Integrating giant magneto-resistive (GMR) field detectors for high bandwidth current sensing in power electronic modules

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1260-1267

  Schneider, Patrick E ^a   Horio, Masafumi ^b   Lorenz, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Giant magneto resistance (gmr); Integrated current measurement

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING MATERIALS; CURRENT CARRYING CONDUCTORS; CURRENT SENSING; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INTEGRATED CURRENTS; POWER ELECTRONIC MODULES; POWER ELECTRONICS MODULES; SMALL AREA;

BANDWIDTH; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ENERGY CONVERSION; GALVANOMAGNETIC EFFECTS; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 78650199316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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