Magnetic Sensors - Principles and Applns by K. Kuang

By K. Kuang

Show description

Read or Download Magnetic Sensors - Principles and Applns PDF

Best nonfiction_7 books

Consumers and nanotechnology : deliberative processes and methodologies

Content material: Pt. 1. technological know-how and democracy -- pt. 2. Citizen-oriented deliberative methods -- pt. three. Stakeholder-oriented deliberative procedures -- pt. four. a facet of a extra democratic technological know-how : the way forward for deliberative strategies on nanotechnology and different rising applied sciences

Agile Service Development: Combining Adaptive Methods and Flexible Solutions

Economies around the world have developed into being principally service-oriented economies. shoppers not simply need a printer or a motor vehicle, they really ask for a printing provider or a mobility carrier. furthermore, service-oriented companies more and more take advantage of new units, applied sciences and infrastructures.

Hearing – From Sensory Processing to Perception

Listening to – From Sensory Processing to conception provides the papers of the most recent “International Symposium on Hearing”, a gathering held each 3 years concentrating on psychoacoustics and the study of the physiological mechanisms underlying auditory notion. The court cases supply an updated document at the prestige of the sector of study into listening to and auditory capabilities.

Additional resources for Magnetic Sensors - Principles and Applns

Sample text

1 Spatial resolution Besides the lack of an excitation coil, one of the main advantages of wire-core fluxgates is the diameter of the wire, usually very narrow (several tens of µm). A narrow diameter is advantageous not only for miniaturization, but also for improvement of spatial resolution in magnetic field measurement. Let us consider, for instance, a magnetic field HZ with constant gradient along the x direction, as shown in Fig. 5. Parallel fluxgates must use either a ring or a racetrack core to reduce the demagnetizing factor and compensate voltage peaks for zero measured fields.

This method, however, cannot be used for coil-less fluxgates, since it has not a pick-up coil available for the generation of a compensating field (and if we add a compensation coil the sensor would not be coil-less anymore). Therefore, the linearity of the coil-less fluxgate is an extremely important parameter, because the sensor will be used in an open loop mode. Fortunately, the coil-less fluxgate has a large linear range. 5% of full-scale non-linearity error in a ±50 µT measurement range. 2% of full scale if we consider a ± 40 µT range.

Moreover, the operative frequency for a coil-less fluxgate is around 10 kHz, whereas MI sensors are operated at MHz range. This means that the physical phenomena occurring within the wire are substantially different. , 2003) whereas in coil-less fluxgates the external field causes linear shifting of a circumferential BH loop, giving rise to even harmonics. The difference between sensors becomes evident when considering their output characteristics. Coil-less fluxgates, have a second harmonic, which linearly depends on the external field with antisymmetrical characteristic.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.29 of 5 – based on 9 votes