Simulation and Experimental Study on Piezoelectric Geophone Core Based on PMN-PT

Piezoelectric geophones are vibration detectors that convert vibration acceleration signals into electrical signals. High performance piezoelectric materials can improve the sensitivity of piezoelectric geophone and meet the need of high-resolution seismic data acquisition. The comprehensive performance of relaxor piezoelectric single crystal PMN-PT is more superior than PZT, and it is potential to be applied to high sensitivity and small volume geophones. In this paper, the central compressed geophone core model based on PMN-PT was established and theoretically analyzed. Then, a multiphysics simulation model was set up in COMSOL for simulation calculation. Finally, experimental verification was carried out. The results show that using PMN-PT in geophone core design can improve the sensitivity of the model by more than 120% compared with the traditional PZT material. The PMN-PT has the potential to be applied to high sensitivity and small volume geophones.