Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) Sensors From Basis to State-of-the-Art Applications /

• Main Authors: Reig, Candid (Author), Cardoso, Susana (Author), Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, 6
• Subjects: Engineering.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

Since the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect in 1988, spintronics has been presented as a new technology paradigm, awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007. Initially used in read heads of hard disk drives, and while disputing a piece of the market to the flash memories, GMR...

Table of Contents:

• Giant Magnetoresistance basis
• Noise in GMR and TMR sensors
• Resistive sensor interfacing
• GMR based sensors for IC current monitoring
• GMR sensors in automotive applications
• Compass applications using GMR sensors
• Commercial-off-the-shelf GMR based sensor on board OPTOS picosatellite
• High-spatial resolution GMR sensors – Part I Application in non-destructive evaluation
• High-spatial resolution GMR sensors – Part II Application in Biomedicine
• Magnetoresistive sensors for surface imaging.