High Sensitivity Planar Hall Effect Magnetic Field Gradiometer for Measurements in Millimeter Scale Environments

Hariharan Nhalil; Moty Schultz; Shai Amrusi; Asaf Grosz; Lior Klein

doi:10.3390/mi13111898

High Sensitivity Planar Hall Effect Magnetic Field Gradiometer for Measurements in Millimeter Scale Environments

Hariharan Nhalil, Moty Schultz, Shai Amrusi, Asaf Grosz, Lior Klein

Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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We report a specially designed magnetic field gradiometer based on a single elliptical planar Hall effect (PHE) sensor, which allows measuring magnetic field at nine different positions in a 4 mm length scale. The gradiometer detects magnetic field gradients with equivalent gradient magnetic noises of ∼958, ∼192, ∼51, and ∼26 nT/m√ Hz (pT/mm√Hz) at 0.1, 1, 10, and 50 Hz, respectively. The performance of the gradiometer is tested in ambient conditions by measuring the field gradient induced by electric currents driven in a long straight wire. This gradiometer is expected to be highly useful for the measurement of magnetic field gradients in confined areas for its small footprint, low noise, scalability, simple design, and low costs.

Original language	English
Article number	1898
Journal	Micromachines
Volume	13
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13111898
State	Published - 2 Nov 2022

Keywords

gradiometer
magnetic sensor
planar hall effect

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Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering

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