Marmugi, L; Deans, C; Renzoni, F; (2019) Electromagnetic induction imaging with atomic magnetometers: Unlocking the low-conductivity regime. Applied Physics Letters , 115 (8) , Article 083503. 10.1063/1.5116811.

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Electromagnetic induction imaging with atomic magnetometers has disclosed unprecedented domains for imaging, from security screening to material characterization. However, applications to low-conductivity specimens—most notably for biomedical imaging—require sensitivity, stability, and tunability only speculated thus far. Here, we demonstrate contactless and noninvasive imaging down to 50 S m1 using a 50 fT/ ffiffiffiffiffiffi Hz p 87Rb radio frequency atomic magnetometer operating in an unshielded environment and near room temperature. Twodimensional images of test objects are obtained with a near-resonant imaging approach, which reduces the phase noise by a factor 172, with a projected sensitivity of 1 S m1 . Our results, an improvement of more than three orders of magnitude on previous imaging demonstrations, push electromagnetic imaging with atomic magnetometers to regions of interest for semiconductors, insulators, and biological tissues.

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