm.
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