• DocumentCode
    1048749
  • Title

    Sensor noise in low-level flux-gate magnetometers

  • Author

    Scouten, Donald C.

  • Author_Institution
    Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1972
  • fDate
    6/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    223
  • Lastpage
    231
  • Abstract
    The noise mechanism in a well-designed magnetometer is shown to be due to small-scale magnetic moments which are probably small volumes of the core material that are not oriented by the drive field. Design developments include the sense coil radius and the development of a drive waveform which yields considerably improved performance over the commonly used sine wave drive.
  • Keywords
    Magnetic noise; Magnetometers; Coils; Instruments; Magnetic cores; Magnetic materials; Magnetic noise; Magnetic sensors; Magnetometers; Magnetostriction; Noise measurement; Temperature sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.1972.1067284
  • Filename
    1067284