Magnetic sensor system using asymmetric giant magnetoimpedance head

Seok Soo Yoon, Pratap Kollu, Dong Young Kim, Gun Woo Kim, Yongjun Cha, Cheol Gi Kim

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Abstract

Recently sensitive micro-magnetic sensors are strongly required in various technologies such as BT and IT. This paper gives the comprehensive analysis of the Asymmetric Giant MagnetoImpedance (AGMI) sensor's performance with negative feedback. Asymmetrical behavior of the GMI is required for linear magnetic field sensors as the sensitivity and linearity for magnetic field are the most important parameters in the practical application of GMI to magnetic sensors, and this has been realized by magnetic field annealing in amorphous ribbon. A novel AGMI sensor was developed and the performance of the sensor was carefully studied with and without applying negative feedback. The sensor uses 10 mm × 1 mm × 20 μm Co66Fe4Si15B 15 ribbon as a sensing element. On applying the negative feedback the sensor shows excellent linearity free from hysteresis, independent of temperature variations. The sensitivity AGMI sensor was found to be 0.27 V/Oe in dynamic range of -2 ∼ 2 Oe.

Original languageEnglish
Article number4957784
Pages (from-to)2727-2729
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume45
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2009

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the BK 21, KRF, and ETRI under Project 2006-S-074-02 to carry out the investigations.

Keywords

  • Amorphous soft magnetic ribbon
  • Magnetic sensor
  • Magnetoimpedance
  • Negative feedback

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