Measurement and analysis of noise sources in giant magnetoresistive sensors Up to 6 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 II, 2002, Pages 3545-3555

  Jury, Jason C ^a,b   Klaassen, Klaas B ^a,c   Van Peppen, Jack C L ^a,c   Wang, Shan X ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant magnetoresistive sensor noise; Magnetic thermal fluctuations; Nonlinear resistance thermal noise; Thermal electric model

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 0036756857     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802706     Document Type: Article

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