Effective use of miniature, multi-point, field-based current sensors without magnetic cores

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1426-1433

  Olson, Erik R ^a   Lorenz, Robert D ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Field decoupling; Field detector; Giant magnetoresistance; Integrated current sensor

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEETINGS; ARRAY ELEMENTS; CROSS-COUPLED; CURRENT SENSOR (CUS); GALVANIC ISOLATION; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; MAGNETIC (CE); MAGNETORESISTIVE; SMALL SIZE;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SENSOR ARRAYS; SENSORS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 47849090946     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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