Novel coupling concept for five-contact vertical hall devices

2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2855-2858

  Kaufmann, T ^a   Purkl, F ^a   Ruther, P ^a   Paul, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

magnetic field sensors; offset reduction; serial coupling; Vertical Hall sensor

Indexed keywords

COUPLING SCHEME; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HALL DEVICES; HALL SENSITIVITY; IN-PLANE MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD SENSITIVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS; OFFSET REDUCTION; SERIAL COUPLING; VERTICAL HALL SENSORS;

ACTUATORS; HALL EFFECT TRANSDUCERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROSYSTEMS; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 80052107629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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