Electrical isolators based on tunneling magnetoresistance technology

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 4011-4014

  Reig, Càndid ^a   Cubells Beltrán, María Dolores ^a   Ramírez, Diego ^a   Cardoso, Susana ^b   Freitas, Paulo P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INESC   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Analog isolator; Linear sensor; Magnetic tunnel junction; Magnetoresistance

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; TUNNELLING MAGNETORESISTANCE;

ANALOG ISOLATOR; ELECTRICAL ISOLATORS; LINEAR MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; LINEAR SENSOR; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; SINGLE STRUCTURE; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE; WHEATSTONE BRIDGES;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 70350424638     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002384     Document Type: Article

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