Noise performance of magnetometers with resonant thin-film magnetoelectric sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2995-3001

  Jahns, Robert ^a   Greve, Henry ^a   Woltermann, Eric ^a   Quandt, Eckhard ^a   Knöchel, Reinhard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic field measurement; magnetoelectric (ME) sensors; magnetometers; noise

Indexed keywords

BIOMAGNETIC FIELDS; GIANT MAGNETOELECTRIC; MAGNETOELECTRIC (ME) SENSORS; MAGNETOELECTRIC SENSORS; NOISE; NOISE BEHAVIOR; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY VALUES; SIGNAL TO NOISE;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETERS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SENSORS;

EID: 79960411333     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2122410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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