Integrated Semiconductor Magnetic Field Sensors

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 1986, Pages 1107-1132

  Baltes, Henry P ^a   Popovic, Radivoje S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Landis and Gyr Communications Corp   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR;

COMPUTERS, MICROCOMPUTER; HALL EFFECT TRANSDUCERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS; MAGNETIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

SENSORS;

EID: 0022768090     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1986.13597     Document Type: Article

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