From Three-Contact Vertical Hall Elements to Symmetrized Vertical Hall Sensors with Low Offset

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 240, Issue , 2016, Pages 92-102

  Sander, Christian ^a   Vecchi, Maria Cristina ^b   Cornils, Martin ^b   Paul, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Micronas GmbH Freiburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMOS sensor; magnetic sensor; offset compensation; vertical Hall sensor

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; MAGNETIC SENSORS; MAGNETISM;

CMOS SENSORS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DRIVE CURRENTS; JUNCTION FIELD EFFECTS; OFFSET COMPENSATION; STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; VERTICAL HALL SENSORS;

HALL EFFECT TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84957547621     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2016.01.040     Document Type: Article

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