Fluxgate principle applied to a magnetic tunnel junction for weak magnetic field sensing

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1549-1553

  Breth, L ^a,b   Dimopoulos, T ^a   Schotter, J ^a   Rott, K ^c   Bruckl, H ^a   Suess, D ^b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency domain analysis; magnetometers; magnetoresistive devices

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETERS; MATLAB; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MAGNETORESISTIVE DEVICES; SECOND HARMONIC COMPONENT; SECOND HARMONIC DETECTION; WEAK MAGNETIC FIELDS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 79957873461     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2106114     Document Type: Article

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