Thermomagnetic residual offset in integrated Hall plates

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 693-699

  Ruther, Patrick ^a   Schiller, Uwe ^a   Janke, Ralf ^b   Paul, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Micronas GmbH Freiburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hall sensor; Offset compensation; Thermomagnetic offset

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HALL EFFECT; HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SWITCHING;

HALL PLATES; HALL SENSORS; OFFSET COMPENSATION; THERMOMAGNETIC OFFSET;

THERMOELECTRICITY;

EID: 3042844390     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2003.820318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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